The Creality Ender 3 V4 is Coming, Supports Multicolor Out of the Box

As far as trade shows go, Formnext can be pretty surprising. I did not, for example, expect to see Creality’s next Ender 3 machine there, live and kicking. Well, printing.

On display at the company’s booth was the Ender 3 V4, which makes a strong departure from the last generation Ender by adding native CFS filament switcher compatibility. As with all other CFS-compatible printers from the company, that means up to 16-filament printing, if you chain four of the boxes together.

The printer sports a new design the evolves the V3’s cast body further, with a new “unibody die-cast gantry” joining the party. This single-piece brace of metal should, Creality says, minimize shaking and wobbles. It certainly looks the business, and provides the basis for customizability for the printer. Creality showed off a customized Creality “commander mascot” Ender 3 V4, with printed decorations attached to the gantry frame.

Using a large die-cast piece like this should translate to a higher build quality, with fewer parts to potentially misalign and greater precision and uniformity between printers.

Core specs see the Ender 3 V4 largely in line with the V3. Expect 300°C at the hot end and 100°C for the heated bed. It will have a 220 x 220 x 235 mm build volume – not quite as tall as the Ender 3 V3’s 250mm.

The stated printing speed is up to 500 mm/s, a little slower than the V3’s 600 mm/s, which was achievable in part thanks to that printer’s CoreXZ motion system. These top potential speeds are largely useless since what you print, the material you use, and maximum flow possible through the nozzle will throttle your speeds.

The V4 marks a return to gantry frame-mounted spools, too, ditching the awkward side-mounted spool holder of the Ender 3 V3, which required a spool brace simply to function without tangles.

Back in the summer when testing the Creality Hi, I had assumed Creality would quietly, gradually sunset the Ender 3. The two were too similar and the Hi brought the company’s ecosystem of multicolor to that style of printer. Even though the Ender 3 V3 had the possibility for multicolor through the Co Print collaboration (which appears to have quietly lapsed) it would make sense to consolidate.

But that teaches me for trying to apply logic to 14+ printer series that is only now reaching V4 designation. The Creality Ender 3 V4 is expected to release early 2026.