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1-Click Print: batch start prints across your printers

1-Click Print: batch start prints across your printers


1-Click Print reviews your whole queue, matches the next jobs to every printer that can run them, and starts them all at once. Instead of walking from printer to printer starting jobs one by one, you get a preview of exactly what SimplyPrint will print where, then start the lot with a single click. It is the fastest way to fill a farm at the start of a shift.


1-Click Print is part of the Pro plan and up. It is one of the core tools of the print queue.


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How 1-Click Print works

When you open 1-Click Print, SimplyPrint looks at every printer that is idle and ready, then works out the best-fitting queue item for each one. Matching is based on the same auto-matching rules the whole queue uses:


  • Tags - the printer must carry all of the item's tags. Filament (type and colour name), nozzle size, and any custom tags all have to line up. A printer can have extra tags the item does not need, but never the other way around.
  • Printer, model and group assignment - if an item is restricted to certain printers, models or printer groups, only those can match it.
  • Queue group - the printer has to be eligible for the item's queue group.
  • Bed type and file type - the loaded bed and the printer's accepted file types have to suit the item.
  • Fit and capability - the object has to fit the build volume, and the printer has to reach the required temperatures.
  • Max concurrent printers - if an item caps how many printers can run it at once and that cap is already reached, it is passed over.


Items higher up the queue are preferred, and normal items always come before back-burner items. The result is a preview showing which item lands on which printer, ready for you to review and start.


For the full breakdown of why an item does or does not match a given printer, see why won't my printer print this item?.


Opening 1-Click Print

You can open 1-Click Print from:


  • The queue page - the 1-Click Print button in the queue toolbar at your queue.
  • The printers page - the 1-Click Print button sits in the printers-page toolbar, ready whenever you want to start a batch.


The button reads simply 1-click print. Open it whenever you want to review what is ready and start a batch.


The matching view

The matching view lists your printers, grouped by printer group if you use them, with each printer showing the queue item it has been matched to. For every printer you see:


  • The printer name and image.
  • The matched queue item - file name, thumbnail and key details.
  • A match status - a clean match shows as a selected, checked row. When something is worth a look (a tag mismatch, a file that has not been analysed yet, a possible size or temperature concern, or the wrong filament loaded), the row shows a warning triangle with a Find out why link that opens the queue inspector for that printer.


Each printer has a checkbox, and good matches are selected by default. You can:


  • Uncheck any printer you want to leave out of this batch.
  • Tick or untick a whole printer group at once from the group header.
  • Skip an individual queue item so the printer picks the next best one instead.


The start button at the bottom reads Launch 1-Click Print batch on N printers, where N is the number of printers selected. For a prints figure, check the summary's Total prints: N on X / Y printers stat.


Matching criteria badges

At the top of the matching view, 1-Click Print shows the criteria that are currently active as badges - for example whether files must be analysed before they can match, whether tag matching is strict, and whether bed-size compatibility is being checked. The badges make the matching rules visible up front, so you are never guessing why a printer did or did not get an item.


You can adjust these criteria from the gear/cog dropdown titled Queue matching criteria in the view.


1-Click Print and AutoPrint keep separate matching criteria. Tightening or loosening the rules for 1-Click Print does not change how AutoPrint behaves, and the other way around.


Printer utilisation

The view also surfaces printer utilisation - how many of your printers are about to be put to work versus how many are sitting idle. It is an at-a-glance read on how full the batch will leave your farm, so you can spot when half your machines are about to go unused before you commit to the start.


When utilisation is lower than you would like, it usually means the right filament, nozzle or bed is not loaded somewhere - which is exactly what the to-do list is there to fix.


Skipping and the sort-change warning

If a particular item should wait, skip it rather than pausing it. When you skip an item:


  • The printer is re-matched to the next best queue item.
  • The skipped item shows as a badge at the top of the view, and you can click the badge to un-skip it.


Skipping is temporary. It only applies to the current 1-Click Print session and never touches the item's position in the queue.


Re-sorting your queue while 1-Click Print is open changes which items are matched to which printers. If the order changes, 1-Click Print warns you, because the preview you were looking at no longer reflects the new order. Review the matches again before you start so you do not send the wrong jobs out.


Idle printers and the to-do list

1-Click Print can only start a printer if something in the queue actually matches it. When a printer has nothing to print, the view flags it as idle and nudges you toward the fix.


That nudge ties straight into the to-do list, which reads your entire queue and works out the single highest-impact change that would unlock the most prints - for example "put PLA in this printer and it can print 16 items". So instead of an idle printer being a dead end, 1-Click Print points you at the one filament swap or nozzle change that turns it back into a working machine, then you run 1-Click Print again.


Normal queue vs back-burner

1-Click Print works on your normal queue by default. Normal items are always preferred, and back-burner items are only matched when nothing in the normal queue fits.


The back-burner is a low-priority lane for jobs you want to keep around without them competing for printers. A single Normal priority only checkbox excludes back-burner items from matching, so 1-Click Print only considers your normal queue. An account-wide setting also controls whether back-burner items are eligible for automatic matching at all (see below).


Settings that shape 1-Click Print

Several account-wide settings in Settings > Queue change how 1-Click Print behaves. The scheduling and distribution settings are shared with AutoPrint, so both features stay consistent - they are covered in full in scheduling and distribution. In short:


  • Item scheduling mode - Sequential finishes all copies of one item before moving on; Round-robin cycles one copy of each item at a time, which is handy when a set of parts should finish around the same time.
  • Printer distribution - By printer position (the default), Randomized, or Least recently used to spread wear evenly across the farm.
  • Process queue groups fully before moving to the next group - keeps one group's items together before starting the next, instead of interleaving across groups.
  • Exclude back-burner items from automatic matching - when on, 1-Click Print leaves back-burner items alone (you can still start them manually).


Two settings are specific to 1-Click Print and AutoPrint's start behaviour:


  • Printer beds must be cleared - when on, 1-Click Print only matches items to printers whose bed is cleared, so a new print never lands on top of an old one. The queue's summary cards show an Awaiting bed clear count you can click to jump to the printers that need clearing.
  • Automatically add printers that become available - printers that come online or finish a job while you have 1-Click Print open are added to the selection automatically, so a freshly free machine is not left out of the batch.


To plan the batch before you start it, the timeline shows a live Gantt chart of everything queued and printing, including an estimate of when the whole queue will be done.


Real-world example: some farms run almost everything through 1-Click Print. Tabletop Terrain start the bulk of their prints this way, across a single queue spanning roughly 150 Bambu Lab printers. See how they run their farm.


1-Click Print vs AutoPrint

1-Click Print and AutoPrint share the same auto-matching engine and the same scheduling and distribution settings. The difference is who pulls the trigger.


1-Click Print

AutoPrint

Trigger

You click a button

Starts the next job automatically when a printer is free

Review

You preview and choose what to start

Hands-off, no preview

Bed clearing

You clear the bed (or confirm it is clear)

Bed-clear detection handles it

Best for

Batch starts at the beginning of a shift

Continuous, lights-out printing

Plan

Pro and up

Pro and up


The two work well together: use 1-Click Print for a reviewed batch start, and AutoPrint to keep printers fed after that with no clicks at all. Both honour the same scheduling and distribution rules.


A good rhythm: at the start of a session, load the day's jobs into the queue, walk the floor and clear the beds, then hit 1-Click Print to start everything at once. Whatever stays idle, the to-do list tells you what to load to unlock it.




Updated on: 24/06/2026

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