Product tour

Everything between “can you print this?” and “it’s on the shelf.”

Pluraprint handles the part of 3D printing that isn't printing: the requests, the approvals, the queue, the printers, the pickup, and the record of all of it. Here's each piece, with real screens.

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The Pluraprint dashboard: active printers, queue wait, jobs awaiting review, a printer alert and live progress for each printer — Overview

Intake

Upload once. Pluraprint reads the rest.

People upload the sliced file they already have, a .3mf from Bambu Studio or OrcaSlicer or a .form from PreForm. Pluraprint pulls out the printer model, print time, material and a preview, then asks only for what your lab needs on top.

Upload from a browser or a station
Printer model, print time and material read from the file
Your own required fields: course, project, cost center, purpose
Every submission kept, so reprints never need the file again

A print job page: a blue gear preview, 1h 30m duration, printer Studio P1S 01, purpose and department fields, slicer settings and a 64% progress bar — Print job

Approvals

The rules you'd otherwise keep in your head.

Write down how your lab actually decides: who can approve what, which jobs need a second look, what's off limits. Pluraprint applies it to every job and shows the reviewer exactly what's still missing.

Sign-off by role, with multiple stages when one isn't enough
Conditions on print time, material, cost, site, time of day and more
Hard limits: longest print, most material, blocked materials
Quotas per person or role, per day, week or month
Time-limited print restrictions, with a reason

The review screen for a drone frame: staff review still needed, print access and job owner already satisfied — Review

Queue

One line for every printer, and it moves on its own.

Approved jobs wait in a single shared queue. When a printer finishes and is cleared, Pluraprint gives it the next job it can actually run: same model, right material loaded, same site. Nobody has to walk the floor looking for an idle machine.

Matching on printer model, loaded material and site
Priority and deadlines for work that can't wait
An estimate of how long the queue will take to clear
Cancel, prioritize or reprint, each with a record of who did it

The print queue: jobs awaiting approval, each with a part thumbnail, printer model, duration, submitter and a Prepare button — Print queue

Printers

Every printer, and what it's doing right now.

Status, progress and time remaining for every machine, whether it's a Bambu Lab P1S in the open studio or a Form 4 in the back room. When a printer reports a problem, you get it in plain words, not an error code.

Live status, progress and time left
Printer errors in plain language, like “Filament ran out”
Loaded filament synced from Bambu Lab AMS units
Take a printer down for maintenance with a visible reason
Pause, resume and stop from the web or a station

The printer list: each printer's current part, who submitted it, its status and progress, including a paused printer with an error and one down for service — Printers

Stations

A kiosk for the people standing next to the printers.

Put a screen in the lab. Walk-up users submit and identify themselves with a card, a PIN, or a single-use QR code on their phone. Staff get big buttons for the things they do all day: clear a plate, resume a print, mark a machine down.

Templates decide what each station can do
Card, PIN and phone QR identification
Prepare and approve jobs on the spot

The station kiosk: summary tiles and a grid of printer cards with pause, stop and resume buttons — Station

Mobile app

Check on the lab from anywhere on campus.

The Pluraprint app for iPhone and Android is for the people running the floor. See every printer and the whole queue, take a machine down, update loaded materials, and scan parts out at pickup with the phone's camera.

Live printer status and progress
Searchable queue and job history
Printer downtime and loaded materials
Pickup scanning with the camera

The Queue tab in the Pluraprint app, listing jobs with owners, status and progress

The Printers tab in the Pluraprint app, showing each printer's current print

Pickup

Finished parts get a home, not a pile.

Turn on pickup and every finished print gets a shelf or bin and a label. People collect with a scan, and anything left too long can trigger an email or be cleared after a set time.

Bins and shelves

One bin per person, next free bin, by surname, or staff's choice.

Scan to collect

A barcode scanner or a phone camera, at the counter or on the go.

Pickup stations

A counter screen by the shelves and a board on the wall.

Uncollected prints

Remind, restrict or clear out prints nobody came for.

Reporting

Know what the lab did, not what it felt like.

Every job leaves a record, so the numbers are already there when someone asks: jobs per day, success rate, material by type and color, peak hours, and utilization and OEE per printer. Filter by site, printer, person or project, and export.

Utilization and OEE per printer and site
Success rate, with the reasons prints failed
Material used by type, brand and color
Usage by person, course or department

Utilization and OEE for each printer over the last 30 days — Analytics

Admin & security

The parts your IT department will ask about.

Pluraprint runs hosted, on your own servers, or fully air-gapped, with the same features in each.

Single sign-on

SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect, and CAS.

Roles & permissions

Build roles from individual permissions, per site if needed.

Audit log

Every setting, role and approval change, with who and when.

Multiple sites

Group printers by building or network.

Your branding

Your name, logo and color in the app and in emails.

Data retention

Delete old jobs and their files on a schedule.

Backups

Scheduled database backups for self-hosted installs.

API keys

Script against your own deployment.

Optional parts like pickup are modules you switch on for the whole deployment.

FAQ

Questions people ask us

Something else? Ask us directly.

What is Pluraprint?

Pluraprint is software for running shared 3D printers. It collects print requests, routes them through approval, keeps one queue across every printer, sends each job to a machine that can run it, and tracks it through to pickup and reporting. Your slicer and your printers stay as they are.

Who is Pluraprint for?

Pluraprint is for teams that print for other people: university makerspaces and teaching labs, print farms and production teams, and research groups. If more people send you prints than you have staff to chase them, it's built for you.

Which printers does Pluraprint work with?

Pluraprint works with Bambu Lab P1S, H2S and H2D printers, and Formlabs Form 3 and Form 4 printers, including the B, L and BL variants. Different brands and models can share one queue. We add printers based on what customers run, so ask if yours isn't listed.

How is Pluraprint different from a slicer or Bambu Studio?

A slicer turns a model into instructions a printer can follow, and vendor software controls one printer at a time. Pluraprint handles everything around that: who asked for the print, whether it's approved, which printer gets it, and what happened afterward.

How long does setup take?

Getting started is three steps: create a site, install a small agent on the same network as your printers, and add the printers. Then set up who can print and who approves. Quotas, stations and pickup can come later, when you need them. How long it takes mostly depends on your IT process, not the software.

How much does Pluraprint cost?

Pluraprint is licensed per deployment. The price depends on the size of your operation and whether we host it or you run it yourself. Email hello@pluraprint.com with roughly how many printers you have and how you'd like to run it, and we'll send a quote.

Go deeper

See it with your printers in it.

Tell us what you run and how prints reach you today. We'll set up a walkthrough around that, not a slide deck.

Book a demo Email hello@pluraprint.com