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Elegoo has opened preorders for the Centauri Carbon, a CoreXY 3D printer that costs just ~$300.

The fully enclosed Centauri Carbon is built with “advanced materials” in mind, Elegoo says, including carbon and glass fiber composites, PET, PC, and PA. It features a build volume of 256 x 256 x 256 mm, and is claimed to hit speeds of 500 mm/s with 20,000 mm² acceleration.

For the price point, there are a lot of bells and whistles here. A chamber monitoring camera, a filament runout sensor, a touchscreen, a robust cooling system, a built-in air filter – certainly some bang-for-your-buck action.

Our review of the machine hammers this point home and expresses a pleasant experience with the fast-heating print bed – which can reach 110 °C. All told the Centauri Carbon gets good marks, although it doesn’t quite live up to the Bambu Lab X1C as Elegoo seems to suggest – but that would be asking a lot for the price.

Elegoo also promises forthcoming compatibility with “multi-color printing”, perhaps hinting at an AMS-like peripheral. Although, outside a Q3 launch window, details are scarce there.

The Centauri Carbon launches alongside the Centauri (sans Carbon), a slightly scaled-down (and, at $199.99, significantly cheaper) machine that supports fewer materials and lacks a full enclosure and some of the Carbon’s more advanced features. Speed and size-wise, however, the machines are the same.

The Centauri Carbon is set to ship by the end of May, and the regular Centauri by mid-July. Head over to Elegoo’s website to place a preorder or to compare the two machines in detail. And, of course, be sure to read our full review.

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