I am a PhD student in a robotics lab, previously we relied on Prusa, Creality, and Ultimaker. Now we are planning to switch to Bambu Lab.
Bambu Lab Studio already has amazing project management features. However, it is very inconvenient to share the printer with multiple users. In our lab environment, we planned to purchase more printers for shared use. It is not possible to share the account because there are so many people in the lab.
If Bambu Lab Studio can offer the feature to share printers with others, or the capability to create a workspace and all the members in the workspace can manage the project together would be excellent.
The sharing feather might be the easiest, many of the other tools can simply share a link to allow other people to engage their stuff.
Workspace might be more advanced. It is good to have and I am willing to pay for this feature if it has a reasonably free tier for small teams.
To be clear about my situation. The printer can only connect to the guest WiFi but not the school’s internal WiFi. The LAN is not accessible. Even if we connect to the guest’s WiFi, the devices can not reach each other for security reasons. Thus, I can only use the internet to send out the task or use the SD card for that. However, the SD card is cold-swapped, which is another inconvenience.
It is not a big issue right now since we have only one A1 Combo. But it will be a management tragedy when we get a batch. The lack of the sharing feature slows our pace in replacing our old printers with Bambu Lab.
We would kindly request to have this feather. Please let us know if that is not on the roadmap and will not do it in the near future. So we can find alternatives. Thank you!
Unfortunately no. As I mentioned, we have managed network. The printer will never allowed to connect with the internal LAN. There is a public WiFi for guests, but the devices on that network cannot talk with other devices, their VLANs are isolated.
Thanks for your advice. We are talking about 10+ people in the lab, and we are hiring more professors and PhDs. So, it is expected to be even more like 20+ people. It is not realistic for these many people to share the same account. We are also using our personal computers for work (there is no shared computer in the lab besides servers).
Sharing printers with multiple users is a strong must for us.
This has been asked for so many times and I have no idea how Cura handled this easily 10 years ago yet remains a complete mystery to the Bambu folks. Almost as frustrating is the “suggestions” about pin codes or enterprise printers that aren’t even accurate or the mere suggestion that is would be acceptable for 10-20 professionals to simply “share” a single account as the best solution for this problem that Bambu continues to ignore.
Plus one from myself as well. Being able to “partition” devices that run on the same account would be super useful. I manage printers from 2 locations and would like be be able to give access to all/some of the machines in one location to a user
I run a print shop and am actually surprised that I can’t easily share this printer across multiple users. Every other printer in the building is available for everyone in the shop.
I don’t think that this is great situation for a number of reason, but I think that your statement misses the point the the OP and most other people, myself included that do not understand why having the ability to have multiple users able to access the same machine on a LAN would be that hard to do.
I think that for such a nice machine that we should not have to settle for workarounds.
It was an issue of not enough prestigious meeting rooms and a whole lot of new sales staff, IBM had to make a time management tool to arrange for the conference rooms, A limited resource, available to a mass of people…
What you need is chanelizing software. I had a demo of a product that would time manage and run tasks on the printers…
You don’t need a re-vamp of the whole source, you need machine accounts, so you manage your worker pool, and the single machine account manages the printing. and updating the machine account.
It does ad a layer, but this is the nature of app based internet 1. uh oh…
Just like “putting things in the cloud” is now becoming much less attractive, I started to bite, then i literally found myself in sewage up to my waist carrying a large cisco router… figured there ain’t no cloud, just someone else’s hardware, and i learned it hard. I was carrying a clients cisco switch, while I pulled them out of the failed colo…Later I did an analysis for a client, explained that at the current track they would be spending over a million a month before end of year. I was wrong, they didn’t make November… Then they proceeded to be confused why they were not profitable… There are solutions to this problem with or without Bambu,which is probably what made them start locking the barn doors.
I work at a college with over 20 students working for me. The ability to have myself and a colleague as the admin and give delegate access to students would be extremely helpful. Currently, they send me project files in a Teams channel and then whoever is manually running the queue opens and prints them. Ideally we would have admins, queue managers, and users.
Plus, it would be nice to be able to share my printer from my personal account to my work account so that I can access my home printer without logging in/out. It is making me consider OctoEverywhere for that.