🖨️ Printers
In 30 seconds
- Here you see all the machines in the workshop and, if they're connected, their real-time status: what they're printing, how far along they are, what material they have and their temperatures.
- Click a printer to open its page: issues, job, controls and diagram.
- What you see for each one depends on how it's connected.
- Connecting them is done by an administrator from Settings → Printers: Connecting printers.
The printer gallery
At the top, how many printers you have and how many are online. You can search by name, model, brand, serial number or IP, switch between Card view and List view, and open the workshop's Print history.
The card adapts to the machine (toolheads, material units, tool changer, resin). From top to bottom:
| Part | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Header | Number, name, brand, model and filament or resin icon. |
| Connections | One icon per route (local network or cloud; two if it goes both ways): green dot if it's responding now, grey if not. |
| Status | Printing, Paused, Attention, Completed, Idle… Disconnected says since when ("3h ago") and dims the card. |
| Image | Thumbnail or photo, with the progress bar while printing: The image and the camera. |
| File | The one it's printing and the time remaining ("≈" = unreliable estimate from the machine). Stopped: "Last:" and the last file. |
| Issue | The most serious one, with "+N" if there are more. |
| Material | What's loaded (filament) or the FEP film wear (resin). |
| Temperatures | Nozzle, bed and chamber if it measures it. The target only while heating: 212°/220. |
The spools
A card with the Virtual · Bambuddy label is not a machine: it is Bambuddy's print queue, which repeats the status of another of your printers and takes up a slot in your plan. More in Printers on the local network.
Each spool is a circle in its colour with a ring showing what's left: amber below 20 %, fully grey if the machine doesn't say. Empty, dashed border; the one feeding now, highlighted. They're grouped by unit (AMS, HT, external spool), by toolhead (L and R) on two-toolhead machines, or T0, T1… with a tool changer.
No AMS means there's only the external spool. Doesn't report its material means the machine doesn't say what it has: not that it's empty.
List view
One row per printer: thumbnail (darkened if it's stopped, as on the card), status, an issue counter in the colour of the most serious one, progress, file, time remaining, temperatures, spools and connections. On narrow screens it scrolls sideways.
A printer's page
Header: number, name, brand, model, serial number, connections, status and History (its jobs). On Bambu Lab machines through the cloud, the ⋮ menu has Firmware.
Issues: all at the top, from Critical to Serious, Warning and Info. On Bambu Lab machines, with code, module and a View on the wiki link to the manufacturer's wiki. The image, with Watch live and Take photo: The image and the camera.
The job and the controls
Now printing or Last print: the file and eight fixed figures to compare machines (Progress, Layer, Elapsed, Remaining, Estimated total, Weight —on resin, the Vat temperature—, Job and Data via: agent or cloud). Below, the materials with their colour and what they used; while printing, what's planned ("plan"). If elapsed and estimated don't add up with what's left, there was a pause.
| The printer is… | Active controls |
|---|---|
| Printing | Pause and Cancel |
| Paused | Resume and Cancel |
| Stopped by an error with a job half done | Only Cancel |
The three buttons are always visible; if they can't be used, they're greyed out with a padlock and the reason: offline, there's no print to control right now or Read-only (it doesn't accept commands: Bambu Lab machines through the cloud and those not connected through a local agent with full control).
A Bambu Lab over the local network only accepts commands with Developer Mode turned on. If it doesn't have it, it will refuse the command and we'll tell you: its buttons switch off with the reason ("This printer refused the last command: it needs Developer Mode"). Turn it on from the printer's screen — it needs LAN Only Mode, which disconnects it from Bambu Cloud — and press I've turned it on: the buttons come back, and the next command you send is the test. If it still doesn't have the mode, it refuses again and they switch off again.
The command travels straight away; wait for the printer to confirm and the page will change on its own. If it couldn't be delivered, its local agent isn't connected.
⚠️ Cancelling can't be undone
The print stops and the piece is lost, as when cancelling on the machine. That's why it asks you to confirm.
The machine diagram
If it doesn't fit at half width (many spools or toolheads), it takes the full width and the cards move below.
| Filament | Resin | |
|---|---|---|
| Diagram | Material, filament to each nozzle (temperature and diameter) and bed; if it measures the chamber, it draws it enclosed with its temperature. | Build plate, vat and UV LED. |
| Beside it | Loaded spools (colour, material, what's left) and Dryers and humidity: humidity (%, if reported), temperature and Drying, Not drying or "This unit can't dry". | Consumables (FEP film: uses out of the maximum). The resin: "The machine doesn't report it"; no machine reports it today. |
What you look at less often
A card with tabs; a dot marks the one worth a look, and it remembers the last one opened.
| Tab | What it has |
|---|---|
| Machine | Fans, speed, light, timelapse, SD card, wifi and last signal (only what the machine reports). |
| Hardware | Firmware, serial number, brand, model, type, toolheads, nozzles and Support ID. Bambu Lab through the cloud: View firmware versions (Detected modules); it doesn't check for updates. |
| Connections | Each route: whether it responds, when it was seen and why it fails. A dot if any is down. |
| Statistics | Completed prints and material for the month and in total. The material includes failed and cancelled prints (the number of prints doesn't), says how many are approximations and is broken down by exact material. |
What you see for each printer, and why it sometimes changes
| Connected… | Camera | Job thumbnail |
|---|---|---|
| Over the local network | Yes: live, photo on demand, final photo and automatic if there's no thumbnail. | Klipper, Prusa and Bambu P1, A1 and X1. Bambu H2 machines don't give a thumbnail: you see the camera. |
| Through the manufacturer's cloud | No. | Yes, on Bambu machines. |
If a machine doesn't say its material or doesn't measure the chamber, that figure doesn't appear. It isn't a fault: it's what each one allows (Connection types). Is a printer missing? Connecting printers, in the administrators' section.
Who can do what?
| Action | Who |
|---|---|
| See the panel and take photos | All roles |
| Pause, resume and cancel, and I've turned it on | Owners, Admins and Workers (not Read-only) |
| Manage printers in Settings; archive or restore from the history | Admins and Owners |
In this section
- 📜 Print history — the jobs, their totals and how to archive.
- 📷 The image and the camera — thumbnail, photos and live view.