Creality pushes multi-colour and big prints to affordable prices
Creality has added three new printers, and together they push multi-colour and large-format printing to prices most people can actually consider.
The K3: faster multi-colour
Creality has opened pre-orders for the K3, its flagship K-series printer, from US$849. The headline feature is a four-nozzle system Creality calls KliTek, which swaps nozzles in about five seconds. That targets the two things that have held multi-colour FDM back for a while: slow colour changes and wasted filament. Creality says print times can be up to 80% shorter, and the machine can expand to more materials. It was an IFA Innovation Awards 2026 honouree.
Bigger and cheaper
Alongside the K3, Creality launched the Ender-3 V3 Mega, a large-format printer aimed at small-batch production and TPU printing, at an early-bird US$669. And the Ender-3 V3 Neo, a compact machine for first-time and entry-level buyers, at US$329. Both were available to order from 15 October in the US and Europe.
What it means for you
Multi-colour filament printing is getting faster and cheaper, and affordable large-format machines are widening what hobbyists and small businesses can make at home. None of that changes the maths on functional parts: if you need a bracket in ASA, a gear in carbon nylon or a run of fifty clips in TPU, a print service still beats the learning curve, the material cost and the time on the machine. See our materials or get a price.
Source: PRNewswire, 3DPrint.com. Pricing is US and varies by market.