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Quick Start Guide

Get up and running with Printago in minutes. This guide walks you through the essential setup and your first print job.

Before You Begin​

Prerequisites

Before starting with Printago, ensure you have:

  1. Completed initial setup of your Bambu Lab printer(s)
  2. Paired your printer(s) with your Bambu Cloud account
  3. Enabled cloud profile syncing in your slicer

Enable Cloud Profile Sync​

Printago automatically syncs slicing profiles from your Bambu Lab Account. When you modify a profile, changes apply to all associated parts. Adding a new printer? No need to re-slice existing models - Printago assigns profiles to parts and handles slicing automatically in the background.

In Orca Slicer or Bambu Studio:

  1. Ensure you're logged into the slicer with your Bambu Lab account.
  2. Open Preferences
  3. Navigate to Presets section
  4. Enable "Auto sync user presets"
Orca Sync Preferences

Adding Your Printers & Profiles​

Bulk Import

Printago imports all your Bambu Lab printers at once - no need to add them individually!

  1. Navigate to Printers in the sidebar

  2. Click Configure Bambu Printers

    Blank Printers Screen

  3. Enter your Bambu Cloud credentials and complete Bambu's 2-Factor authentication as prompted

    Enter Bambu Lab Credentials

  4. After authentication, you'll be taken through a short, two-step wizard allowing you to select which 3d printers to pair and profiles to import.

    Free Unlimited Printers

    Printago allows you to connect and use unlimited printers - free!

    Bambu Lab Connected Printers Slicing Profiles

Configuring Printer Defaults​

  1. On the final screen of the Bambu Wizard, printers slicing configuration must be set. Familiar dropdown boxes will allow you to set a profile for Printer, Filament, and Process.

    Printer List

    Printago uses these settings for slicing and material matching.

    Printer Config

All printago parts are sliced on-demand as needed based on your printer and part configurations.

Bulk Configuration

Use the Save to all X printers in this group option to quickly configure multiple identical printers of the same type at once.

Creating Your First Print​

Start with an STL file to understand Printago's slicing and printing workflow.

File Support

Printago supports STL, STEP, 3MF, and OpenSCAD part types.

.gcode and .gcode.3mf are not supported.

  1. Go to Products → Parts, and click Add Part

    Part Screen

  2. Upload your file and give it a name and description.

    Optionally you can set:

    • Filament Type to restrict the part to only printing on printers with certain materials (e.g. PLA, ABS)
    • Process Profile to override any printer's process slicer setting

  3. Click Create and our part will be saved and ready for printing!

    Part Config

Starting Prints​

  1. After saving your part, you'll be brought back to the parts list. Find your part, and click it.

    Find Part

  2. From this screen you can edit the part or print it. Click Print button in the upper right.

    Part

  3. Select Next Available Printer to automatically match your part with compatible printers, or choose a specific printer manually.

    Printer with Specific Tags allows you to print to a dynamically defined group of printers.

    Part
    Printer Matching

    Printago automatically matches parts to compatible printers based on requirements like material type, nozzle size, and user-defined tags.

  4. Here you can adjust the quantity, but for now just click Print!

    Print Button

  5. You'll be shown a confirmation screen of the print. Head over to the Print Queue to check out the jobs.

    Print Button

  6. We can see that our item is queued up successfully, however, it didn't move to In Progress. Printago does not take exclusive control of your printers, and you must let us know when the bed is clear and each printer is ready for a print. Click on Printers next.

  7. When first connected, all your printers will be Awaiting clear & ready state.

    Queue View

  8. Click on a printer that you'd like to send your first job to, and then find and click the Confirm clear & ready button in the upper right corner.

    Printer Screen
    Clear & Ready State

    Printers must be marked "Clear & Ready" before they'll accept new jobs. This lets Printago know it can send a print.

  9. Head back to the printers page, and using the checkboxes select other printers you'd like to mark as ready. Click the multi-action dropdown (XX Printers Selected) -> Availability -> Clear & Ready.

    Printers Screen

  10. To let Printago know a jobs can be sent, click the confirmation button and parts will start assigning to your printers instantly! Head back to the Print Queue next.

    Mark Ready
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    You can safely use "Select All" when clearing print beds - any printer that's currently printing will ignore the "Clear and Ready" command.

Queue Management​

  1. Printago automatically slices files and initiates printing on selected printers.

    Mark Ready

  2. From the In Progress tab, we can select jobs using the checkboxes. The multi-action button allows you to Pause, Resume, and Cancel selected jobs.

    Mark Ready

  3. On the Queued screen, drag jobs to adjust their priority order. Select multiple jobs to cancel them using the multi-action button. Jobs marked as Cancelled or Errored can be moved back into the queue using the Retry action.

    Mark Ready
    Queue Processing

    The Printago Queue processes jobs top-to-bottom order.

Remember when print jobs finish, to mark the printer as Clear and Ready!

Thank You and Happy Printing!

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