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Elegoo is getting into 3D scanning. Its first scanner, the M1 Ultra, launches October 29, and Elegoo says it will give the price then. That makes three of the biggest consumer printer brands with scanners this fall, alongside Creality’s Sermoon P1S, on sale now, and Bambu Lab’s S1, due in November.
TL;DR
- Elegoo’s page calls the M1 Ultra an all-in-one 3D scanner with 0.02 mm accuracy and wireless scanning. That’s nearly all it says.
- It launches October 29 at 12:00 AM PDT, when Elegoo will announce the price. Elegoo’s US page offers $100 off, or $400 off a scanner and printer bundle, through November 12. Early buyers also get 1,400 free scan markers.
- Creality’s Sermoon P1S, also an all-in-one with a built-in computer and screen, is on regular sale at $2,299 on Creality’s US store.
- Bambu Lab says its first scanner, the S1, is coming in November. It hasn’t shared specs or a price.
My take
Elegoo entering the scanner market is a nice surprise! Elegoo makes great budget machines as of recently with the Centauri Carbon series, but seems to fall short in the premium category. For me, this is all about performance to price for Elegoo.
I have no experience with scanners, admittedly, so it will be interesting to see everyone’s thoughts.
What Elegoo listed
The M1 Ultra page is short. Elegoo calls it an all-in-one smart 3D scanner, uses the tagline “Scan Anywhere. Measure Precisely,” and claims 0.02 mm “metrology-grade” accuracy, wireless scanning, versatile scanning modes and intelligent software. It doesn’t name any of those modes or the software.
Elegoo has since set a launch: October 29 at 12:00 AM PDT, when it says it will announce the price. Until November 12, its US page offers $100 off the scanner, or $400 off a scanner and printer bundle. Specs are still missing. There’s nothing about whether it uses blue laser lines, infrared structured light or both. There’s also no weight, battery, screen, scan volume or file formats. Early buyers also get 1,400 scan markers that Elegoo values at $19.99. The scanner also shows up as “coming soon” on Elegoo’s 3D scanners collection, which has nothing else in it that’s actually a scanner.
Creality’s Sermoon P1S is the one you can order
Creality launched the Sermoon P1S on September 22 as a lower-priced sibling of its Sermoon P1. It’s the closest match to what Elegoo describes, because the computer is inside the scanner. Creality lists an 8-core Qualcomm chip, an Adreno 740 GPU, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage and a 6-inch touchscreen, so you can scan and review without a laptop. It combines blue laser lines with NIR structured light, weighs 807 g with its battery, and runs on two swappable 3,300 mAh batteries.
Creality also quotes 0.02 mm accuracy for blue-laser scanning, the same headline number as the M1 Ultra. Its press release adds that the figure comes from lab testing and that real results can change with vibration and temperature. That’s a useful reminder that one accuracy number on a product page doesn’t tell you much on its own.
The US store listing no longer lists the P1S as a preorder. It’s on regular sale at $2,299, after a $2,099 preorder price. The original Sermoon P1 is listed at $3,299.
Bambu Lab’s S1 is next month
Bambu Lab’s official forum account posted on October 12 that the S1 3D scanner is coming in November, with the line “Create from your world. Start with a scan.” That’s the whole announcement so far. An FCC grant for a device named the Bambu Lab S1 (FCC ID 2A6J8-DS001) was issued on September 22, which is how people first spotted it. The filing shows 5 GHz Wi-Fi but no scanner specs.
Bambu hasn’t said how the S1 scans, what it costs, or whether it has its own screen and processor like the P1S. Its forum thread is full of guesses on price, and none of them come from Bambu.
Why printer brands want scanners
A scanner gives a printer company another expensive box to sell to people who already own its printers. It also fills a real gap. Measuring a broken bracket with calipers and redrawing it in CAD takes time, and a scan gets you the shape in minutes. A raw scan is a mesh, though, not a model you can edit, so the software that turns scans into usable parts matters as much as the hardware.
That part is moving too. 3DPrinting.com reports that Stefan Hermann of CNC Kitchen added a Reverse Engineer workspace this week to ScanRuler, his free browser-based scan tool, that lets an AI agent rebuild a scanned STL as a parametric CAD model. We haven’t tried it ourselves yet.
What we don’t know yet
For the M1 Ultra, the price (due October 29), how it scans, whether it has a built-in screen and computer, and what software comes with it. For the S1, the same list. Creality’s P1S is the only one of the three with a full spec sheet and a price you can pay today. We’ll update this when Elegoo launches the M1 Ultra and Bambu Lab posts real specs.
Sources
- Elegoo: Introducing Elegoo M1 Ultra (checked October 22, 2026)
- Elegoo: 3D Scanners collection
- Creality press release: Sermoon P1S (September 22, 2026)
- Elegoo press release: the upcoming M1 Ultra (October 22, 2026; launch date and time)
- Elegoo US store: M1 Ultra (launch discounts through November 12)
- Creality Store: Sermoon P1S (regular sale at $2,299, checked October 22, 2026)
- Creality Store: Sermoon P1 (checked October 22, 2026)
- Bambu Lab forum: “Bambu Lab S1: 3D scanner, coming November” (October 12, 2026)
- FCC ID 2A6J8-DS001 (Bambu Lab S1), granted September 22, 2026
- 3DPrinting.com, “CNC Kitchen’s Free ScanRuler Lets AI Agents Turn 3D Scans Into Parametric CAD” (October 22, 2026)
