Hardware and Setup

Buying for a Classroom Is a Different Problem Than Buying for Yourself The buyer guides aimed at hobbyists assume one user, one printer, and patience for the occasional failed print. A teacher buying printers for a STEM lab is solving a fundamentally different problem: 25 students rotating through the lab in 50-minute periods, parallel print…

Why the Klipper-vs-Marlin Decision Still Matters in 2026 For most of the last decade, the question “should I run Klipper or Marlin?” was answered by the printer you bought. Marlin shipped on essentially every consumer FDM machine until Bambu Lab made proprietary firmware mainstream and Klipper migrated from a niche enthusiast project to the default…