Creality, Bambu, Prusa and Anker are all pushing to speed up how quickly consumer 3D printers can create plastic models out of molten filament. They’re now up to 12 times faster than the ...

Speed in 3D printing hasn’t been super important to everyone. Certainly, users value speed. But some value quality even more highly, and if gaining quality means giving up speed, then so be it.

Overnight, 3D printing had machines that printed stunning models at least twice as fast as other printers. The speed race was on, and other companies started to respond in earnest.