Prusa Refreshes Its Whole Lineup With Free “Plus” Upgrades

Prusa Research has quietly turned three of its most popular printers into “Plus” versions, and it isn’t charging existing customers a cent more to get there. The refresh, announced August 12 and updated a day later, brings a shared set of hardware fixes across the XL, Core One, and Core One L, plus a much deeper overhaul for the tool-changing XL.

What’s shared across all three

Every refreshed printer — the XL+, Core One+ (Gen 2), and Core One L+ — picks up two changes: an integrated nozzle wiper that clears stray filament off the nozzle before a print starts, and new GT1.5 belts designed to cut down on the fine, repeating ripple patterns that show up on large flat walls. Prusa says the wiper was one of its most requested features, and built it as a replaceable wear part rather than something bolted on for life.

The XL+ gets the deepest changes

Prusa’s 360 x 360 x 360 mm toolchanging flagship sees the biggest jump. It inherits the 360-degree part-cooling system from the MK4S and Core One family, switches to high-flow nozzles as standard, and adds a permanently mounted eddy-current Tool Offset Sensor pulled from the INDX toolchanger. That sensor replaces a removable-pin calibration process and, according to Prusa, aligns each toolhead roughly 20 times faster. A redesigned, better-sealed enclosure can reportedly hit around 50°C using the printer’s own waste heat, with an active chamber heater — shown but not yet scheduled — expected to push that to 60°C later on.

Core One+ trims the wait before the first layer

The Core One+ (Gen 2) gets a redesigned heatbed mount that eliminates the “absorbing heat” pause for any material printed at 85°C or below, meaning PLA and PETG jobs should start sooner. It also borrows the tool-free, snap-on top panel first introduced on the Core One L, with a reinforced auto-vent mechanism underneath. The Core One L+ is the lightest refresh of the three, picking up just the shared belts and wiper.

No price increase, and upgrade kits for existing owners

Prusa says none of the refreshed machines cost more than the versions they replace. As of the announcement, an assembled Core One+ (Gen 2) lists at 1,349 EUR (still shown at $1,499 through Prusa’s US retail partner Printed Solid), the Core One L+ at 1,849 EUR, and a single-tool XL+ at 2,299 EUR. Anyone with an unshipped order for an older model gets the Plus version automatically. Core One+ and Core One L+ machines began shipping August 14, with assembled XL+ units following August 28.

Existing owners aren’t left out: Prusa is selling standalone upgrade kits, starting with the Core One+, followed by the Core One L+ and XL+ around the end of August and early September. The XL-to-XL+ kit is already listed at 249 EUR, shipping from September 4.

More on the way

The hardware refresh is only part of a bigger push. Prusa says the first INDX automatic toolchanger units for the Core One+ are close to shipping, a first alpha of PrusaSlicer 3.0 is due within weeks, per-print automatic Pressure Advance calibration is in internal testing, and an HT Hotend built for high-temperature engineering filaments is expected on the Core One family in September. Further out, “Prusa Connect Local” is being developed as a network-only replacement for PrusaLink, aimed initially at technically inclined users.

For a company that built its reputation on incremental, community-driven refinement rather than yearly redesigns, the Plus lineup looks like exactly that: a mid-cycle tune-up addressing the friction points — calibration time, cleanup, cooling, surface quality — that owners have been flagging, without asking anyone to buy a new printer to get them.

Source: Prusa Research’s announcement, with reporting from All3DP.