ELEGOO Centauri Carbon 3D Printer CoreXY 500mm s High Speed Printing with Auto Calibration 320 C Nozzle and

All I can say is wow! My first ever 3D printer after months of research.. and what a printer I got! So, so easy to use. Within an hour of setting it up, off I was printing! Beautiful, detailed prints, super fast! Prints stuck to the plate great and came off easily when pulled. The slicer program makes it easy to know exactly what you're going to print, and the print reflects that in detail. Connecting through WiFi makes sending prints to the Centauri super easy and you can watch the print live through its camera, while monitoring all the heats, speed, and time remaining. I couldn't be more happy with my choice of printer, and I've already convinced a friend to upgrade to the Centauri from his old Ender! Small Con: fans are a little loud. Also vibrates the heck outta my desk because the speed the print head moves at, but that's more my furnitures fault than the printer LOL Read more

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! Read more

It's hard to think you could beat this printer for the cost. I was really torn between this printer and some of the multi color options out there like the Flashforge. I ultimately decided that the multi color wasn't that important to me and having the greater material options from this printer was a better choice. I'm happy with my decision. The printer prints great right out of the box. The setup was short. Remove a bunch of packing material and run some auto setup processes and you are ready to go. I have printed several upgrades including a better filament spindle and guard on the side, a riser to hold the glass top open at different levels so I don't have to keep taking it off and on. New hinges for the door to allow it to open fully and a few other things. I've printed mostly with PLA/PLA+ and PETG for the add ons. It has been great. I had zero failed prints on any of that. The print plate has great adhesion. I really like that I am not tied to some cloud service with the printer yet it has Wifi and I can print to it from anywhere in the house. Some people have added different cameras to allow for remote viewing. I went a different path. I think the built in camera is sufficient so I set up a VPN into my home network so I can view the built in camera from anywhere. The only issue I have had to this point is the bowden tube. It has gotten a curve to it from the shipping and it tries to kink. I took it off and reversed the two ends and that seems to have solved it for now. I may replace it in the future. Very minor issue. I know there was a plan for material changing on this model but they put that on hold and announced a new version with the multi material feature. I hope they revisit it and offer the ad-on. It's still a great printer even if they don't. Read more

I finally took the leap and upgraded from my Ender 3 Pro and Ender 3 Neo to this Elegoo Centauri Carbon after seeing all the reviews from the experts, and boy am I glad I did! I have had it for 3 days, and it is amazing! It was quick to setup (literally take it out of the box, remove some cardboard, and 3 screws, and you're done), plug it in, run the self-check process, and away you go! I have been printing almost non-stop since I unboxed it, and it has been amazing. I have swapped filaments 4 times, and used PLA, PLA+, PLA-CF, and PETG so far, and all of them have printed without any issues. I have some ABS, and TPU to test soon, and will be ordering some others to test as well. This thing is FAST, and Accurate compared to my highly modified Ender 3's, and there is no real tinkering with this thing. I would highly recommend this printer to anyone looking for a really great machine that is easy to use, and at an amazing price! Read more