So let’s have it. The new printer is called the Neptune X, and it features a cube frame style, as seen with the likes of Creality’s Ender 5 series. At first glimpse, our hopes were raised at the prospect of the Neptune X being CoreXY, widely considered a superior motion system for fixed (Z-axis) bed printers. But no. It’s not—a missed opportunity for the Neptune X to exert a little superiority, right there.

The build volume is pegged at 220 x 220 x 300 mm – 50 mm taller than the aforementioned Creality Ender 5, a printer we’ll continue comparing it to since it’s virtually the same in size, looks, and style.

High up on the list of talking points for the Neptune X is that the printer will feature a “high-temperature” (250 W) heated bed that Elegoo claims can be quickly heated to 100℃. Also relevant to the bed, the Neptune X will feature oversized bed leveling nuts for convenient bed leveling.

As with the Neptune 2 before it, the Neptune X will feature a 32-bit mainboard, here with an STM32 microprocessor doing the heavy lifting.

The last thing of significance that we currently know about the Neptune X is that, on a firmware level, the fans will turn off when the machine is cool enough and not actively printing, keeping things nice and quiet if you’re too lazy to turn the machine off when it’s not in use.

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And that’s all she wrote. From all we’ve seen so far, the printer looks to be Elegoo asserting itself as a new alternate choice for FDM printers, should you have an aversion to Creality.

At the time of writing this piece, we’d yet to see pricing for the printer. For the Neptune to count for anything, we’d expect it to be priced aggressively low.