Print queue settings: deadlines, columns, beds and reordering

This guide walks through the queue settings page, found under Settings > Queue, and the Reorder tool in the queue toolbar. You'll learn how to turn on deadlines, choose which table columns show, control the basic 1-Click Print behaviour, where working hours live, and how to bulk re-sort your whole queue.

The queue settings page is part of the wider print queue. This article covers the deadline, column, bed and reorder settings. The bigger "Scheduling & distribution" section on the same page (scheduling mode, printer distribution, never skip, max queue positions) has its own guide, linked below.

Table of contents

• Where the settings live
• Queue item deadlines
• Choose your table columns
• 1-Click Print settings
• Working hours
• Reorder the whole queue
• Related articles

Where the settings live

All of these options live on one page: open Settings, then the Queue tab. In the panel that's simplyprint.io/panel/settings/queue. The settings tabs run in the order Slicing, Tagging, Queue, AutoPrint, so Queue is the third tab.

The settings here apply to your whole account, so any organization owner or admin can change them and everyone sees the same behaviour.

Queue item deadlines

Deadlines are the queue's way of tracking due dates so urgent prints rise to the top. They're off by default, so turn them on first.

Enable queue item deadlines

Tick Enable queue item deadlines to show a deadline date field on queue items. Once it's on, every item can carry a due date that you can sort and reorder by (see the Reorder tool further down). It's handy for anyone running prints against real customer or class deadlines.

A deadline locks once an item is added. After that, only queue admins can change it, and when an admin does, the person who submitted the item is emailed about the change.

Default deadline

You can set a default deadline in days. New items added to the queue get a deadline that many days out automatically, so you don't have to set one by hand every time. Leave it empty if you'd rather set deadlines manually.

Require a deadline on every item

If due dates are critical to your workflow, you can require a deadline on every item. With this on, an item can't be added to the queue without one, which stops jobs slipping through without a due date.

Minimum lead time

A minimum lead time sets the earliest deadline an item is allowed to have, measured from when it's added. It stops someone setting a deadline that's already impossible to hit and keeps the dates you're sorting by realistic.

Choose your table columns

The queue table can show a lot of information per item: sort order, file name and thumbnail, tags, printed amount, amount, printer assignment, cost, print time, filament usage, user or quota, order number and other custom fields, date added, status, expected finish, and deadline.

You don't have to live with all of them. The table has its own column controls to show and hide columns and reorder them, so the table shows exactly what your team cares about. Column choices are saved per user, so each person sets their own layout without affecting anyone else.

1-Click Print settings

Two settings on this page control the everyday behaviour of 1-Click Print. The deeper matching and distribution choices live in the Scheduling & distribution section, covered in its own article.

Printer beds must be cleared

When Printer beds must be cleared is on, 1-Click Print only matches queue items to printers whose beds have been cleared. This is the safe default: it stops a new print being suggested on top of a finished one that's still sitting on the plate.

Automatically add printers that become available

With Automatically add printers that become available on, any printer that comes free while you have 1-Click Print open is added to the selection automatically, as long as you haven't already made a manual printer choice. It keeps the batch up to date if a printer finishes mid-review, so you don't have to reopen the dialog.

Working hours

Working hours are not on the queue settings page. They live in your General settings, because they describe when your account is staffed rather than how the queue behaves.

Working hours tell SimplyPrint which hours someone is around to clear beds each day, which is what makes finish-time estimates honest. A print that ends overnight isn't really "done" until someone clears the plate the next morning, and working hours capture that. They feed the "until all done" estimate on the timeline and the expected-finish indicators on each item.

For how to set them up and how expected finish works, see the working hours article.

Reorder the whole queue

The Reorder tool is a one-off bulk re-sort of your queue. You'll find it as the Reorder button in the queue toolbar. The view switcher (the Table, List and Cards icon toggle) is separate from it; Reorder is its own toolbar action.

Open it and you can choose:

• Reorder by - deadline, print time, material, cost, amount, date added, or any custom field.
• Direction - ascending or descending.
• Scope - all items, or a narrower scope.

Pick your options and choose Apply reorder to re-sort the queue.

The Reorder tool changes the order items sit in. It's different from the Scheduling & distribution settings, which decide how an already-ordered queue is handed out to printers. If you want printers to spread out or cycle through items, that's a scheduling setting, not a reorder.

Related articles

• The print queue: overview and item options
• Scheduling and distribution: how items reach your printers
• Working hours and expected finish
• 1-Click Print
• The queue timeline

Updated on: 24/06/2026