Hello everyone,
I just have one question before I pull the trigger on getting an X1C from an old trashy printer. I am loving everything I see about this printer, but I am wondering how the wireless printing functionality is. Specifically, I will be away for much of the day and want to make sure I can do these things once I connect my new X1C to my home’s wifi, but my phone and computer will be somewhere else with internet and not on the home wifi network:
Monitor the status of current prints from the Bambu Studio desktop app
Monitor the status of current prints from the Bambu Handy phone app
Slice and send prints to the printer remotely from the Bambu Studio desktop app (there will be people home nearby for safety)
The Bambu printing ecosystem can do all of the points you have listed as long as you are okay with using the Bambu cloud service to relay prints and monitor your printer.
Not looking to pick a fight with our new moderator , and I have not personally attempted items 1 or 3, but I don’t think those two will work if you are on a different network than the printer.
You might be able to work around that by setting up a VPN so that you appear to be on the home network. This could work even in LAN-only mode.
If using the Bambu cloud is acceptable, you should also be able to upload your Studio project to MakerWorld as “private”, and then print the project remotely through the Handy app.
I can confirm this is possible as I often will log into my home printers at work or vice versa to start/monitor prints. These networks/locations are entirely separate.
I have attempted both and haven’t been able to do so without a VPN. Phone app works as you say and I do the same of uploading as private for stuff I want to be able to print but I don’t want to post publicly.
I guess its good to know it might be possible…I will have to double check there isn’t a setting on my end that is screwing it up. Probably a firewall setting I can’t change, but maybe something else I could fix.
Unless you choose to have your new printer set to LAN mode, all your sliced jobs will be sent through the Bambu Cloud.
As @JonRaymond said a couple of days ago and again yesterday, you can slice away from the printer and the printer receives the job and starts printing.
It isn’t safe without someone monitoring, but, only in the same way as running a washing machine or an oven isn’t safe without someone monitoring. It should go well, but if it goes wrong, people need to act.
, and I have not personally attempted items 1 or 3, but I don’t think those two will work if you are on a different network than the printer.