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General Settings

General Settings is where you set workspace-wide defaults: what Printago shows you, how thumbnails are drawn, what it records during a print, and how the queue behaves. Open it from Settings > Account > General, change what you need, and click Save at the bottom of the page. Settings apply to the whole workspace, not just your user.

Getting Started​

Getting Started guide shows the setup checklist that walks you through connecting printers, setting up materials, and running your first print. Your progress is saved even while the guide is hidden, so you can turn it off and come back to it later.

Reset progress clears every completed step for this workspace and starts the guide over. You are asked to confirm first.

Materials​

Auto-match materials on new parts matches the filament colors embedded in a part file to your material library when you upload a new part, so the part's material slots arrive pre-filled. Off by default.

AMS slot selection controls which slot the queue assigns when a job's material is loaded in more than one slot on the same printer:

  • Lowest slot first (left-to-right): the leftmost matching slot (AMS A slot 1, then 2, …). Default.
  • Highest slot first (right-to-left): the rightmost matching slot.
  • Most-empty spool first: the matching slot with the least filament remaining, so nearly-empty spools get used up first.
  • Most-full spool first: the matching slot with the most filament remaining.

This only affects printers where the same material is loaded in several slots; when a material is in a single slot, that slot is always used. See Choosing Among Duplicate Slots.

Cameras​

Capture completion snapshots takes one fresh photo from the printer's camera as a print finishes and attaches it to the print job as its picture, so print history shows the part that actually came off the bed. On by default for new workspaces. It works as long as cameras are enabled in that printer's Fuse client, and it is independent of timelapses.

Generate print timelapses stitches the snapshots Fuse captured during a print into a timelapse video attached to the print job. On by default for new workspaces. It needs Fuse cameras and snapshot uploads enabled on the printer's Fuse client. Turn it off if you do not want to pay the encoding time for every print.

Thumbnails​

Thumbnail style picks how Printago draws the pictures of your parts, plates, builds and print jobs. Both options render the same model with the same colors and finishes; they differ in the camera:

  • Orthographic (default): a true isometric view: no perspective and no shadow. Parallel edges stay parallel, two copies of the same feature are the same size wherever they sit on the plate, and the part fills more of the tile because nothing is reserved for a shadow.
  • Perspective: a camera-like view with a soft contact shadow underneath. Edges closer to the camera look larger, which reads more like a photograph of the part.

Pick one by clicking its example tile; the selected tile is outlined and check-marked. Each tile shows the same sample plate rendered in that style, so you can compare them directly before saving.

The style applies to thumbnails rendered from the moment you save: new parts, new uploads, new builds, and newly queued jobs. Thumbnails you already have keep their current look until something re-renders them (for example, re-uploading the part file or assigning different filament to a job). There is no bulk re-render, so a farm with a large parts library will see the two styles side by side for a while after switching.

Data​

Record print telemetry keeps a per-print record of printer telemetry (temperatures, progress, layer timings) attached to each attempt in print history. It powers reliability statistics and print-time analysis. On by default; turn it off if you would rather not have the data retained.

Macros​

Skip the run confirmation checkbox pre-checks the "printer is clear" safety confirmation in the Run Macro dialog, for operators who run macros all day and do not want to tick it every time. The GCODE preview and the per-printer eligibility checks still apply.

FabMatic​

Ignored error codes lists the printer error codes that should not turn FabMatic (continuous printing) off. By default any printer error trips FabMatic off so the queue stops advancing; some printers report nuisance codes that are not real failures for your setup, and stopping continuous printing every time is disruptive.

When a finished or errored print's only problems are codes on this list, FabMatic stays enabled and the queue keeps going. Any code that is not on the list still trips FabMatic off as usual. The list is matched against the printer's health error codes and the print's error code; health warnings never turn FabMatic off, so they are not part of this list.

To add a code, click Add code, type the code, and optionally add a note to remind yourself why it is safe to ignore ("humidity sensor reading, harmless on this unit"). When Printago recognizes the code it shows the matching error description underneath, so you can confirm you entered the right one. Use the trash icon to remove a code.

Error codes vary by brand and length (an 8-character print error like 0500-400E, a 16-character health code like 0582040000010045). Matching is forgiving about formatting: case, dashes, underscores, and leading zeros are ignored, so you can paste a code in whatever form the printer shows it.

caution

Only ignore codes you have confirmed are harmless for your setup. Ignoring a genuine fault means FabMatic can keep starting jobs on a printer that needs attention.

Plate Merging​

These settings control plate merging: combining several pending jobs onto one build plate. Manual merging from the queue is always available and is not restricted by anything here.

Automatically merge compatible jobs fills a printer's plate with other compatible pending jobs when a job is matched to that printer. Off by default.

Merge scope limits what automatic merging may combine: Same order only (jobs from the same order; jobs with no order merge with each other) or Any compatible jobs.

Batching hold holds a newly queued job for up to the given number of minutes so jobs arriving shortly after it can share a plate instead of each claiming its own printer. Set the hold to 0 to turn it off. Release when plate is this full (%) releases the batch early once it covers that share of the usable plate area, so a full plate never waits out the clock. Holds apply only when automatic merging is on, and "Match queue now" or sending a job straight to a printer always bypasses them.

Plate layout sets the geometry the optimizer packs to: minimum clearance between parts, keep-out margin from the plate edge, and the maximum number of parts allowed on one merged plate.

Advanced plate optimization (collapsed by default) decides how plate-wide slicer settings are resolved when jobs with different process profiles share a plate. Per-part settings such as supports, walls, infill, and layer height always follow their own part.

  • Which slicers may share a plate: Allow slicer upgrades (default) merges jobs on the same slicer even when versions differ and slices with the newest version present; Use account default slicer lets any jobs share a plate, sliced with your account default; Exact slicer only keeps jobs apart unless the slicer and version match exactly.
  • Per-setting policies: for each plate-wide setting, Don't merge if different keeps jobs apart when their profiles disagree, while the other choices (take the highest, take the lowest, or use the plate profile's value) resolve the difference so the jobs can still share a plate.