Maintenance
Printer maintenance: keep your fleet running smoothly
Printer maintenance: keep your fleet running smoothly Printers need regular maintenance. Nozzles wear out, belts stretch, bearings get dusty, and beds need cleaning. When you're running one or two printers, it's easy to keep track of in your head. But once you have a fleet - whether it's a print farm, a school lab, or a workshop with a dozen machines - maintenance gets complicated fast. Things slip through the cracks. A clogged nozzle takes a printer offline for a day. A loose belt causes a sFew readersBambu Lab HMS notifications: codes and maintenance triggers
Bambu Lab HMS notifications: codes and maintenance triggers Bambu Lab printers raise HMS codes - the Health Management System messages your printer shows when it detects an issue, like a clogged nozzle, a loose belt, a dirty Lidar lens, or foreign objects on the heatbed. SimplyPrint reads those codes and can turn them into scheduled maintenance tasks automatically, on the printer that raised them. This guide explains what HMS is, how SimplyPrint ingests the codes, and how to map them to yourFew readersMaintenance jobs: scheduling and completing printer maintenance
Maintenance jobs: scheduling and completing printer maintenance Maintenance jobs are the core of SimplyPrint's printer maintenance system. A job is a work order for a specific printer - it has a title, description, priority, assigned tasks, and tracks progress from start to finish. Whether you're scheduling routine maintenance or responding to a reported problem, jobs help you keep your printers in good shape and your team on the same page. || The printer maintenance feature is part of the PFew readersTask templates: define reusable maintenance procedures
Task templates: define reusable maintenance procedures Task templates are reusable definitions of maintenance procedures in SimplyPrint. When you create a maintenance job, you select which templates to include - each one becomes a task in the job's checklist. Think of a template as the "recipe" and a task as the instance of that recipe being carried out. This article covers how to create, configure, and manage task templates, including how triggers work to automate scheduling. What are tFew readersSpare parts inventory: track and manage maintenance supplies
Spare parts inventory: track and manage maintenance supplies The inventory feature lets you track spare parts for your printer fleet - nozzles, belts, bearings, PTFE tubes, and more. Set stock levels, get alerted when parts run low, and let the system automatically deduct parts when maintenance tasks are completed. || The spare parts inventory is available on Print Farm, Enterprise, and School plans. Table of contents Adding spare parts Stock management Stock status indicators LoFew readersReporting and resolving printer problems
Reporting and resolving printer problems The problems feature in the maintenance system lets you and your team report issues with printers. Problem reports create a trail of what went wrong and when, and they connect directly to maintenance jobs so issues get tracked from discovery through resolution. || The maintenance feature (including problem reporting) is available on Print Farm, Enterprise, and School plans. Table of contents Reporting a problem Where you can report problemsFew readersMaintenance schedules: automate recurring maintenance
Maintenance schedules: automate recurring maintenance Maintenance schedules are automation rules that watch your printers and create maintenance jobs when certain conditions are met. Instead of manually remembering when each printer needs servicing, schedules handle that for you - checking conditions every hour and creating jobs ahead of time so your team can plan. || Maintenance schedules are part of the Print Farm plan. This article focuses on schedules specifically. For a general overvieFew readersPrinter notifications on Creality, Anycubic, and other printers
Printer notifications on Creality, Anycubic, and other printers Printer notifications - the errors and alerts your printer reports about its own health - are not just for Bambu Lab. Any printer connected to SimplyPrint can surface the device errors and status messages it raises, so you can see them across your fleet and act on them. This guide covers what you get on Creality, Anycubic, and other connected printers today, how SimplyPrint receives those notifications, and how the picture is grFew readersPrinter 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 notificationsFew readers
Display screens & the Hub
Display Screen hardware setup: tablet, TV, or Raspberry Pi kiosk (Print Farm Screen)
Display Screen hardware setup: tablet, TV, or Raspberry Pi kiosk (Print Farm Screen) This guide takes you from nothing to a running wall display, whichever device you want to use - a tablet, a PC or smart TV, or a dedicated Raspberry Pi kiosk. It covers the least hardware you actually need, the pros and cons of each approach, a full Raspberry Pi setup with Raspberry Pi Imager, when a touchscreen is worth it, and how to keep an action-enabled screen secure. For what display screens are and howFew readersDisplay Screens (the Print Farm Screen): live printer status walls
Display Screens (the Print Farm Screen): live printer status walls Display Screens turn any TV, monitor, or touchscreen into a live, auto-updating wall of your printers, with no one logged in. Many people call it the Print Farm Screen, because that's the classic setup: a screen on the shop floor showing every machine at a glance. This guide covers the whole feature - what a screen is, the screen types you can choose, reusable templates, the new SimplyPrint Display OS image for Raspberry Pi, aFew readersThe Hub: a shared printer screen for makerspaces, schools and farms
The Hub: a shared printer screen for makerspaces, schools and farms The Hub is a simpler, stripped-down version of SimplyPrint built for shared printer rooms. It lives at its own web address, shows just your printers, and lets the people around them start prints under their own login - without handing everyone the full panel. This guide explains what the Hub is, the two login modes, and every setting you can use to lock it down. || The Hub is part of the Print Farm, School and Enterprise plaFew readers
Dashboards
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Printer settings & hardware
Enabling PSU control; power supply via GPIO, GCODE etc. in SimplyPrint
| This can currently only be done via our web-platform, and is not available via our mobile app - the PSU control however can be controlled via the app once enabled In this article, we'll show you how to enable so-called "PSU control" support in SimplyPrint, which lets you turn your printer on/off, directly via the SimplyPrint panel and app. This functionality can be enabled in unison with OctoPrint- or Moonraker(for Mainsail & Fluidd)-powered devices. How does it work? Turning your printePopularThe G-code macros feature: custom G-code at every print action
G-code macros let you decide exactly what G-code runs at key moments - when a print starts, finishes, is cancelled, paused or resumed, and when you move an axis, change speed, home, or run a calibration. In this guide you'll learn what macros and snippets are, where to find them, how the new editor works, and how to assign different G-code to different printers. || Not sure what G-code is? Read [What is G-code for 3D printing, and how to read and write it](https://help.simplyprint.io/en/articlePopularFinding the printer settings
| This can currently only be done via our web-platform, and is not available via our mobile app Finding the settings To find the settings for a printer in SimplyPrint, you must simply go to the printer in the SimplyPrint panel _(if you have multiple printers, click on the one you wish to edit). When you've located the printer, simply do the following; Find the settings button in the top right side Click it to go to the settings || Note that if you're a member of an organization in SimplFew readersMy printer is "locked" in SimplyPrint - what does that mean?
In this article we'll talk about what "Locked printers" means in SimplyPrint. What is a "Locked printer"? If a printer is locked, it means you cannot use it: it can't be interacted with in any way; no commands can be sent to the printer, and almost all communication between the printer and our cloud is cut off. This will happen if you have more printers than your subscription plan allows. ![Locked printer](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/f/f/2/2/ff22a914001c1000/image_gaFew readersZ-Offset calibration: fine-tune your first layer remotely
Z-Offset calibration: fine-tune your first layer remotely ||| This feature is coming soon and is not yet available in SimplyPrint. The Z-offset calibration wizard lets you calibrate your printer's Z-offset directly from SimplyPrint - no physical access to the printer's screen required. This is the same "paper test" calibration you'd do locally, but accessible remotely. What is Z-offset? When your printer has a probe (BLTouch, CR-Touch, inductive sensor, load cell, etc.), that probe trigFew readersG-code snippets, variables, and assigning macros
Snippets are the reusable building blocks behind G-code macros, and variables make them work across printers of different sizes and firmware. This guide covers how to create and manage snippets, the full variable reference, math and conditional logic, and how snippets get assigned to your macros and printers. | New to macros? Start with The G-code macros feature for the big picture, tFew readers
Organize your fleet
All about the "Tags" feature
In this article, you'll learn all about the "Tags" feature! About tags What are tags? Tags are small badges that can be applied to printers, files and print queue items, that make the printers or files easy to identify and give each printer or item unique details on either nozzle, material data, or something completely different by assigning custom tags. Tags are meant to make it a breeze to change details such as nozzle size or material info on your printer or files, and providesPopularHow to delete a printer
| This can currently only be done via our web-platform, and is not available via our mobile app To delete a printer in SimplyPrint, you must simply go to the printer in the SimplyPrint panel _(if you have multiple printers, click on the one you wish to delete). When you've located the printer, simply do the following; Find the dropdown in the top right side, to the right of the settings button Click on it, and click the bottom "Delete printer" option || Note that if you're a member of anFew readersPrinter search and filtering: how it works, filter list & more
Printer Search & Filtering: How It Works With our printer search bar, you can combine free-text search (e.g. “Bambu Lab”) and filters (e.g. status:printing). This article covers how to use both, how the clickable top “cards” apply filters automatically, and provides a full filter list. 1. Combining Free Search & Filters Free-text search covers printer ID, printer name, model name, brand, and if printing, the job filename. You can type plain text (e.g. a printFew readersGroup, move, sort and arrange printers in the "Printers" panel (Printer Groups feature)
In SimplyPrint you can create printer groups. In this article we'll go over what they are, how they work and how to set them up. What are "Printer Groups" in SimplyPrint? Printer groups help you organize your printers in SimplyPrint. Use cases include; Setting up one group per rack, table or shelf that your printers are split up in - physically, in your space Group printers by their brand or model Group by **location, warehouse **or room if your printersFew readersMarking a printer "Out of order" - Out Of Order feature
In this article, we'll go over the "Out of order" feature in SimplyPrint; how it works, how it can be used, and what exactly an "Out of order" printer does. What is an "Out of order" printer? When a printer is marked "Out of order", it means you (or someone in your organization) have marked it as being in a non-functional state; not ready to be used before being fixed. There can be various reasons to mark a printer out of order, but it's not just for your eyes; an out-of-order printer is alFew readers