If you’re looking to get into the wonderful world of at-home 3D printing, you must start by making a significant choice: Printing from a plastic spool of material or building your models from liquid resin. FDM printers tend to be cheaper and easier to use, which is why they make up four of our top five best 3D printer picks. Anycubic has created a simple workflow to make that process as easy as possible: The new, $299 Anycubic Photon M3 is a high-quality model that offers a usable amount of build space and remarkably good prints. With the Photon M3, I finished my first test print less than an hour after I took the printer out of the box. Anycubic even includes resin filters, a set of gloves, a scraper to get prints off the bed and masks in the box – though you’ll want to upgrade to a proper respirator if you’re sensitive to fumes like I am. That’s not a fault of this particular printer so much as it is the nature of resin printing. Anycubic includes a copy of Photon Workshop on a thumb drive with the printer, and it’s a reasonably comprehensive way of loading models and generating supports before prepping them for the printer – which, by the way, exclusively prints via thumb drive.

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