Getting started

Connect your first printers in 5 minutes

A step-by-step walkthrough for bringing your printers online with the AutoPrintFarm hub — no slicer plugins, no SD cards, no port forwarding.

The AutoPrintFarm team · · 1 min read

Getting your fleet into AutoPrintFarm takes one small Wi-Fi hub and about five minutes. There are no slicer plugins to install, no SD cards to shuffle, and no port forwarding to configure. Here’s the whole process.

What you’ll need

  • An AutoPrintFarm hub (a small Wi-Fi device that links your printers to the cloud over your own local network).
  • Your printers powered on and connected to the same network.
  • A free AutoPrintFarm account — sign up here if you haven’t yet.

Step 1 — Plug in the hub

Power the hub and connect it to your Wi-Fi. It pairs to your account with a short code from the dashboard. Once it’s online, it starts discovering printers on your local network automatically.

Step 2 — Confirm your printers

Discovered printers appear in the dashboard within a minute or two. Confirm each one and, for Bambu Lab and PrusaLink printers, enter the access code so the hub can talk to it directly. Klipper printers connect over Moonraker.

Step 3 — Watch them go live

That’s it. Each printer shows live status, temperatures, and current job. From here you can route jobs from the queue, monitor every print, and get a push alert the moment one fails.

What if my internet drops?

Any print already running keeps going — the job lives on the printer itself, so a dropped connection won’t pause or ruin it. When the hub reconnects, live status and the queue catch right back up.


Next, connect your storefront so orders flow straight into the queue — see the Etsy and Shopify integration pages, or read more about how the whole system fits together.

Ready when your farm is

Turn a busy garage into a shop that runs itself.

One place for your printers, your orders, and your team — and it keeps running long after you’ve closed the laptop.

Free for one printer · no credit card · 5-minute setup