The 2026 edition of our  AMA: Energy online conference  returns on April 30th. Register now! Market intelligence firm CONTEXT has published its Q4 2025 analysis of global 3D printer hardware shipments, with growth concentrated at opposite ends of the price spectrum. The numbers point to a market that has stopped growing uniformly and started reorganizing around two distinct poles, leaving the middle segments in a contraction that has now extended across multiple consecutive quarters. Aggregate system revenues rose 25% Y/Y for the quarter, and the bulk of that movement came from the bottom. Entry-level systems, priced below $2,500, saw shipments rise 47% year-on-year in Q4, producing a 53% revenue increase. For the full year, entry-level units grew 26%.  Almost all of that entry-level volume originated in China.…