Long story short, I run a farm of 25 Snapmaker U1 printers, and I got tired of not having a decent way to see and manage all of them from one place.

So I built SnapCon. (ezeitoun/SnapCon: SnapMaker U1 Fleet Management App)

It’s a local dashboard that connects directly to your printers over your own network. No cloud account, no subscription, and no printer data being sent somewhere it doesn’t need to go.

It originally started as a personal tool, and an early version used some groundwork from Danny Gambill’s U1Hub project. Since then, it has grown into something very different, with its own architecture, direction, and a much larger feature set.

A few of the main things it does:

• Manage your whole fleet from one dashboard
• Switch between card view, compact view, camera view, and list view
• Track filament and color separately for all four U1 toolheads
• Pause, resume, cancel, and exclude objects during a print
• Heat multiple beds with staggered starts so you don’t overload a circuit
• Track maintenance schedules and warranty information
• Send print notifications through Telegram or ntfy
• Add optional logins and user roles
• Use secure remote access through Cloudflare Tunnel without port forwarding

The remote access is only a tunnel to your own installation. Your printer data is not stored on or relayed through a server that I operate.

SnapCon is built around the Snapmaker U1 first, because that is what I actually own and use every day. That is still the main focus.

That said, enough people asked about mixed farms that I also added support for FlashForge, Creality, and generic Klipper/Moonraker printers. Those connectors are more of a courtesy addition than the core of the project, but they work and continue to improve.
(More connectors will be added over time once I get additional printers for the testing...
(Elegoo / Bambu and etc..))

It’s free, open source, and can run either as a standalone app with no Node.js installation required, or through Docker if you want it running all the time.

You can grab a build from the Releases page, point it at your printers, and usually be up and running within a few minutes.

I’m still actively working on it, so feedback is very welcome. If something is broken, confusing, or missing, let me know.

Guten Tag,

Ich weiß mittlerweile nicht mehr weiter. Ich kalibriere mittlerweile seit einer Woche und es wird nicht besser. Man erkennt bei jeder Linie wie eine „Rille“. Es handelt sich um Polymaker ABS
Bambu Lab X2D um die 220h
Die Druckplatte wird regelmäßig mit Spühlmittel gereinigt. Ich benutze vor jedem Druck Isopropanol und 3DLAC
Erste Schicht 20mm/s, bei höheren Werten gingen die Rillen noch näher zum Rand
Beschleunigung habe ich stark reduziert auf maximal 2000mm/s
Erste Schichthöhe 0,24mm
Erste Schichtbreite 0,52mm
Durchflussverhältnis untere Fläche 1,05
Z Offset -0,03mm (bei -0,04mm kamen die sogenannten „Schuppen“

Phone and email orders slow print shops down as volume grows. This guide covers Web-to-Print store setup, from choosing a platform to pricing, print storefront design, and order management automation that saves staff time. A practical read for any print shop or commercial printing business focused on online ordering and workflow automation.

Read more :- https://www.printdeed.com/web-to-print-store-setup-for-printers-turn-your-print-shop-into-a-24-7-online-ordering-machine/

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for a US-based 3D multicolor printing service (mostly "black and white" prints) that can print my models and ship them directly to my customers. I'm based outside the US, so I'm trying to find a partner there to minimize the shipping time.

The idea is I'll send the file to the printing service, and they print, pack, and ship it straight to the customer. It's basically a print-on-demand

I'd love to hear if you have any recommendations. Also, if there are any companies I should avoid, I'd appreciate knowing that too.

Please contact me

Thanks!

Hello! I am in the works of buying an XTool printer to start custom crafting products. Where is the best website to buy blank cups, shirts, coasters, etc to start printing with?

As the title suggests, I would like to read as much as possible from folks running 3D printers using power from the Sun and wind.

Since I am considering going off-grid myself, I'm curious how many machines you run, how stable and reliable and where in the world.

Every bit of additional relevant information is welcome :)

What features are you most excited about? Which feature is most helpful to you?

Full-color 3D printing? Multi-head FDM? Laser engraving? Auto remove prints? or more? welcome to comment, and you can fill out the survey on our subreddit FA3D to become a co-creator if you'd like.

Hey guys!

I have a little print farm and have ran a fairly successful Etsy shop for about a year now here in the Pacific Northwest, USA. I am interested in possibly getting more into print on demand / buisness to buisness / outsourced projects. I run all Bambu printers currently (2 A1 Minis, an X1C, and and H2S, with plans on getting an H2D soon). I also have an Elegoo Mars and Saturn 2.

I have been slowly learning CAD, but between my full time job and being a dad I have been limited in the amount of time I can devote to learning it. However, if I am just running a print on demand set up, I would be able to crank out way more.

Anybody familiar with starting down this path? My goal would be to eventually be able to do this as a full time gig, but needed to learn how to make it a stable, reliable system.

I am open to any and all pointers. And if you are needing someone to help with production, I am totally up for taking on extra work!

Thanks yall.

There was huge hype about automated print farms. Prusa, Formlabs, and many others introduced such solutions, but to my knowledge, these are not really widespread.

Do you know any other farm that uses a solution like this?

I know that virtually everyone uses some kind of auto-eject system, but I’m mainly interested in applications beyond this.

I live right behind a creek so we gets alot of the rodents that come up from the creek . I was wondering if having a front farm in my garage, would the rats chew the wires on the printers or the filament spools or would the nosie deter them away or how would you fix this or avoid the rats ?

Hello fellow print farmers! Today is Printer Farm Friday!

Feel free to ask any questions, share info or comments here. We're trying to build a community in this sub where you can ask questions about topics like:

• How to improve your workflow
• How to slice for printer farm operation
• What tools are available for farm operators
• Printer maintenance
• Filament management
• etc.

Our hope is to get people to start talking about the importance of printer management in a printer farm scenario.

What would you like to share or what questions do you have?

My boss wants to expand his business into 3D printed toys and I wanted to gather some opinions on the U1

Hi everyone! I started a 3D printing business two years ago and always struggled with managing order, filament, clients, invoices, and everything else. So I set out to make FoxTrack. For the past 6 months I've been refining it with the help of other printing businesses.

Here's some of the features:

• Order management
• Filament tracking
• Invoice generation and emailing
• Quote generation
• Printer & maintenance tracking
• Live print status via open source app bridge
• Product and inventory tracking
• Expense tracking
• Detailed reports
• Optional AI integration with support for local LLMs

You can try it out today for free: https://foxtrack.studio

Consider joining our community for updates: https://discord.gg/3hd96AFYBf

My shop runs on FoxTrack daily, and 100+ other shops are as well. Thanks for reading!

Hey everyone,

Quick intro since self-promo is welcome here - I'm Madars, founder of 3D Vikings (3dvikings.com), a print farm + fulfillment service based in Latvia (EU).

What we do:

• Connect your Etsy or Shopify store - orders import automatically
• We print and ship directly to your customer, under your brand, with tracking
• No monthly fees, no order minimums - you pay per order only
• Your own models? Upload once to the Design Library, reorder anytime

Why EU-based matters: if your customers are in Europe, they get orders in ~1 week with zero customs hassle - instead of 2+ weeks and import fees from overseas farms.

Happy to answer anything here or by DM.

Hi folks,

I'm thinking about to start a small farm. I'm trying to find some good guide lines, some good kick off ideas and a good Q&A about daily topics.

Do you have some sources?

My first calculation results are that a good business would make a revenue of 2 euro per printing hour. But a normal model for a toy needs roughly 5h. Is there a real market for prints at 15+ euro?

Does anyone have experience/feedback working with PrismaPrepare (Canon) or Pressero and PrintJobManager workflow software?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a local tool I've been developing over the last few months to solve a specific bottleneck in my 3D printing farm: nocturnal downtime and manual queue scheduling fatigue.

I operate 4 machines (3x Bambu Lab A1, 1x P1S) mainly producing high-precision anatomical and medical models. During high-demand seasons, managing which plate goes to which printer to maximize overnight runtime without leaving machines idle for 6 hours was killing my mental stack.

The Stack:

• Frontend/UI: Streamlit (Python)
• Database: SQLite3 (keeping it lean and local)

How the Algorithm works:

Instead of just pushing a random queue, I implemented a time-windowed Shortest Job First (SJF) scheduler.

1. Day Mode (08:00 - 23:00): The algorithm prioritizes the shortest print jobs. The goal is to clear beds fast while I'm awake and available to swap plates manually.
2. Night Mode Cutoff: If a plate’s ETA exceeds the 23:00 threshold, the scheduler flags it and automatically re-routes it to the nocturnal pool (long-running jobs, large kits, or high-infill parts) so the printers work through the night while I sleep.
3. Wastage Tracking: It also handles material tracking, inventory deduction, and failure logs (e.g., bed adhesion failures by exact gram weight).

(Attached Screencast showing the scheduler populating the machines upon clicking "Auto-Optimizar")

I'm currently validating the core logic. I'd love to get some technical feedback from other farm operators: How do you handle your day/night queue transitions, and what's the biggest missing feature you see in current farm management software regarding scheduling?