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Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D Printer

+ $30 S/H

$300 or Less

$404

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Note: Despite this product being offered at regular pricing, we are promoting it on the front page due to the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our community.

ELEGOO has Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D Printer on sale for $299.99. Shipping costs start from $30 (may vary by location).
  • Note: For new Elegoo customers, you can scroll down to the bottom of the screen and enter your email where it says "stay in the know" and they will send you a $10 coupon bringing the price to $289.99. Users may opt out and remove the 'Worry-Free Purchase' option at the checkout page to save on an additional $7.69 fee if desired.
Thanks to Community Member gabe23111 for sharing this deal.

About this product:
  • Print right out of the box
  • Full-auto calibration
  • CoreXY with 500 mm/s velocity
  • 20,000 mm/s² acceleration
  • Chamber camera acts as your eyes
  • Build volume 256 × 256 × 256 mm

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    • This offer matches our extremely popular front page deal from February 2025 which earned over 160 thumbs up.
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Note: Despite this product being offered at regular pricing, we are promoting it on the front page due to the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our community.

ELEGOO has Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D Printer on sale for $299.99. Shipping costs start from $30 (may vary by location).
  • Note: For new Elegoo customers, you can scroll down to the bottom of the screen and enter your email where it says "stay in the know" and they will send you a $10 coupon bringing the price to $289.99. Users may opt out and remove the 'Worry-Free Purchase' option at the checkout page to save on an additional $7.69 fee if desired.
Thanks to Community Member gabe23111 for sharing this deal.

About this product:
  • Print right out of the box
  • Full-auto calibration
  • CoreXY with 500 mm/s velocity
  • 20,000 mm/s² acceleration
  • Chamber camera acts as your eyes
  • Build volume 256 × 256 × 256 mm

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • About this Store:
    • Refer to ELEGOO's Return Policy here.
  • Additional Information:
    • This offer matches our extremely popular front page deal from February 2025 which earned over 160 thumbs up.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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MadPup
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Unfortunately the replacement hotends are, and have always been, on preorder, and the nozzles are not even sold. There are 3rd party offerings on Amazon, but they aren't cheap. Other printer parts aren't available anywhere, notably the original build plates.
otaku13
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You can use Bambu plates you just have to line it up with the front of the plate instead of the back. It's a hair smaller but I've had no issues doing this.
Jersy19
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not a deal. this is normal price. it is a good printer though. I have one.

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Jul 22, 2025 12:14 PM
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TrollingByJul 22, 2025 12:14 PM
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Quote from Chonkla :
If someone is 100% new to printing - is it worth it to get any of the combos or just the printer by itself? TIA

Just buy the printer for now and get a roll of PLA from Amazon. Start by printing a couple of items already loaded on the printer.
Jul 22, 2025 12:19 PM
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TrollingByJul 22, 2025 12:19 PM
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Quote from famewolf :
Ask someone previously asked, how does this compare to the flashforge ad5m?

I haven't used the ad5m but with the number of good reviews for the centauri carbon and the number of people that bought it, it will probably get a much bigger 3rd party support for accessories and replacement. Also they'll be more fixes and use designed upgrades. So I think as a platform it'll be much better.
Jul 22, 2025 12:27 PM
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TrollingByJul 22, 2025 12:27 PM
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Quote from Rep_Me :
Is the Carbon really worth $100 more than the regular Centuari?

Depends on what you want to print. If you are printing PLA, PETG and TPU you won't need the enclosure and can save the $100. But if you are going to want to print ABS, ASA or step up to engineering filament you'll need the enclosure. I was happy with my ender 3 clone until I got into ASA.

oh you also get a camera and other upgrades but the enclosure is the big ticket.
Jul 22, 2025 12:45 PM
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thejobergJul 22, 2025 12:45 PM
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For anyone thinking about the various optional packages, I have the "all-in-one family combo" and haven't used anything from the package. I think the extra hotend will come in handy and the additional build plates have some cool transferable patterns. The spools of PLA and PLACF will probably be used eventually, but if I'm printing in black, I prefer PETG. The anti-vibration feet are more for sound dampening more so than anti-wobble, so not necessary for me. I haven't needed to use the glue stick yet, but from what I've seen from the community, the cheap purple glue stick for grade schoolers seem to be the preferred option for many.
If I were to do it all over, I think I would just do the printer and possibly an additional .4 hotend and/or .2 hotend.
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Jul 22, 2025 01:16 PM
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CebuJul 22, 2025 01:16 PM
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The anecdotal reports I've seen in FB user groups and on Reddit is that the anti-vibration feet can make the overall print quality worse.
The cheaper / more effective alternative for vibration damping is to put to put it on top of a 16x16 concrete paver with a 16x16 rubber paver underneath.

I went a little overboard on mine and used a rubber paver with 2x concrete pavers on top + a 3"x3" square of thin foam padding in each corner between layers to reduce vibration transfer and adjust for imperfections in the concrete surfaces. (For anyone curious, the foam I used was a roll of stick on molding that I picked up from Temu for free)
Note that the foam initially seemed like it wasn't going to work because everything felt more wobbly -- after a few days of letting it sit with some runs of input shaping calibration thrown in to shake things around, though, it's almost completely compacted and feels more secure than it did before.
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Jul 22, 2025 01:25 PM
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Greensleeves87Jul 22, 2025 01:25 PM
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Quote from MadPup :
Unfortunately the replacement hotends are, and have always been, on preorder, and the nozzles are not even sold. There are 3rd party offerings on Amazon, but they aren't cheap. Other printer parts aren't available anywhere, notably the original build plates.
Yes, OEM parts have not been available widely just yet but I strongly believe this is about to change as they've caught up with pre-orders and now the remaining accessory kits are shipping out so their manufacturing capabilities have ramped up at this point.
Long story short, I think their pre-order demand was higher than expected and they've been working hard to catch up so that creates capacity to finally build out the OEM parts catalog.
This is an absolute workhorse of a printer. If you only need single color prints, this thing is easily on-par with the quality I get from my Bambu Lab P1S. It's actually faster in some cases with equal quality. Multi material capabilities have been promised in Q3 of this year but yet to be formally announced and I expect it will be tough to get initially.
As other's have mentioned, P1S/X1C/A1 plates work on these and also 3rd party compatible hotends are showing up on Amazon/Ali already.
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Jul 22, 2025 01:49 PM
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JclingmanJul 22, 2025 01:49 PM
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Got one on the first preorder. Absolutely rocks. If you are even remotely considering this pull the trigger. Zero complaints.

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Jul 22, 2025 01:55 PM
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Maaaark914Jul 22, 2025 01:55 PM
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Quote from MadPup :
What you say is all true, but my statement still stands. You can only pre-order some OEM parts for this printer, and most are not available. As for the hotend, repairs aside, if you want a 0.2mm or 0.6mm one you'll be sitting in the pre-order queue. I think it's a great printer for the money but 4-5 months after release we're still starved for parts. This won't matter for the occasional tinkerer, but for others it will.
can you print spare parts?
Jul 22, 2025 02:04 PM
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titansilberJul 22, 2025 02:04 PM
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Quote from Maaaark914 :
can you print spare parts?
You can't 3d print cast metal replacement parts
Jul 22, 2025 02:12 PM
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mark97_soniJul 22, 2025 02:12 PM
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How does this compare to Anycubic Kobra S1?
Jul 22, 2025 02:32 PM
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SumDuudJul 22, 2025 02:32 PM
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This is full price, how is this slick?

having said that a friend of mine preordered one and it arrived last week. He has been very happy with it, coming from an Ender 3 and Resin printer.
Jul 22, 2025 02:40 PM
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SumDuudJul 22, 2025 02:40 PM
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Quote from Rep_Me :
Is the Carbon really worth $100 more than the regular Centuari?
Despite what others have said, I will say Yes it is! The enclosure will help with warping and fumes. The warping is more something that you may see, especially if the printer is anywhere a breeze may come through or temps can change by season. I've been 3D printing for 8 years and an enclosure is very much worth that difference.
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Jul 22, 2025 02:56 PM
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Elon69Jul 22, 2025 02:56 PM
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Quote from SumDuud :
Despite what others have said, I will say Yes it is! The enclosure will help with warping and fumes. The warping is more something that you may see, especially if the printer is anywhere a breeze may come through or temps can change by season. I've been 3D printing for 8 years and an enclosure is very much worth that difference.
I like enclosed units because it also keeps the temperature more steady/warm and no drafts.

no critters or cats to go near it either


It will also kill the sound a bit if it is fully enclosed. some have the top open which isn't good for sound dampening.
Jul 22, 2025 03:02 PM
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buttuhJul 22, 2025 03:02 PM
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I ordered 2 extra .6mm nozzle assemblies with my pre-order back in April and got them right the way, even before I received the printer. The extra build plates didn't show up until last week though.

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Jul 22, 2025 03:22 PM
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jerwilJul 22, 2025 03:22 PM
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I'm glad the price is still the same as the pre-order, but now as a pre-orderer I feel like there wasn't much point in pre-ordering at all since it wasn't at a discount.

Mine arrives today, so I am looking forward to trying it out! I'm coming from the original Ender 3 that served me well but required a lot of tinkering.

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