Formlabs

Form Studio 1 is a professional resin 3D printer from Formlabs that starts at $699, bringing the company's stereolithography hardware into price territory previously dominated by hobbyist machines. The printer costs roughly a quarter of the $2,625 Form 4, and Formlabs is pitching it at people printing miniatures, scale models and props at home , a notable shift for a company whose customers have historically been dental labs, engineering teams, and manufacturing shops. Formlabs has nearly 200,000 printers in service, mostly priced at $2,500 or more , which makes a sub-$700 professional-grade machine a meaningful expansion of its addressable market. The hardware is built around a new print engine using a custom lens array and 28 LEDs with 35 micron pixels, and Formlabs says most jobs finish in under two hours. The bigger story may be safety and placement: the Form Studio 1 ships on November 16 and carries UL GREENGUARD Gold certification when paired with Alpha Resins and the VOC Extractor , meaning it is cleared for use in offices, classrooms, and homes without a dedicated ventilation setup. Six new Alpha Resins start at $29 per liter and are rated for long-term skin contact under ISO 10993, and an optional Resin Tank Pro supports third-party materials for users who want to stay outside the Formlabs ecosystem. Formlabs was founded in 2011 by Max Lobovsky, David Cranor, and Natan Linder, MIT graduates who set out to build a lower-cost professional stereolithography solution , and the company is still led by Lobovsky as CEO out of Somerville, Massachusetts. The launch lands alongside a companion Form Studio Wash+Cure post-processing unit, a PreForm mobile app, and the broader opening of Formlabs' on-demand parts service, signaling a push to make the full workflow accessible to a wider base of creators, product designers, and small studios rather than just enterprise buyers.