MakerBot: Powered by UltiMaker
The 3D Printer Superstore is a Certified MakerBot Specialist Partner. Providing full service and training solutions for professionals, consumers and educators in universities, secondary and primary schools. Our dedicated team can show you how to get the most out of your investment and how best incorporate 3D printing and 3D scanning into school STEM educational curriculum.
In this new era of 3D printing, our specialist status is more valuable than ever. It ensures that when you invest in a MakerBot or UltiMaker solution, you are backed by a team with direct lines to the manufacturer and deep expertise across the entire combined portfolio.
The Leader in 3D Printing Education
Investing in MakerBot means acquiring a platform built specifically for classroom success. As the education arm of UltiMaker, it offers the most complete solution for schools:
Complete Curriculum: Solves the "how to teach" problem with access to over 600 lesson plans and the only ISTE-certified teacher and student training programmes.
Classroom Safety: Designed for student safety with fully enclosed build chambers and integrated particulate filters to ensure clean air quality.
Seamless Management: MakerBot CloudPrint™ allows teachers to manage student print queues, slice files, and monitor jobs remotely from a single dashboard.
Workhorse Reliability: Engineered for high success rates with heated build plates and smart sensors that pause prints to prevent failures, ensuring students spend time learning, not troubleshooting.
For educators, the MakerBot Sketch series is more than just a 3D printer; it is a complete classroom ecosystem designed to lower the barrier to entry for STEM education. As an UltiMaker brand, MakerBot remains the gold standard for K-12 and Higher Education, focusing on safety, reliability, and curriculum integration.
Why Schools Choose the MakerBot Sketch:
The Complete Classroom Loop: The Sketch ecosystem goes beyond hardware. It includes access to over 600 lesson plans, ISTE-certified teacher and student training programmes, and MakerBot CloudPrint™ for seamless remote classroom management.
Safety First: Designed for the classroom, Sketch printers feature fully enclosed chambers and built-in particulate filters, ensuring a safe learning environment for students of all ages.
Scalable Solutions: From the standard Sketch for individual projects to the Sketch Large for bigger ideas and the new Sketch Sprint for rapid turnaround, the platform scales to fit the needs of any makerspace or laboratory.
Reliable Performance: With heated build plates and a focus on PLA and Tough PLA materials, the Sketch series delivers high success rates, ensuring students spend time designing and learning, not troubleshooting.
Professional: The UltiMaker Method Series Industrial Performance on the Desktop
For engineers, designers, and manufacturers, the UltiMaker Method series (formerly MakerBot Method) bridges the critical gap between desktop ease and industrial capability. Built on the DNA of Stratasys—the world leader in industrial additive manufacturing—the Method series is engineered to print manufacturing-grade materials with dimensional accuracy that standard desktop printers cannot match.
Why Professionals Choose the UltiMaker Method:
Patented Heated Chamber: Unlike standard heated beds, the Method X utilises a Circulating Heated Chamber (up to 100°C). This allows for the printing of genuine industrial-grade ABS, Nylon, and PC-ABS without warping, yielding parts that are structurally superior.
Unlimited Geometrical Freedom: With high-performance dual extrusion and the use of Stratasys SR-30 soluble support material, you can print complex geometries and internal cavities that would be impossible with breakaway supports.
Composite Ready: The Method X Carbon Fibre edition is optimised for printing with carbon fibre-reinforced nylon, producing parts with the strength-to-weight ratio of metal—ideal for jigs, fixtures, and end-use robotic effectors.
Guaranteed Accuracy: The ultra-rigid metal frame and industrial architecture ensure dimensional accuracy of ±0.2mm, making it a reliable tool for verification and functional prototyping.
