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What running a print farm actually costs.

Working notes on costing, scheduling and printer plumbing — written from a farm that sells on three channels, not from a marketing department.

Costing · 18 September 2026 · 7 minFilament cost is less than half of what a print costs youThe standard calculation — grams times price per kilo — gets you to about 45% of the real number. Here is the other 55%, line by line, on a real product.Aron de Haas
Scheduling · 6 minHow to promise a ship date you can actually keepMost farms quote lead times from gut feel and then find out they are late when the customer emails. A queue simulation across the real fleet gives you two days of warning.29 September 2026Printers · 5 minBambu LAN mode and Developer Mode: what you actually loseThird-party tools often ask you to put your Bambu printers in LAN Only with Developer Mode. That is a real trade, and for most of what a farm needs, it is not required.6 October 2026

Find out which of your products is losing money.

Connect one shop and one printer. The first finished job tells you its real cost.

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