Creality leak hints at new dual-nozzle printer, possibly more designs coming

A leaked Creality prototype points to a dual-nozzle desktop printer, and the hardware suggests the company may be testing more than one way to tame multicolor waste. The images, which surfaced in a Chinese community group, show a machine Creality has not officially announced, with a two-print-head layout that may be tied to a revised SPARKX i7 concept.

What makes the leak matter is not just the extra nozzle. Creality already has a public multicolor playbook in market, and that raises the stakes for buyers trying to decide whether another dual-nozzle machine would solve a real problem or simply add another option to an already crowded shelf. The company’s K2 series is officially positioned around multicolor printing with the Creality Filament System, and Creality says four CFS units can deliver up to 16 colors. The K2 Plus Combo ships with one CFS unit, while three more are needed to reach that 16-color ceiling.

That framing puts the leak in direct competition with Creality’s own promise that multicolor printing can be cleaner and simpler. The SPARKX i7 is marketed as a multicolor desktop printer with 50% less waste, along with AI Photo-to-3D, CubeMe-style conversion, quick-swap parts, and beginner-focused setup claims. In other words, Creality is already selling one path toward less purge waste and easier color changes. A second hardware path would suggest the company is exploring whether dual-nozzle printing can deliver the same result with less filament loss and less post-processing.

The leaked machine appears to use a hybrid setup, with a direct-drive extruder on the print head and a Bowden-fed extruder mounted on the frame. That is the kind of detail hobbyists notice immediately, because dual-nozzle systems promise cleaner multi-material prints, easier soluble supports, and less purge waste, but they also bring calibration headaches, nozzle alignment questions, contamination risk, and added maintenance. Those tradeoffs often decide whether a printer becomes a daily tool or a forum curiosity.

Creality has done this before. 3Druck says the company launched the Sermoon D3 Pro in 2022, a dual-nozzle machine aimed at industrial and professional users, and similar dual-nozzle devices were already on the market from MakerBot and Ultimaker around 2013. A recent Creality patent also described a nozzle-module design that physically moves another melting unit into printing position instead of swapping filament, which suggests the company is exploring several architectures at once.

That is why this leak stands out. It does not confirm final specs or pricing, but it does show a major desktop brand still searching for a better answer to the same question: how to make multicolor and multi-material printing less wasteful, less frustrating, and cheap enough to matter.