3D printers · Elegoo
Owners keep the Centauri Carbon as a fast, low-cost, enclosed printer for everyday and functional parts, and many who moved up from older Ender machines say printing became fun again.
Print quality is clear praise. Owners printing PETG parts on it say the pieces fit together without trouble, and none of the owners who raised quality had a complaint about it.
Owners are divided on reliability. Several describe it as dependable for functional prints, but nearly as many raise doubts, so this is a split verdict rather than a settled complaint.
The Elegoo Centauri Carbon is a home 3D printer with a closed case. It builds plastic objects layer by layer from a spool of filament. It suits hobbyists and beginners who want a fast printer that needs little setup, including for tougher materials like carbon-fibre-filled filament.
| Build volume | 256 × 256 × 256 mm |
|---|---|
| Printer type | CoreXY FDM (filament) |
| Max speed | 500 mm/s |
| Nozzle temperature | 320 °C max |
| Bed temperature | 110 °C max |
| Enclosure | Yes (enclosed chamber) |
| Auto bed levelling | Yes, full-auto (121-point) |
| Warranty | 12 months |
From the maker's spec page, checked October 8, 2026. A blank row means the maker does not state it.
It can print a single part up to about 25 cm on each side, roughly the size of a large shoebox. The 320 °C nozzle and closed case let it handle materials that warp or crack in open air, such as ABS, ASA and nylon, not just everyday PLA. Its top speed of 500 mm/s is not the speed you will usually print at; Elegoo recommends about 250 mm/s. Because the bed levels itself, you don't have to adjust it by hand before you print.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
The speed is what owners keep coming back to. People coming from an Ender 3 describe a Benchy finishing in a fraction of the time and looking better, and one owner who fitted the larger 0.6 nozzle says it saves a couple of hours on each big part. Several former Ender owners also say they no longer lose hours to bed leveling, and that the time now goes into printing instead of fixing.
The adjustments are mostly about what it is not. It prints one color unless you add a separate multicolor unit, and owners are divided on how much that matters: one has added Elegoo's Canvas system and is happy with the total cost, while others say anyone who needs multicolor printing now should look at Bambu Lab instead. The bed is 256 by 256, and at least one owner keeps a larger older printer for big jobs. The built-in camera is described as basic.
What owners point to as working well is the hardware they get for the price: a CoreXY frame, a full enclosure and a hardened steel nozzle, with a setup that one owner called close to plug and play. Owners running it next to other printers for large PETG builds say it kept up without a hitch.
Opinion on reliability is split, and the sampled comments do not describe a specific recurring fault on this machine. One owner mentions imperfections without saying what they are. Long-term accounts are thin: most owners here have had it somewhere between a few weeks and about a year, so how it holds up over several years of heavy use is not yet clear from these accounts.
From 0 owner accounts that said how long they have had it. Own one? Add how long yours has lasted.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
13 more subjects came up from fewer than 4 owners each, which is not enough for a fair reading. To see how it stacks up, compare it with another machine.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
Two questions: how long you have had it, and anything you would like to say about it. Then we ask again as it ages. This helps our mission.
More in 3d printers: Creality Hi, Bambu Lab X1C, Prusa Mk3.
Among the 0 owner accounts here that gave a duration, 0 described a failure.
Before you buy one used, ask the seller: how old it is, whether it was ever repaired and by whom, and whether any of the parts above have been replaced. Ask to see it run. A receipt tells you the warranty start date; most makers honour the term only for the first owner.
Public discussions we read and summarised in our own words. Nothing here was submitted to Still Kicks.
Counted from public accounts by people who said they own it, and summarised by Still Kicks in its own words. Not a manufacturer claim, a lab test or an estimate.
No account needed to look. Sign in with Google only if you want to track something you own.