About

We help people buy used 3D printers without getting caught out. Name the one you’re after, like a Prusa MK4S, a Bambu Lab P1S, an Ender 3 V3 SE or an Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra, and there’s a page for it. Each one tells you the printer’s story, how it moves and what it prints on, where it records its print hours, what wears out, what should come with it and what to check before you buy.

Some buyers want a first printer for the desk. Others are adding a resin machine for miniatures or moving up to an enclosed CoreXY. What owners know about these printers is spread across maker wikis, help pages and forum threads, and a raw eBay search gives you none of it. So we keep 30 model pages in one place, write down the things that catch used buyers out (a worn nozzle, a scratched sheet, a printer still tied to the seller’s account, a tired resin screen, a toolhead that wasn’t locked for shipping) and pick the listings we’d buy.

We don’t sell printers. No affiliate links. We earn nothing. We only recommend what we’d buy, and we’d rather you buy used. We run no analytics or tracking cookies, and we’re not affiliated with any printer maker. See how we work for how the pages are researched and our disclosure for how links, picks and photos work.

First Layer is part of allbutnew, a set of shops for secondhand gear. Got a printer to sell? The “Get an offer” link on every model page sends it to our 3D printer expert, who replies by email.