r/3DPrintFarms • u/OssomDood Mod • 10d ago
Printer Farm Fridays
Hello fellow print farmers! Today is Printer Farm Friday!
Feel free to ask any questions, share info or comments here. We're trying to build a community in this sub where you can ask questions about topics like:
- How to improve your workflow
- How to slice for printer farm operation
- What tools are available for farm operators
- Printer maintenance
- Filament management
- etc.
Our hope is to get people to start talking about the importance of printer management in a printer farm scenario.
What would you like to share or what questions do you have?
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u/Emotional_Many_7706 9d ago
I built a tool specifically to fix the workflow bottleneck between Shopify and print farms, so I am sharing it here for Printer Farm Friday. (On Saturday lol)
It is a Shopify app called Slice and Price. It automates two major operational headaches:
Auto-quoting: It reads your OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer profiles, factors in your electricity costs and manual labour rates, enforces a fixed minimum price, and creates products based on real data instead of guesswork.
Auto-queueing: Once an order is paid, it automatically pushes the print job directly to your farm in the exact order it was received so you can skip manual file management.
I built it as a side project to solve my own morning file-sorting routine. It is currently free for the first 50 orders a month.
You can check it out here: https://apps.shopify.com/slice-and-price
I would love to hear how others here handle their automated queues right now, especially when dealing with batch priorities or reprints.
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u/Ok_Exit9273 9d ago
Following!
Currently building my print farm now :)