Printer notifications: errors and alerts your printer reports
Printer notifications: errors and alerts your printer reports
When your printer detects a problem - a clogged nozzle, a stuck filament cutter, a part-cooling fan that has slowed down, foreign objects on the bed - it usually knows about it before you do. Printer notifications are SimplyPrint's way of surfacing those printer-reported errors, warnings, and status messages in one place, so you can see them across your whole fleet and act on them.
This article explains what printer notifications are, how SimplyPrint receives them, where they show up in the panel, and which printer brands report them today.
What is a printer notification?
A printer notification is an event the printer reports about its own health or state. Instead of that message only living on the printer's touchscreen, SimplyPrint captures it and shows it against the right printer, with a timestamp and a severity.
Every printer notification carries:
- A severity - info, warning, or error. Errors are the loudest and can interrupt a print.
- A title and message - a short human-readable description of what happened.
- An optional link - some notifications include a URL to a relevant help page.
- Optional actions - some notifications come with one or more buttons (for example "Resume" or "Retry") that you can press straight from SimplyPrint to respond to the printer.
Some notifications also have an effect on the active print. A printer can report an error that paused the print, cancelled it, or blocked AutoPrint from starting the next job. That context travels with the notification so you understand why a job stopped.
How SimplyPrint receives them
Your printer's connection to SimplyPrint - whether through the SimplyPrint Client, a brand integration, or a firmware plugin - streams these events up in real time. When a printer reports a new issue, SimplyPrint records it against that printer and immediately pushes it to anyone watching the printer in the panel. When the printer reports that the same issue is resolved, the notification is marked resolved automatically.
You do not need to configure anything to start receiving printer notifications. As long as your printer is connected to SimplyPrint, any errors and warnings it reports will show up.
Where notifications show up
Printer notifications appear in a few places in the panel.
The notification bell
Each printer has a notification bell. When a printer has unresolved notifications, a red badge shows the count. Click the bell to open a dropdown that lists every notification for that printer, grouped by day (Today, Yesterday, then by date).
From the dropdown you can:
- Resolve a single notification with the check button once you have dealt with it.
- Use any action buttons the printer attached to the notification (for example responding to a prompt the printer is waiting on).
- Clear all to resolve everything at once.
The error banner
When a printer reports an error (the most severe level), SimplyPrint also shows a red banner on the printer's control panel and on its card in the printer grid. The banner shows the error title and message, any action buttons the printer provided, and a Dismiss button.
Resolving and auto-resolving
A notification stays "unresolved" until either the printer reports it as resolved, you resolve it manually, or it ages out. Unresolved notifications that are more than 7 days old are automatically resolved by SimplyPrint so your bell does not fill up with stale alerts. Resolving a notification does not delete it - it stays on the printer's history so you keep the record.
Turning notifications into maintenance
Printer notifications are not just something to read and dismiss. They can drive your printer maintenance automatically.
SimplyPrint can match specific printer-reported codes to maintenance task templates. When a printer raises a code you have mapped - say, a "rods need lubrication" warning - the matching task is marked as due on that printer. Pair that with a maintenance schedule and SimplyPrint creates the work order for you, on the right machine, without anyone reading codes off a screen.
This is set up on a maintenance task template using the Printer notification based trigger type, where you pick the notifications that should fire the task, choose a match mode (any of these / all of these), and set an occurrence threshold (for example "only after this has happened 3 times since the last maintenance").
The mapping of codes to maintenance tasks is the part that differs by brand. See the brand-specific articles below for what is mapped today.
Supported brands
The brands whose error and health codes SimplyPrint can map to maintenance triggers are growing. Here is where things stand.
Brand | Notifications shown in panel | Mapped to maintenance triggers |
|---|---|---|
Bambu Lab (HMS + device errors) | ✓ | ✓ |
Creality | ✓ | Not yet |
Anycubic | ✓ | Not yet |
Other connected printers | ✓ | Not yet |
Any printer connected to SimplyPrint can surface the notifications it reports in the panel. The built-in mapping of codes to maintenance task templates covers Bambu Lab's Health Management System (HMS) today, and SimplyPrint is expanding that mapping to more brands over time.
Related articles
- Bambu Lab HMS notifications: codes and maintenance triggers - how SimplyPrint reads Bambu HMS and maps codes to tasks
- Printer notifications on Creality, Anycubic, and other printers - device-error coverage beyond Bambu Lab
- Printer maintenance: keep your fleet running smoothly - the maintenance system these notifications can drive
- Task templates: define reusable maintenance procedures - where you attach notification-based triggers
- Maintenance schedules: automate recurring maintenance - turn a "due" task into an automatic job
Updated on: 26/06/2026
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