Co Print Quadro Puts Four Independent Toolheads on One Bed-Slinger for $649

Why Multi-Color Printing Keeps Wasting Filament

Most affordable multi-color printers still use one nozzle. Every time the color changes, the hotend has to cut the old filament, retract it, feed the next one, and purge the residue into a tower or a poop bucket. The result is slow prints, noisy mechanical orchestras, and bins of discarded plastic. Co Print has spent the last few years selling upgrade kits that try to fix this on existing printers. Now the company is launching its first complete machine, and the approach is dead simple: give every color its own toolhead.

How Four Heads Share One X-Axis

The Co Print Quadro is a bed-slinger with four independent toolheads mounted on a single X-axis rail. Each head has its own belt, pulley, and stepper motor. When a color is not in use, the head parks in one of the side-mounted Qdock stations. Only the active head moves over the 300 x 300 x 350 mm build area. Tool swaps take about three seconds, and because no filament ever has to be purged through a shared nozzle, Co Print claims waste drops by roughly 90 percent and color-change time by up to 70 percent.

Alignment is the obvious risk. If four nozzles are even slightly out of sync, the layers will not stack correctly. Co Print is using a 360-degree calibration routine where each toolhead touches a probe from five directions, and the firmware compensates for positional offsets in software. Whether that stays accurate after months of vibration is something reviewers will need to test.

Specs and Pricing

The Quadro is built around a mostly metal frame, with aluminum parts produced by injection molding rather than bent sheet metal. Co Print says this is meant to keep the Y bed flat and the motion rigid. The machine can hit 600 mm/s print speeds and 10,000 mm/s² accelerations, with each hotend rated to 300°C and a 24 mm³/s flow rate. Out of the box it should handle PLA, PETG, some TPU grades, and carbon-fiber-reinforced filaments. ABS will need an enclosure.

The Kickstarter campaign opens in October 2026. The Super Early Bird price is $649, with a planned retail price of $899. People who reserved before August 25 can get the effective price down to $499 through cashback and store credit. The campaign already earned Kickstarter's "Project We Love" badge before launch, which suggests there is real interest, though badge momentum is not the same as a finished product.

The Verdict

Independent toolheads are not a new idea, but putting four of them on a $649 bed-slinger is aggressive. If the calibration and mechanical design hold up, the Quadro could undercut systems that solve the same problem with bigger purge towers and single nozzles. If they do not, it will be another crowdfunded printer that looked better on paper than on the bench.