Printer Farm
From web order to despatch — one system, mostly on autopilot.

Automatic: pulling orders from your shop, matching them to parts, using stock first and working out the shortfall, dispatching queued jobs to the first free compatible printer, watching prints, banking good prints into stock and the works order, deducting spools, costing each part. You: one click to raise the works order, slicing the plate (in the browser or in ATN Slicer), confirming the bed is clear between jobs, and pressing Despatch — plus marking WooCommerce/Shopify orders sent in the shop (your own website is updated for you through the API).

Yes — the Cloud Slicer is the real OrcaSlicer engine with a browser front end, on every plan. By default the slicing runs on a computer you pair from Settings › Compute (your workshop PC, with ATN Slicer installed), so all its cores go into the job and your models stay on your network. On Workshop and Production you can also choose to slice on our servers, so a slice still runs while that PC is off. Your existing OrcaSlicer profiles import in one go.

Connect your shop once: WooCommerce with a single click (the shop hands the farm a read-only key — nothing to copy), Shopify with a token, or your own custom website through the farm's shop API — a token, no plugin. The farm checks the shop every 10 minutes and orders land on the board matched to your parts by SKU. An unmatched product still imports and simply asks which part it is, once. Re-importing is safe — the same order can never land twice.

Yes. Sign in with your Ask The Nozzle account (or create a farm with a password) and you get the full Workshop plan for 14 days — no card, nothing to cancel. When the 14 days end, the trial just ends; pick a plan if you want to carry on.

A computer that stays on — Windows or Linux — on the same network as your printers, to run the small agent that bridges them to the dashboard, does your slicing and keeps your files. A laptop that sleeps will drop out constantly; a small always-on PC in the workshop is ideal. Slicing runs through ATN Slicer (free, Windows) on that machine or any Windows PC on your network — or on our servers on Workshop and Production.

On your own computer. Parts, G-code, 3MF and CAD are stored by the agent on the machine you run it on; the cloud holds the dashboard, the queue, the orders and the records. Nothing you slice has to leave your network unless you choose to slice on our servers.

Creality K2 Plus and any Klipper / Moonraker printer; Bambu Lab X1, P1, A1 and H2D in LAN mode; FlashForge 5M, 5M Pro and AD5X; OctoPrint, PrusaLink and Duet. Mixed fleets are the normal case — that's what the dashboard is for.

Monitoring is where it starts, not where it ends. Printer Farm runs the job around the printers — orders in from your shop, stock-first works orders, slicing in the browser, dispatch across the fleet, good prints banked into stock, a true cost per part, and delivery notes out — so it runs a small shop, not just a set of cameras.

It's genuinely in use — it runs a real motorsport parts shop every day, orders and all, and the first outside farms went live in September 2026 — and it's genuinely still being shaped by the people using it. You'll find rough edges; there's a report button on every page, and what's broken or confusing gets fixed, usually the same week.