Share printers with multiple users

[cccat]

I know it has been discussed a bit here:

One Printer with more than one User

Can a Bambu Lab X1 printer have more than one User/Account linked so that it can be shared in the family by more than one interested person.

Multiple accounts on printer

One issue is that only 1 account can exist on the printer at a time. As a result, my partner cannot print a project remotely which is a huge shame. That’s fine if you’re one person but very inconvenient because the file needs to be sent to me to manually load under my account. This would be a very easy fix and a great sale feature.

I still want to discuss this a bit.

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!

[mugglesmuggle]

Would LAN mode work for you? I’m not sure if it has any user-level authentication, it might just be a PIN code.

[AlfredCallenbach]

You can share/use the same account, no big problem i think.

or/and use a computer for share 1 Bambu Studio profile.

[cccat]

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.

[cccat]

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.