Hands-on from a long-time printer owner: simple setup, a sharp Benchy 15 minutes after calibration, and reliable, consistent prints that made it his everyday workhorse. Lists CoreXY at 500 mm/s, enclosure, camera, auto leveling and a 320 C hotend. Calls it a solid buy at $413 and a bargain at $279.
“Based on its performance, the Elegoo Centauri Carbon is a solid buy at its $413 retail price”
180 hours of benchmark and application tests. Measured an average repeatability of 0.025 mm and clean prints in PC-CF and ASA-CF thanks to the enclosure. Drawbacks: the slicer has no job queue and no skip-part feature. Calls it a compelling budget choice for hobbyists and engineers.
“The Centauri Carbon sets a new benchmark in the low-cost desktop FDM 3D printer market.”
Elegoo's first CoreXY at $299.99 runs very well and prints excellently, with a handy side spool holder and front USB port, and a local Klipper Wi-Fi instead of cloud-only control. Cons: weak chamber lighting and no long-term reliability record yet. Editor's Choice.
“The machine could use better lighting, but runs very well and produces excellent prints.”
ModBot · 2025年4月19日
A couple of months of testing. Likes the build quality, speed, cooling and full enclosure; dislikes the dark chamber, the proprietary firmware without bed-mesh options, and ABS first-layer and PETG profile problems. Calls it a really good value at $299 for a first CoreXY. VoxelPLA sponsored.
Aurora Tech · 2025年2月8日
Sponsored review (Elegoo supplied the unit; disclosed). A well-built enclosed CoreXY that narrows the gap to Bambu. Cons: Z offset sometimes needs manual tweaks, skinned Orca slicer, surface quality behind the best, multicolour system not ready. Good value for single-colour and engineering materials.
Frankly Built · 2025年2月5日
Elegoo sent the unit and sponsored the video (disclosed). He expected a clone but is very impressed: output matches his pricier printers, and he sees no reason not to use it for projects. Says it is early days and points viewers to other reviews for long-term hours.
ELEGOO is a Shenzhen company founded in 2015 that makes FDM and resin 3D printers, filament, laser engravers and STEM electronics kits. Its FDM range is the Centauri Carbon, an enclosed CoreXY printer, and the Neptune 4 series of open-frame Klipper printers, sold to hobbyists at budget to mid-range prices. DJI became a shareholder in 2025.
設立:
2015 ·
本社:
Shenzhen, China ·
所有関係:
Privately held through its parent, Shenzhen Zhinengpai (SmartPie) Technology; DJI became a shareholder in 2025 ·
ウェブサイト:www.elegoo.com
ELEGOO is fairly open in daily use: its printers work over the LAN with open slicers and any filament, and it now publishes firmware source. Source releases have followed community pressure rather than launch, and spare parts for the newest printers are thin in its store.
ファームウェアとカスタムファームウェア ●●●●●
The Neptune 4 series runs Klipper. For the Centauri Carbon, which went on sale in February 2025, ELEGOO published its modified source on GitHub under GPL-3.0 in September 2025, saying it did so in response to user feedback.
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ローカル制御と連携 ●●●●●
ELEGOO's printers connect to its slicer on the local network by IP without an account. The Neptune 4 series serves Klipper's web interface and Moonraker, which OrcaSlicer reaches as an Octo/Klipper host. For the Centauri Carbon and Centauri Carbon 2, ELEGOO published Elegoo Link on GitHub in January 2026, an Apache-2.0 SDK for local discovery, status, file upload and print control. The Matrix phone app adds remote printing while the printer is online.
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サードパーティー製フィラメント、スライサー、部品 ●●●●●
Third-party filament works; ElegooSlicer is an open-source OrcaSlicer-based slicer, OrcaSlicer works with the Neptune 4, and ELEGOO published the data format of its RFID filament tags so others can use it.
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修理と交換部品 ●●●●●
ELEGOO sells hotend, extruder and nozzle kits and some boards for the Neptune 4, and its wiki has many replacement guides, including the Centauri Carbon motherboard. The store's Centauri Carbon parts list is short (hotend kit, touchscreen, upper shell).
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データとプライバシー ●●●●●
LAN printing needs no account; the Matrix app and cloud do. The privacy policy names the companies responsible for personal data in each region (Shenzhen, Hong Kong, United States) but is written mainly for the online store.
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コミュニティとドキュメント ●●●●●
Active community and a wiki with guides per model; firmware and slicer sources are on GitHub, although the Centauri Carbon source came after users asked for it.
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メリット
Works on the local network with ElegooSlicer or OrcaSlicer, with no account needed.
Open-source slicer and a published RFID tag format for filament.
Many step-by-step replacement guides in its wiki.
Offered owners compensation when the Centauri Carbon multi-colour add-on was delayed.
デメリット
Centauri Carbon firmware source came about seven months after sales began, after users asked.
The Centauri Carbon's multi-colour add-on only became available in April 2026, after ELEGOO said in November 2025 it could not give a date.
Few complete Centauri Carbon parts are listed in its store.
The privacy policy is written mainly for the online store.
実績
5月 2026: ELEGOO's parent closed a B+ financing round of over 500 million yuan (about $73 million) from investors including Meituan, Hillhouse Capital and Shenzhen Capital Group. It reported 2025 revenue of 2.3 billion yuan.
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2026年4月27日: CANVAS, the multi-colour system for the Centauri Carbon, became available, five months after ELEGOO said it could not give a release date.
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2025年11月18日: DJI and Hangzhou Jiangyu Technology became shareholders of ELEGOO's parent company, according to a business registration update reported by TechNode. The size of the stake was not disclosed.
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11月 2025: ELEGOO said the multi-colour system it was developing for the Centauri Carbon did not yet perform as it wanted and that it could not guarantee a release date. It offered owners a choice of a $50 filament coupon, a 365-day warranty extension or $80 off a Centauri Carbon 2 Combo.
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2025年9月26日: In response to user feedback, ELEGOO published the modified source code of the Centauri series firmware on GitHub under GPL-3.0.
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2月 2025: ELEGOO opened pre-orders for the Centauri Carbon, its first enclosed CoreXY printer, on 17 February 2025.
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