The Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 Combo is Here, and It Costs $449
The printer follows in the original Centauri Carbon’s footsteps with a low price and high expectations, adding multicolor/multi-material capability and improvements to temperature management and out-of-the-box printing of "advanced" materials.
It’s finally here. After months of teasing, the Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 is available now. Where the original Centauri Carbon launched at ~$300, this new four-filament-toting version costs $449 and increases the maximum hot end temp, adds more sensors to monitor and control the printing, and automates chamber temperature regulation.
As reported previously, at launch the printer is only available in its “Combo” configuration, with the CANVAS multi-filament feeder system bolted to the side of the printer. From today, the printer is available for the following regions and prices:
- United States: $449 USD
- Europe: €439 EUR
- Great Britain: £339 GBP
- Canada: $619 CAD
- Australia: $999 AUD
- Japan: ¥ 79,999 JPY
It is, by many measures, an upgraded printer rather than a plain bait-and-switch that some feared following Elegoo tapping the brakes on its multi-filament solution for the original Centauri Carbon printer.
Technically, the machine maintains the standard 256 x 256 x 256 mm build volume. A hardened steel nozzle comes equipped as standard, with Elegoo claiming “hassle-free” printing of materials, including “advanced options like PETG” and fiber-reinforced materials. Like the original Centauri Carbon before it, the Centauri Carbon 2 is fully enclosed, but crucially this time, will automatically open and close vents on the chamber to better regulate the air temp. This should result in the printer being able to stay fully closed when printing PLA and other lower temp materials that would otherwise risk blockages in a warm chamber environment.
Elegoo positions the Centauri Carbon 2 as a “family-friendly” machine, with emphasis placed on the interconnected ecosystem the company is building; between the Matrix mobile app, Nexprint model repository, and Orca Slicer-based ElegooSlicer software, you have a multitude of ways to throw tasks at the machine from different devices.
Judging by polling data on our last article about the printer, which put 45% in anticipation of the CC2 and 55% looking elsewhere or jaded against Elegoo for not delivering (yet) on the original CC’s filament changer, this new machine may get a different reception than its predecessor.
We saw first-hand how wildly successful the original Centauri Carbon launch was. The timing may be against the Centauri Carbon 2 Combo. There are many single-nozzle style multicolor printers out there by now, and folks are ready for less wasteful options.
The Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 Combo is available now from the Elegoo webstore.
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