Very strange this doesn’t exist. We have a Bambu Lab printer at my office and no one but one guy can use it. It was meant to be communal but it’s not.
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Anyone can use it, they just need to login to the Handy app with that same account.
It’s obnoxious and a huge glaring oversight but it is what it is I suppose. I had to login to the app with my Google account on my wife’s phone so she could use it.
Set up one email address for the printer. Communal Bambu account.
Share that account with all the devices that need it.
I have been doing this for 3 years with no issue.
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Set up one email address for the printer. Communal Bambu account.
Share that account with all the devices that need it.
I have been doing this for 3 years with no issue.
yes that glue solution works if you have 2-5 users and only one printer. But if you have lot of users it wont work. Also if you have communal printer at work/school and own printer at home it is just pure pain to logout/login all time to access both.
We run 2 printers between 16 people. Everything works like a charm. We have the login on probably about 20 or 22 devices, since a few of us have it downloaded on our phones as well.
If you have more than that, it is better to switch over to using USB instead. The makerspace that I volunteer at now has 6 H2S printers, we just keep a small bucket of cheap USB sticks and a instruction page next to the station.
It doesn’t make sense to set up an account when someone is only going to use a printer 1 or 2 times.
Then there is always Bambu Farm Manager.
And (not directed at you), I do not understand this topic. You have solution 1,2,3,4, and 5… then everyone wants solution 18.
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And (not directed at you), I do not understand this topic. You have solution 1,2,3,4, and 5… then everyone wants solution 18.
But you only have shared printers and no private ones, right? So yes, you can use one shared account. But once you get your own printers, you either need to share your home printers with your work community or switch between multiple accounts. To me, it seems like you don’t understand the topic because you don’t have that problem. And is it really the case that if you don’t need a feature, others shouldn’t need it either? As for USB, let’s just assume you said that as a joke.
I have 3 personal BL printers for personal use.
What is stopping me from having a personal account as well?
In terms of switching, in a work environment, most people have a work computer as well to keep them seperate. In terms of on a phone, you can dual boot an app.
I took the solutions that already exist and ran with them. I do not need a new one.
Please explain why those do not work for you? Help me understand what you mean.
Not a joke at all. That’s why these machines have a USB or MicroSD port.
It is the best way for someone to use a machine without connecting their digital signature to it. In the case of the makerspace, we have probably had 2 to 3 thousand people use them, even if there was support for hundreds of accounts over the cloud, that limitation would be hit in a few weeks.
I am having a hard time envisioning any other choice, either it is on the same account or it isnt.
I can understand that the current method for sharing a printer among multiple users is perceived as cumbersome by some.
However, I also have to shake my head at some of the responses here.
I am increasingly noticing that modern society has become quite spoiled and complacent—triggering an immediate “shitstorm” if one has to press even a single extra button or click one too many times.
I own several printers and have my own dedicated Bambu Lab account.
My girlfriend also has her own Bambu Lab account.
Each of us has our own Windows user account, through which we can run our own instances of Bambu Studio with our own personalized settings.
My girlfriend uses my A1m almost exclusively.
Only in exceptional cases does she use one of the other printers—and when she does, she uses my Bambu and Windows accounts. (The reasoning behind this approach is as follows:
The Access Key for the printer changes whenever a user logs out. Since all my printers (with the exception of the A1m) are accessible via FTP—and because I don’t want to constantly update the Access Keys within my FTP credentials—this represents the sole exception where my girlfriend has access to both my Bambu and Windows accounts.
Whenever I need the A1m for printing small prototypes, my procedure is as follows:
- I walk over to the printer.
- I log my girlfriend out of the printer (alternatively, I can simply ask her to remove the A1m from her account since I need to print).
- I log the printer into my own account using the Bambu app (this can also be done via Bambu Studio).
Done! — and the whole process takes less than a minute.
And honestly—let’s be real—most of the time, you’re going to be hanging around near the printer anyway. Presumably, you’re there to load a different filament,
perhaps swap out the build plate, or change the hotend/nozzle.
So, while you’re at it, you can just quickly log into the printer on the side.
In a makerspace environment, this method should work just as well; likewise, this approach ought to be perfectly viable in a workplace setting.
Consequently, I really can’t make sense of some of the complaining I see here.
What exactly do you people do when the act of “consuming sustenance” becomes too much of a chore? Do you just starve, or do you have a “NannyBot” that feeds you?
@Bambu Lab
Simply integrate a user group into the login process that user accounts can sign up for.
This is an extremely unhelpful message! Why innovate any features at all I mean you should just carry SD cards around? This feature absolutely must exist. I am not going to log out and log in this is insanity. And nobody else should either.
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Hello everyone.
Are there any updates on sharing a printer with multiple user accounts?
Thank you.
I wish someone would invent a way to share printers among multiple users, each with their own credentials, that would be great! If only someone would have thought about that, businesses wouldn’t need to have 1, 2, or more printers per user for documents, checks, color documents/photos, I know that this has been an issue for decades! Or wait? Has anyone ever come with a solution to that? Oh right! I remember more than 35 years ago, I was working at a company that ran Novell Netware and we shared printers over the network, using coax cable inside the building, with BNC connectors, and we all were able to share printers back then even from DOS! And then a few years later, I remember HP JetDirect, that would be connected to a printer and shared in a Windows network between any amount of users! And I was using that at least at mid 90s (Windows 95 or 98, I’m not completely sure)… How is it possible that one of the main 3D Printers brand doesn’t have an easy option to share printers without having to share accounts? When this has been solved decades ago for other businesses! How hard can it be to have a main admin/owner account for the printer, and that one be allowed to invite at least your internal family to share your own printer? Same for a small office! It is not right to have to tell people to share their user/password with everyone, when you can keep your projects, Bambu rewards, payment methods, and anyone could easily make a mistake and create a chaos in your account if it is shared between too many people (especially kids, who want to keep an eye on their printings or be able to submit something to the printer). I feel like it would be even important to allow to have at least 1 (preferably more than 1) admin, some super users who can do anything with the printer, and then a few levels down, where they could only submit prints that need to be approved before it starts printing (like kids), but can monitor their own prints once they’re printing, and others who can only print their own items, monitor their own items, but nothing about anyone else’s prints. I feel that there should be no less than 4 privilege levels here.
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That’s because you’re assuming the printer belongs to an individual account
In a healthy network model, it is its own device, accessed through (the existing) systems that permit remote control. The administrative toolchain is there, they just need to allow more than one user to access a device. The owner would support user pairing, and the device would queue prints, just like (as noted below) we’ve been doing with paper printers since the invention of computer networks.
I can take my work laptop home, and pair with any of the printers in my house to output a document, then return to the office and do the same. There’s not log in/out procedure. There’s no need to sneaker-net a memory device like it’s 1999.
There’s no reason this isn’t built into the systems controlling a cloud-controlled device in 2026 that already permits simultaneous connections from devices with various OSes.
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Just to add one more voice -
We’re running a makerspace with 400+ members and 4 Bambu printers. At least a hundred of those want to have access to the Bambu App.
Sharing the account with so many people is not only a royal PITA but also creates real issues when people leave since theoretically one would need to change the password and have everyone log in again (which obviously is not practical).
We had a Raise3D printer before. And while it was a pretty bad printer (at least for our use case) the team and sharing features were top notch.
Bambu should really take note here.
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Also backing this request. I share this printer offsite with my business partner. currently no way for us both to have access
Additional NO vote here for time-warping back 35+ years ago, using a “log out and log in” methodology, or employing a lame so-called “solution” by “sharing an account”. I don’t have to use these types of methods to print to my HP or Canon paper printers - the same should be for a 3D printer.
Something to consider at play here, and why the sharing of a Bambu 3D printer is being “blocked” from modern-day printer sharing, is the desire of some to monitor what is bring printed by the many. Several States say they want your 3D print uploaded for analysis prior to printing…
No real content to add, just another +1 to the fact that this should be a very solvable problem.
I too remain completely baffled by this whole scenario. While a shared account can work, it takes away my ability to work on something, have my history or prints available, AND monitor what the printer is doing… I mean, why would they build all the features into one application if we can’t credibly use all of them?
I thought for sure that once I got to the end of this chain that there would have been some gold at the end of the rainbow…
why am i not surprised. what a garbage company. A1 was my first printer and it will be my last bambu printer. The printer is great. works flawlessly. the software is an ight fork of orca…i hope the company fails and all their loved ones shame them
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Adding my amazement that this pretty vital feature continues to go unaddressed.
Baffling omission.
Saying share an account is 100% not a solution.
This really isn’t that hard of a problem to solve.