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Printer Control Panel

The printer control panel provides direct access to your printer's hardware controls and calibration tools. You can access it in several ways:

  • Individual printer page - Navigate to any printer's dedicated page
  • Dashboard shortcut - Click the "game controller" icon on a printer's Dashboard card
  • Bulk control - Select multiple printers on the Printers List page and choose Control Panel from the Bulk Actions menu

On the printer page, the controls live in the Control tab. Skip Objects appears there while a print is running, and Calibration while the printer is idle. Maintenance moved to the Settings tab.

Individual Printer Control​

Basic Controls​

  • Homing - Home all axes to their reference positions
  • Movement - Manually control X, Y, and Z axis positioning
  • Bed Temperature - Set target temperature and monitor bed heating
  • Extruder Temperature - Control and monitor hotend temperatures
  • Chamber Temperature - Monitor chamber temperature (where supported), and set it on printers with a chamber heater
  • Dual-nozzle printers - On a Bambu Lab H2D, H2D Pro, H2C or X2D, each nozzle has its own temperature control, labeled with the printer's own names (L and R, or Main and Aux on an X2D), and setting one heats that nozzle only
  • Light Control - Toggle printer LED lighting
  • Fan Control - Adjust part cooling, auxiliary, and chamber fans

The Control tab puts the movement pad on the left and temperatures and fans on the right. The live camera, print progress, layer count, time remaining and current HMS issues live on the Monitor tab, and pause and stop are in the quick actions row above the tabs, so they stay one click away wherever you are.

Idle and printing printers use the same layout. On an idle printer the axes and fans are available and temperatures read at their current values; during a print the axes are locked so nothing can be driven into the part.

Heated chambers on Bambu Lab printers​

The H2D, H2D Pro, H2C, H2S and X2D chamber heater takes Off (0 °C) or a target from 40 to 65 °C. The control offers 40, 50, 60 and 65 °C presets and shows both limits under the slider. A target between 1 and 39 °C is raised to 40 °C, because the printer won't heat below that. The printer also refuses chamber heating while PLA, PETG or TPU is loaded. When the chamber is turned off on the printer, Printago shows it as off.

Calibration Tools​

Available calibration options vary by printer model:

  • Micro-Lidar Calibration - Calibrate the lidar sensor for accurate first layer detection
  • Bed Leveling - Automatic bed mesh leveling for optimal first layer adhesion
  • Vibration Compensation - Reduce print artifacts caused by mechanical vibrations
  • Motor Noise Cancellation - Minimize stepper motor noise during operation
printer calibration options

Multi-Printer Control​

For managing multiple printers simultaneously:

  1. Select multiple printers from the Printers page
  2. Choose Control → Control Panel from the Bulk Actions menu (or press P)
  3. Control and calibrate all selected printers at once

This is particularly useful for:

  • Running calibrations across your entire printer farm
  • Setting consistent temperatures on multiple machines
  • Coordinated cooling after print completion
control panel controlling 9 printers at once
Multi-Printer Operations

Turning on all fans across multiple printers creates quite the spectacle - just be prepared for the noise! This is particularly effective for rapidly cooling down your entire printer farm after completing print jobs.