Running a 3D Printing Business
The order desk, the costing, the filament and the money, in one place.
For a shop selling prints: one printer on a desk, a garage full of them, or a farm. The reading below is what shops asked us before they asked for the software.
Already running Printago or SimplyPrint? Those drive your machines. LayerFlow3D runs the order around them - what it cost you, what to charge, what is left on the shelf, and the page a buyer orders from. Plenty of shops run both.
See it side by side →Where to start
Which software a 3D print shop needs, and in what order
A plain map of the tools a 3D printing business is told to buy, what each kind is actually for, and the ones most shops can skip for a year.
Read it →Setting up a Bambu print farm, Developer Mode included
How to run several Bambu Lab printers as a farm: network mode, what Developer Mode is for, and what you give up either way.
Read it →Filament inventory that does not drift
Why spool counts stop matching reality, and the small number of habits that keep filament stock honest without anybody weighing everything on a Sunday.
Read it →Selling prints through an Instagram bio link
How to turn a printing account into a shop that takes orders without you, and stop losing half of them in the DMs.
Read it →Starting a 3D print farm: the first ten decisions
The ten choices that are expensive to reverse later, from what you print to how you know whether the month made money.
Read it →What to charge for a 3D print
A practical method for pricing a print that covers your filament, your machine and your own time, and still leaves something over.
Read it →Work out the numbers first
What a print costs you, what an hour on a machine costs, and what a spool is worth. Free, no sign-up.
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