The print history feature: your searchable log of every print job

Every print your connected printers run is logged automatically in SimplyPrint, and anything that ran on a machine we are not connected to can be added by hand or imported in bulk. The print history page is a searchable, filterable table of those jobs, with filament used, time taken, cost, who started it, and how it went. It is the audit trail for a print farm and the "who printed what" record for a school or workshop.

This guide covers the print history table, its columns, the filters and search, logging and importing prints, archiving, CSV export, and the per-job detail page. You will find it under Print history in the left menu, or directly at simplyprint.io/panel/jobs.

Contents

• What the print history shows
• Logging and importing prints
• The columns
• Filtering and searching
• Archiving jobs
• Exporting to CSV
• Row actions: reprint, re-queue, download
• The job detail page
• How many jobs you can see
• Plan availability

What the print history shows

Once your first print finishes, it appears in the list automatically. There is nothing to switch on. Every job carries:

• Its outcome (done, stopped, failed, or still ongoing)
• The file that was printed
• How long it took versus how long it was estimated to take
• Start and end timestamps
• The printer it ran on
• Filament used per material, in grams and meters
• The calculated cost of the print

On an organization account, the history covers the whole account, so an admin can see every user's prints in one place. Regular members see their own jobs.

Logging and importing prints

Not every print goes through a connected printer. A machine you have not bridged, a laser cutter or CNC, a job that ran while the printer was offline, or years of history from before you used SimplyPrint: all of it can live in the same table.

Two buttons in the toolbar handle this.

• Log a print opens a form for a single job. Pick the machine (a real printer, a virtual machine, or no machine at all), set the outcome and timing, record the filament used, and save. See how to log a print by hand.
• Import takes a CSV or JSON file and creates the whole batch at once, mapping your columns to ours. See how to import your print history.

Both need the Edit print history permission, and both are available on every plan. Neither sends anything to a printer: they record what already happened.

Manually logged and imported prints share one allowance per account, separate from the jobs your printers track themselves: 1,000 on Free, 2,500 on Basic, 10,000 on Pro, and unlimited on Print Farm, School and Enterprise. Prints we track for you never count towards it, however many you run. The import preview tells you where you stand before it writes anything.

The same permission also lets you edit an existing job. A print we tracked automatically only allows its outcome, rating, completion and note to change, because the rest came from the printer. A job you logged or imported is fully editable.

The columns

The table has a fixed set of columns. You can show, hide, and reorder them with the column controls above the table.

• Status - a colour-coded badge: green for done, red for failed, red for stopped (cancelled), and a blue badge for ongoing prints.
• File - the filename with a file-type icon. Click a row to open the full job.
• Print duration - how long the print actually took, alongside the slicer's estimate.
• Start and end dates - when the job started and finished.
• User - who submitted the job (and who started it, if different). This column only appears for org admins who can view all print history.
• Printer - the printer the job ran on, linking through to that printer's page.
• Filament - filament used per material strand, in grams and meters.
• Cost - the per-job cost (material, and on Print Farm and up, also electricity and labour). See the print cost article for how this is calculated.
• Source - how the job was recorded. A print we tracked live carries no badge; one you added yourself shows Manually logged, and one you brought in from a file shows Imported. This column only appears once your account actually has logged or imported jobs.
• Machine type - what kind of machine ran it, for accounts tracking lasers, CNCs or other non-printer machines. It only appears once you have a job from something other than a filament printer.

On Print Farm and up you can also add custom fields, which show as extra columns (for example a project name, billing code, or class).

Filtering and searching

The toolbar above the table lets you narrow the list. Filtering runs on the server, so it searches your whole history, not just the page you are looking at.

• Status - tick any combination of Done, Stopped, Failed, and Ongoing.
• Printer - filter by one or more printers, printer models, or printer groups.
• Date range - pick a start and end date.
• User - filter by one or more users. This filter only appears for org admins who can view all print history.
• Source - show only tracked, only manually logged, or only imported jobs. Like the column, it appears once you have jobs of more than one source.
• Search - the search bar matches on filename (up to 50 characters).

Sorting works on the filename, dates, status, and cost columns. Click a column header to sort.

Archiving jobs

Archiving hides finished jobs from the default list without deleting them, which keeps a busy farm's history tidy while still keeping the records. Archived jobs stay fully intact, and you can unarchive them at any time.

To archive jobs:

1. Tick the jobs you want to archive (or open a single job).
2. Click Archive in the toolbar, or use the archive row action.
3. The jobs drop out of the default view.

An Archived status filter lets you switch between three views:

• Only non-archived (the default)
• Only archived
• Show all

This filter only appears once you have permission to see archived jobs. To bring jobs back, select them in the archived view and choose Unarchive.

Exporting to CSV

You can download the visible history as a CSV file for billing, reporting, or your own analysis. The export is thorough: it includes job status, archived flag, cancel reason, rating, filename, start and end times, the user and who started it, whether it was AutoPrinted, the printer, filament usage (in mm, grams, and as raw JSON), print time, the full cost breakdown, any linked queue item, and every custom field.

To export, click the export button in the toolbar, choose your date range and columns, and download.

Row actions: reprint, re-queue, download

Each row has a set of quick actions (and the same actions appear on the job detail page):

• Reprint - start the same file on a printer again. See the reprint article for when a job is reprint-eligible.
• Re-queue - add the print back to your print queue (revives the original queue item, or clones it into the queue).
• Download - download the underlying print file, if it is still on our servers.

Reprinting or downloading other people's jobs needs the relevant permission from your account admin. Reprint and download actions only show on jobs whose file is still on our servers.

The job detail page

Click any row to open the full job at simplyprint.io/panel/jobs/ followed by the job ID. The detail page shows:

• A header with the file name, status, printer, the user who submitted it, durations, and filament usage
• A print info box with the slicer-derived details (nozzle, temperatures, layer height, infill, slicer name, and more) plus any custom field values
• A material box with the filament spools used, by colour, type, and grams or meters per extruder
• Action buttons (reprint, re-queue, download, and archive or unarchive)
• The job timeline - a chronological record of everything that happened during the print

A job you logged or imported with no real printer behind it shows the machine name you typed, or "No printer", in place of the live printer panel.

The timeline is the heart of the detail page. It is covered in its own article: How to read the print job timeline.

How many jobs you can see

Your plan sets how far back you can open individual jobs. On plans with a limit, the most recent jobs are fully accessible and older ones beyond the limit are shown as placeholder rows in the table, with their detail pages locked behind an upgrade prompt. Print Farm, School, and Enterprise have no limit, so your full history stays open.

Plan availability

School and Enterprise plans include everything in the Print Farm column. See the pricing page for the full comparison.

Related articles

• How to log a print by hand in your print history
• How to import your print history from a CSV or spreadsheet
• How to read the print job timeline
• The statistics dashboard
• The reprint / print again feature
• Print cost calculations
• Virtual machines: add lasers, CNCs and log-only printers
• AI failure detection

Updated on: 19/08/2026