Maintenance
Bambu 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 readersPrinter maintenance: keep your fleet running smoothly
SimplyPrint's maintenance feature (Print Farm, School and Enterprise plans) lets you define task templates, schedule maintenance by time, print hours, filament, print count or failures, run jobs with checklists, track spare parts and report printer problems. Wear modifiers make nozzle and build plate tasks come due sooner or later by what was printed. Open problems, overdue or due-soon maintenance and printer notes show on the printer cards and on the printer's page, and overdue maintenance shows when you start a print.Few 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 readersMaintenance schedules: automate recurring maintenance
Maintenance schedules create maintenance jobs automatically, based on time, print hours, filament used, print count, due task templates or failures. For a print-hours schedule you can enter how many hours each printer has printed since the work was last done. Printers a schedule makes due within 2 days of the first of them get one batch job. A schedule's own print-hours trigger counts raw hours; tasks that count nozzle or build plate wear come due by hours adjusted with wear modifiers.Few readersMaintenance jobs: scheduling and completing printer maintenance
A maintenance job is a work order with a task checklist for one or more printers. Jobs go from scheduled (or overdue) to in progress to completed. Quick start on a printer's Maintenance widget starts a job and links its open problems. Jobs a schedule makes due together share a batch, which closes to newcomers once a printer in it is started, a job completed or a task ticked. The Batch jobs table lists batches soonest first with their due days. In a batch you can Start all, Mark all done and Complete all, and Next due opens the next job due. A usage-based task shows its hours against the threshold, such as 305 h of 500 h, and which wear modifiers adjusted them.Few readersTask templates: define reusable maintenance procedures
A task template is a reusable maintenance procedure (instructions, category, spare parts, tools, scope, estimated time) that becomes a task in a job's checklist. Triggers mark it due: always, time interval, usage-based print hours, problem-based or failure-based, and schedules turn due tasks into jobs. A usage-based template can count nozzle or build plate wear, so wear modifiers make it come due sooner or later by what was printed. Import defaults adds built-in templates, including Replace nozzle (500 h) and Replace build plate (1,000 h).Few readersReporting and resolving printer problems
Anyone with the Report problems permission can report a printer problem from the Problems tab, a cancelled print or the printer's Maintenance widget. Open problems show as a red flag on the printer card, can be filtered with has_open_problems:true, open the Maintenance widget by themselves, and are resolved manually or when a linked maintenance job is completed.Few 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 readersWear modifiers: nozzle and build plate maintenance that follows what you print
Wear modifiers make usage-based maintenance tasks, such as Replace nozzle every 500 print hours, come due sooner or later by what was printed. Rules in Settings > Maintenance > Wear modifiers say a nozzle or build plate wears a percentage faster or slower by material (abrasive, wood-filled, glow-in-the-dark, carbon fibre), nozzle type, build plate type or printer. Print Farm, School and Enterprise.Few readersAdding print hours from before SimplyPrint to a printer's runtime
If a printer ran before you added it to SimplyPrint, enter its total print time in printer settings → General → "Print hours before SimplyPrint". It is added to the printer's lifetime runtime in maintenance, but maintenance schedules do not count it. It is optional, and an estimate is fine. Many printers show their total print time on their own screen.Few 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
Custom dashboards: build your own fleet overview
What custom dashboards are, who they help, plan availability, and how they differ from Statistics, Display Screens and class dashboards.Few readersAdding and arranging dashboard cards
How to build a custom dashboard: add cards from the palette, use the bulk pickers, drag to reorder, resize, and configure each card including scoping to printer groups.Few readersFluid vs rows: dashboard layouts explained
The two dashboard layout modes, fluid and rows, explained, with per-row alignment and guidance on when to use each.Few readersDashboard card types explained
Every card you can add to a custom dashboard, grouped by what it does: statistics and graphs, fleet and queue, history and maintenance, account and people, and utility and layout.Few readersManaging dashboards: plan limits, sharing and permissions
Creating, switching and deleting dashboards, how many each plan allows, sharing with your team, and the Manage dashboards permission.Few readers
Printer settings & hardware
The 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/articlePopularEnabling 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 printePopularFinding the printer settings
Open a printer in the SimplyPrint panel and click the settings button at the top right (web only). The General tab has the printer name, icon and cost settings. The Advanced tab has the bed type, max print size and temperatures, and under Nozzles & extruders each nozzle's size, volume type and nozzle type. Modifications has webcam, bed leveling, filament sensor and PSU settings.Few 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 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 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 providesSome readersHow 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
The printer search combines free text (printer name, model, brand, file name) with filters such as status:printing, has_open_problems:true or maintenance_due_within:7d. Filters are kept in the URL, so a filtered view can be bookmarked. Includes the full filter list.Few 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 readersCustomise your sidebar: reorder, hide items and set your home page
Customise your sidebar: reorder, hide items and set your home page Account admins can reshape the panel's left sidebar for everyone in the account. Change the order of items, hide the ones you don't use, group them with separators, and set which page your team lands on when they sign in. This guide covers who can do it and how. Sidebar customisation is part of the Print Farm plan, and it's included on the School and Enterprise plans too. On other plans you'll see a locked preview so you cFew readersShift-click to skip confirmations: pause, cancel, clear the bed and more without a dialog
Hold Shift while you click Pause, Resume, Cancel, Clear bed, Unassign or Delete spool, Resolve problem, Start or Complete maintenance, or Archive print job, and SimplyPrint does it immediately without the confirmation dialog. The first Shift-click on each action asks once. Admins set the default per action in Settings → General → Confirmations (Always show the dialog; Shift-click skips the dialog; Skip the dialog, Shift-click shows it), and members with the Choose their own confirmations permission can override it under Your information. Deleting files always asks.Few readersPrinter notes: leave a note on a printer for the next shift
A printer note stays with the printer and shows on its card, its page, the start print window, 1-Click Print, the Clear bed window and its settings. Add or edit it from the printer's ... menu or right on its page. Reading and writing notes are their own permissions, See printer notes and Edit printer notes.Few readers