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Research labs

Every print on the record. Nothing leaves the building.

Keep the file, the settings, the approvals, the printer and the outcome together for every print. Run it on your own servers, or on a network with no internet at all.

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Overview
The Pluraprint dashboard: active printers, jobs awaiting review and live progress for each printer

What gets hard

Research printing needs a record, not just a part.

Which settings made that sample?

Months later, nobody remembers the layer height, the material or the printer that produced the batch that worked.

Who can print what

Some projects are sensitive. Their files shouldn't be visible to everyone with access to the printers.

Where the data lives

Grant terms or export rules may say design files can't sit on someone else's servers.

The record

The file, the settings and the outcome, in one place.

Every job keeps its original sliced file, the settings read from it, who approved it, which printer ran it, and how it ended. Reprint the exact same job months later.

  • Original file kept with the job
  • Layer height, infill and supports read from Orca files
  • Printer, material and outcome recorded
Print job
A print job showing its preview, settings, printer and progress

Access

Approvals and access that match your lab.

Roles decide who can submit, who can approve and who can see what. Require a PI's sign-off for a project, or keep a site's printers to its own group.

  • Roles built from individual permissions
  • Per-site roles for shared facilities
  • Single sign-on with your institution's login
Review
The review checklist for a job, with approval still required

Also included

What research groups ask about next.

  • Self-hosted on your servers
  • Fully air-gapped deployment
  • Encrypted file storage
  • Tamper-evident audit log
  • Custom fields for grant or project
  • Automatic retention rules
  • Formlabs resin printers alongside FDM
  • Usage reports by project or group

Before you start

Worth deciding with your IT team.

Where it runs
Hosted, your own servers, or air-gapped. The features are the same; the difference is who runs it.
How long to keep files
Retention rules delete old jobs and their files automatically. Set them to match your data policy.
Who signs off
A lab manager, a PI, or both in sequence. Approvals can have several stages.
How people sign in
Connect your institution's identity provider so access follows your existing accounts.

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Talk to us about your lab's requirements.

Tell us what you print, what it's for, and where the data has to stay. We'll walk through deployment and access with you.

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