AnkerMake Pushes Consumer 3D Printing Forward as Anker's Sub-Brand Portfolio Expands

Anker’s consumer 3D printing line, AnkerMake, has been one of the quietest side businesses under the parent brand. While Anker is best known for charging cables and GaN power supplies, AnkerMake has spent the past three years building out a consumer FDM line that competes with Creality, Bambu Lab, and Prusa at the entry and mid-range end of the market. The 2025-2026 push has carried that effort from a niche side project into a global retail presence.

What AnkerMake has shipped so far

• AnkerMake M5 (Sept 2023): flagship consumer FDM printer at $799 with 500 mm/s print speed and a built-in camera.
• AnkerMake M5C (Oct 2024): more accessible model at $499 that trimmed the extruder and the camera to hit the price point; the M5C has become AnkerMake’s strongest seller to date.
• AnkerMake V6120 (CES 2024): color resin printer for hobbyists at $699 with a 6K monochrome LCD.

What is new in 2025-2026

• AnkerMake has added direct retail in Best Buy and MediaMarkt, expanding beyond Amazon and the Anker storefront.
• The M5C software stack gained Wi-Fi connectivity, camera monitoring, and over-the-air firmware updates, closing one of the most visible gaps versus Bambu Lab.
• AnkerMake now ships to more than 80 countries, up from about 30 at the M5C launch in October 2024.
• AnkerMake has begun talking about a new flagship, tentatively labelled the M6, with a release targeted for late 2026.

Why it matters

The consumer 3D printer market has been quietly consolidating around a handful of Chinese brands: Creality, Bambu Lab, AnkerMake, and a long tail of smaller players. AnkerMake is the only one with the parent-brand retail footprint to push 3D printing onto Best Buy, Costco, and Walmart shelves in the US, and onto MediaMarkt shelves in Europe. The category is still small (around $1 billion globally by most industry estimates) but is growing at a high double-digit pace as 3D printing moves from hobbyist workbench into mainstream maker, education, and small-business use.

For international buyers, the practical story is that AnkerMake is the easiest Chinese 3D printer brand to buy and to return: same Amazon-style fulfilment, same Anker warranty, same firmware update pipeline as the rest of Anker’s consumer electronics. That retail and service moat is harder to replicate than a faster print head.