Print-farm software runs your printers. Works runs the business.
Printer-control tools such as SimplyPrint, Printago, AutoFarm3D, OctoPrint and Bambu Lab's farm manager send prints to your printers and let you watch them run. Nozzlet Works doesn't connect to printers. It handles everything around the print: what it costs, what to charge, the order, the filament, the schedule and the upkeep.
What printer-control software is for
- Sending print files to your printers
- Queueing jobs across several printers
- Watching prints as they run
What Nozzlet Works is for
- The true cost of every plate: filament, electricity, printer wear, maintenance, labour and a failed-print reserve
- Suggested prices from your margin, and profit per print hour, so you know what's worth printing
- Quotes, orders, invoices and receipts, with your customers' history
- Filament spools, supplies and purchase orders, with labels and barcode scanning
- A schedule around your waking hours, so changeovers happen while you're up
- Maintenance reminders by print hours
Using both
Price and quote the job in Works, and add it to the schedule. Send the file to your printers with your printer software, as you do now. When the print is done, finish the job in Works, so your filament, costs and schedule stay right.
When one is enough
- Printing for yourself, or not selling yet? Your printer's own app, or printer-control software, is all you need.
- Selling prints from a few printers? Works on its own, with your printer's app to send the files, covers the business side.
Questions
Does Nozzlet Works control my printers?
No. Works doesn't send files to printers or watch them print. Keep using your printer's app or your farm software for that.
Will Works replace my print-farm software?
No, it sits beside it. Farm software keeps the printers busy; Works tells you what each job costs, what to charge, and what's coming up.
Does it work with my printers?
Yes: Works doesn't need to connect to them. Add each printer with what it cost, its power use and its filament slots (for example a Bambu Lab AMS), and Works costs and schedules its jobs.
Is there a free plan?
Yes, free forever with no card needed. See Pricing.
Run the business side of your print farm.
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