Update: Prusa has released a new version of the MK4, the MK4S. It's an incremental upgrade but adds a lot of great features.

You can get a smooth-working machine with useful features once reserved for high-end models. Starting at just $250, these are ...

Whether you need to scan family photos, piles of documents, or expense receipts, a scanner out there is built for the task.

Still, it's hard not to be excited by the tremendous potential future for mainstream 3D scanning and printing that the Sense represents. Edgar Alvarez and Daniel Orren contributed to this report.

If and when the Fuel3D scanner comes out—especially if production can scale up without quintupling the price or something—it could fill in that missing second half of the 3D-printing equation ...

Still, you probably have a 3D printer if you want to make this, so why not use it? If you want to go more complex, you might try this 3D printed scanner. Or, try OpenScan.

3D printers are becoming more and more accessible, but there’s still one big hurdle to using them: unless you know how to create digital objects, there’s not much to print. But Matterform is ...

As desktop 3D printers and scanners become more common, the question of copyright will become more prevalent. Until there are clear-cut rules, use some discretion before scanning and printing a ...

For creating 3D printer files, your options include smartphone apps or expensive standalone scanners.

If you can 3D-scan it, you can 3D-print it – and Matter and Form has announced a super-versatile new way to do so. The Three system creates photorealistic, high-detail, full-color 3D scans of ...

The 3D Scan-to-Print Web App is a new Kickstarter project by the Volumental group that aims to turn any depth sensing camera, such as a Kinect, into a web connected 3D scanner.