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Set name: Centauri 2 Combo
Features
- 4-Color Printing with CANVAS: Create vibrant multi-color models effortlessly with CANVAS 4-color printing. Independent motors, instant color switching, RFID filament recognition, and auto refill work together to deliver smooth color transitions without complicated setup, making colorful printing easier for beginners and creators
- Start Printing with Confidence: Full auto calibration and smart pre-print checks simplify setup, while 22 intelligent sensors monitor every print in real time. From first layer to final result, enjoy consistent printing with less manual adjustment, making it ideal for beginners and experienced makers alike.
- Designed for Speed: Experience faster creation with a high-speed CoreXY system reaching up to 500mm/s and 20,000mm/s2 acceleration. The rigid aluminum frame and precision linear guides maintain smooth, stable motion, helping deliver accurate prints even at high speeds
- Smoother, Sharper, Smarter: From the first layer to the final detail, intelligent calibration, vibration compensation, and precise extrusion control help produce clean surfaces, sharp edges, and consistent resultseven on complex models
- A Seamless Workflow from Idea to Print: Simplify your entire workflow with the ELEGOO ecosystem. Discover ready-to-print models on Nexprint, prepare projects with ELEGOOSlicer, and control your printer remotely through ELEGOO Matrix app. Create, manage, and print with ease.
- Made for Easier Everyday Printing: A user-friendly 5-inch touchscreen simplifies operation, while the magnetic printhead cover, semi-automatic belt tensioner, and nozzle wiper make maintenance quicker and keep your printer running smoothly
Description
To set you up for high-quality prints from the very start, Auto Z offset precisely calibrates nozzle height, ensuring reliable first-layer adhesion. Unwanted vibrations are neutralized for flawless detail and pristine surface quality, eliminating ringing and ghosting during fast prints. Pressure Advance Calibration optimizes extrusion for smoother surfaces and sharper details. High-temperature nozzle and heated bed improve extrusion stability and first-layer adhesion, while advanced cooling helps prevent warping for consistent print success. 3D Printer Starter Kit Filament Storage Kit PLA Filament PLA Plus Filament Rapid PETG Filament TPU 95A Filament ASA Filament ELEGOO develops the high quality, cutting-edge and user-friendly 3D printers, and provides the dedicated servce in the consumer 3D printing industry. At ELEGOO, we go beyond being a 3D printer company. We recognize the crucial role businesses play in fostering a sustainable ecosystem. We believe in the power of innovation and sustainability to shape a better world.
Brand: ELEGOO
Material: Metal
Product Dimensions: 19.69"D x 18.9"W x 23.23"H
Item Weight: 15 kg
Compatible Devices: Laptop, Personal Computer, Smartphone, Tablet
Product Dimensions: 19.69 x 18.9 x 23.23 inches
Item Weight: 33 pounds
Item model number: Centauri 2 Combo
Date First Available: May 8, 2026
Manufacturer: ELEGOO
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Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2026 by Gavin Hulse
Set name: Centauri Carbon
My original feeling towards this product has changed over the last several months of interaction with their technical support. The printer was replaced by them after 2 months of diagnostic work, some of which was difficult for me to perform (I am an engineer, but my hands and eyes have deteriorated over the last several years). The first unit died after 6 days (of a LOT of printing) with the "cannot communicate with hot end..." messages. I live on the west coast of USA and their technical support does not respond until the next morning. Fortunately for me, I am normally awake from 1:00 PM to 4:00 AM so we were in the "same time-zone." I would receive responses within 18 hours of my email. They shipped me a newly designed USB-C cable and the carrier board that it plugs into on the extruder mechanism. It did not help. They then said I will need to replace the motherboard. This took 7 weeks of interactions and testing (I have approximately 30 emails from/to them) to get to that point. 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Hint: ALWAYS keep shipping boxes for 1 year after your purchase (write the date of disposal on the outside of the box and save it). They received the unit quickly (it was shipped to Las Vegas) and they sent out the replacement within 3 days. The printer was shipped form Sacramento (northern California). The replacement came with a new version of the USB-C cable and a newer version of the mother board. It was missing replacement nozzles that my original purchase had (and I unfortunately shipped back with the first printer). The setup worked perfectly. However, I must have used some bad filament and I had a serious jam in the print head (it started with a tangle on the reel). I did not have a 6mm socket to remove the old nozzle and I stripped the old one using a pair of pliers. I ordered replacement nozzles from Amazon and go the printer working within a couple of days. After the jam, When I tried to load filament it would not work. I disassembled the extruder gearing system and discovered a lot of residue filament that was preventing it from engaging. After i cleaned that out, and reported to tech support, I was able to load filament. They agreed to send me a replacement part which I received in 4 days. I have completed about 300-400 hours of printing (primarily Rapid PETG, but also some PLA+) without errors. In summary:: 1) They are using poorly produced products (USB-C cable). 2) They have insufficient pre-shipment testing 3) They need to have "parts" in local warehouses instead of having to overnight/rush-ship. 4) If they cannot have tech support in the US, maybe they could have a small staff in Europe to help with the time-delay. I actually do not understand why they use the USB-C cable connection to the fastest and continuously moving component in the printer. USB-C is designed for plugging into a PC (or phone) that is sitting in one place and not moving (Apple now uses USB-C but NOT for their headphones!). 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2 Days... 2 Days is how long it took for it to fail. Started out very good. Packaging was great, setup was flawless, installation and setup video was great. First print came out a little messy.. Not bad enough to cause concern for a brand new out of the box machine. Printed multiple things quickly, and easily. Software was easy to use and learn, and very simple to understand. The next day, I printed a bucket for the purge out the back, immediately it started peeling up off the bed, and having issues.. (bed was cleaned after every use). This particular time, I also enabled bed leveling. Still didn't help. The print completed, and it was good enough. I then decided to test it with an articulated dragon... The issues began, and never stopped.. First, the dragon printed great.. No issues.. But the software was stuck at "Printing, 17%" No worries, I'll just reset the software, and printer. Nope.. Still stuck at 17%.. Reminder, the dragon is sitting on my desk, finished.. I went through every process they recommend.. Restart internet, apps, computers, phones, routers everything. Nope.. 17%. Also, if you tried to just ignore it, and print something else, it would say "Printer is printing", but if you clicked the pause or stop button on the screen, it said "Not printing anything". The screen on the printer wasn't saying anything like this though, it was like it wasn't connected to my computer. So, I decided to test it from the machine. "Printer is busy". Checked for updates.. Now.. Let me first say, in the facebook group for these, every, and I mean EVERY post, is some issue they're having. And it's even a joke about the updates, "is the new update safe?" "Should I do the update?" Because everyone knows how the updates ruin it.. Well... No surprise.. I hit update, and it was over. Absolutely no connection at all after that. Another round of resetting everything.. Nothing.. Spent the next hour or so doing everything possible to get it connected. FINALLY... The phone app got connected.. After having to reset my account and log back into it on the printer side, scan the QR code to link it back to my phone, etc.. Finally, it's connected... Lets try something.. Guess what.. Printer is printing the dragon.. Now at 8%.. The screen on the printer didn't say that though.. So, lets hit print.. Woah.. It started?? Great! Not so fast... It began making the outlines for the first layers, and I noticed something... What is that? A mass of filament dragging around behind the nozzle... It didn't even purge. It just started squishing out filament.. Had a large glob of it already starting.. When I hit stop, it didn't and the app then popped up with the dragon, now at 0%. And if you've looked into these at all, that glob is what the community calls the "Glob of death" because it will absolutely destroy these machines... It will ruin the nozzle, and all the components in the head, because the plastic will be melted all around the cables, boars, etc.. Which they recommend just buying an upgraded one.. Already? No thanks.. I rarely review things, but this needs to be posted. These, from what I have seen are about a 90/10% usage.. 90% of the time, you will be fixing things, making sure its printing correctly, checking to make sure you don't have a "Glob of death". And resetting your software, internet, phone, computer, etc.. 10% will be actually using it and being happy with the result. Do your research on these. Join the groups on facebook.. It's not a joke, and I'm not overexaggerating. EVERY. POST. Is some type of issue. Oh.. And I made a post about the issue, apparently everyone that did the update, had the same issue.. That was early yesterday. (4/11/26) it is now 4/12/26, they said it could be a while before it's fixed and they can use their printer again, and warning others to not do the update.. How dumb.. No thanks. Taking my business elsewhere. Already asked for a refund, and it's boxed up ready to roll out! Again.. Do your research... You'll see..
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Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2026 by Russ
Set name: Centauri Carbon
I was looking to replace my Monoprice Maker Select 3 which was a great learning experience with something faster and had an enclosure so I could print ABS without it warping off the plate. I looked at the QIDI and Bamboo and Crealty printers. All of them look good. I liked the QIDI and the Crealty printers for their larger size but I had just purchased some other toys for myself and I was looking to save a buck. Even the 799 price for the low end of the other printers was too much and I didn't want to wait, so I compromised for the smaller print size of this Elegoo for less than half the price of the others and was still quite a bit larger than my old printer. The package arrived in 2 days and I remarked to my wife that it was one of the better packaged deliveries I have ever ordered from Amazon. When I saw the package on my doorstep it was upside down, so I think it was a good thing it was packaged so well because the box had the appearance of going through some hardship on the way to my doorstep. Being pretty careful, I unboxed it in about 10 minutes and the printer was undamaged. Overall, the unboxing was one of the more pleasant experiences I have had. In about 30 - 45 minutes, I started the included benchy print. It printed in 18 minutes and some change. It was better than my best effort on the old printer right out of the box. I got it with the vibration feet, and it makes me laugh because this thing shakes like crazy when it's really printing. I would assume whatever was being printed would be out of shape due to the machine quivering while it's printing, but it turns out some good results. I'm not sure at this point if the vibration feet really make any difference or not. The included filament was enough to print the benchy with a little left over. On my next print, I used that to test the ability to run out of filament and load new filament and continue printing. I wasn't sure how to do it, but it was intuitive enough that I did not even look at the directions. The printer stopped when it ran out and I loaded new filament and told the printer to continue and off it went. I could see a little whisker of filament where the stop was but it's tiny. The one issue I have had so far was when I fired up the Elegoo slicer software. The interface looks decent, and it looks like it has quite a few more features than my Monoprice CURA slicer I have been using but when I tried to slice the included Eiffel Tower stl it crashed twice on my old windows 10 laptop. (old I3 with 16 GB RAM) I tried another simpler stl file I created myself and it sliced that just fine. I'm guessing my old laptop just doesn't have the oomph to slice something that complicated. So far, I could not be happier with my purchase. It is certainly possible to be printing in 30 minutes from starting to open the box. (There is a self test that may put you over that because it takes a while to auto level the bed and test all the fans and heaters) It's probably as close to open the box and print as you can get and make sure the machine is calibrated. I have only tried the included filament and an old spool of Elegoo PLA+ I had on hand and that seems to work really well. But I hope to try some fully enclosed ABS printing soon. 5 Stars because so far, it's just worked. If the software continues to be a problem for my laptop that could knock it down a star. But other than that, 2 hours in, it's as advertised, and I paid about 50 bucks more for this printer than I did my monoprice. I would definitely buy it again. This printer is pretty heavy so if you aren't a brute, you may want someone to help you pull it out of the box. You don't want to break those nice panels before you even get it out of the box!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2026 by Procopius
Set name: Neptune 3 Pro
This 3D printer went together fast. In the box is a USB stick with SD card with videos on assembly and software. Install the Elegoo Cura (thats the program you use to output files onto your SD card to print). Then watch the assembly video if needed, but directions were pretty clear with pictographs. After assembling I made a few quick test prints and they came out phenomenal with factory settings. To be honest, I had purchased an Ender 3 pro before I got this printer. I was semi- familiar with the process of 3D printing due to this. I've had NOTHING but bad luck with the Ender. Wasted TONS of filament and time. This printer hasn't had a failed print yet... im impressed! The process of outputting files to your card is called "slicing". Then that "slice" must be saved to the SD card as a .gcode file. Then you pop the SD card into the Elegoo and navigate to the gcode file and print it. The Elegoo Cura software is the program you can make changes to the model and fine tune the settings. Temperature, speed of print, support structures, thickness of the lines etc. are all done through the cura software. Its fairly intuitive and little info windows pop up to tell you about the area your hovering over...very helpful. There are a few draw backs to this machine but none would be a deal breaker. 1. The print Head assembly is GIANT. This makes seeing smaller pieces being printed near impossible. The first few layers of a calibration cube for example are dwarfed by the enormous print head. Hard to check adhesion and print quality that way. 2. The slot to insert the SD card is inset into the machine under the front of the build plate. It's hard to get the card inserted especially for an old fart like myself. 3. You can NOT adjust the e-steps from the display pad. E-steps are the settings we use to "fine" tune the control motors. Y axis, X axis, and Z axis; Y being for and aft, X being right and left, Z being up and down. You can edjust the steps for filament dispensing but not the rest. In order to adjust and fine tune your printers e-steps you'd have to get software to output a programming gcode file. This means you'll need to learn a new software and programming style. It's not impossible but this isn't something you'll want to buy for gramma at Christmas as she will be lost. Hopefully in the future ELEGOO will update the firmware to include this ability. As for why it's important to adjust the e-steps... these control how far a motor is actually moving. Take a calibration cube for example. The dimensions of the finished cube are expected to be 20mm tall X 20mm high X 20mm wide. With an untuned e-step your cube may come out being 21mm X 19mm X 20.5 mm. This may not seem like a big deal, but in the grand scheme of things if we are printing items with threads or a certain diameter to fit into/onto something else we need them to print exact. Out of the box this printer was within a few tenths of a mm of being dead on. Make SURE to level your bed BEFORE you do anything. The bed must be at temperature and the nozzle at temperature as well. This is not in the instructions. If you set your level with them cold or room temp your plate to nozzle distance will decrease when you start a print. Things expand when you heat them and this will decrease the gap if you don't pre-heat. The second thing you need to do after leveling is measure and extrude some filament to set the e-step of the extruder. This will make sure your not pushing too much or too little filament out. Measure 120mm of filament from the top of the print head and make a mark there. Then after preheating the nozzle to the temp your filament needs to melt, command the printer to extrude 100mm of filament. Then measure the exact amount the filament traveled. Use that distance to calibrate your e-steps using this formula... yes you're going to get math on you. Your current e-steps programmed in the machine multiplied by 100 (thats the distance we wanted extruded). Take that number and divide it by the actual amount the filament traveled when you measured it. That number will be your new e-step setting. Once you've leveled the bed, and set your filament e-steps your ready to print. My first print was a threaded funnel for my new car. It threads in to where my oil cap is so I wanted to see how precise the prints were. See my pictures. Using default settings the print came out spectacular with nylon filament. True test was threading it into my car... it went right in with no issues. All in all this is an AWESOME printer. It BY FAR outperforms the Ender 3 pro. I've had the printer running non-stop for 4 days now and not a single issue with it. If your willing to tackle a bit of a learning curve with programming e-steps this could be an amazing printer. You will NOT be disappointed.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2023 by Professor Craig Donor