Elegoo launches CANVAS upgrade, adds official 4-color printing to Centauri Carbon

Elegoo finally gave Centauri Carbon owners the multicolor upgrade they kept asking for, and it lands at US$55. The new CANVAS kit is now listed in Elegoo’s U.S. store as an official add-on for the Centauri Carbon only, with automated 4-color printing, four independent motors, RFID filament detection, auto-refill, and tangle prevention, plus an estimated U.S. warehouse shipping date of August 25.

That price matters because the original Centauri Carbon was built on aggressive value. Elegoo opened pre-orders for the printer on February 17, 2025 at US$299.99 and pitched it as the company’s first CoreXY machine, with a 256 × 256 × 256 mm build volume, speeds up to 500 mm/s, 20,000 mm/s² acceleration, a 320°C nozzle, and a 1000W AC heated bed on 220V. Chris Hong framed it as a breakthrough meant to lower the barrier to creativity, and the machine sold on that promise of a serious desktop printer without a premium sticker price.

The compromise was obvious from day one: buyers got an inexpensive entry into enclosed CoreXY printing, but no easy official path to multicolor. Fabbaloo noted that the Centauri Carbon reset expectations by coming in under US$300, which made the lack of a native multicolor option stand out even more. Elegoo spent much of 2025 signaling that it was working on the problem. On September 26, 2025, the company said it was optimizing multicolor printing for the Centauri Series. On November 12, 2025, it said its engineering team had been working on the system since the previous year, but hardware limits kept it from meeting performance expectations and it could not guarantee a release date.

That November notice also came with compensation for early buyers: a US$50 filament coupon, a 365-day warranty extension, or an US$80 coupon toward the Centauri Carbon 2 Combo, which Elegoo later positioned as a multicolor printer with CANVAS support and a reported US$449 starting price. For existing owners, the math is now clearer. A Centauri Carbon plus CANVAS comes to US$354.99 before filament, still well below the newer combo machine and far below the US$249 price tags Elegoo’s rival Bambu Lab charges for both the AMS lite and the standard AMS.

The real question is not whether Elegoo added multicolor support. It did. The bigger question is whether CANVAS feels like a clever catch-up move or a genuinely maker-friendly bargain. By building the system into the Centauri Carbon platform instead of pushing buyers into a separate, higher-priced ecosystem box, Elegoo is betting that low-cost four-color printing, plus a simpler workflow, is enough to keep budget-conscious builders in its lane.