Printer maintenance, not a glorified spreadsheet

Every print job that runs through SimplyPrint contributes the data the maintenance system needs: print hours, filament grams used and print count since the last service, tracked per printer per schedule. A background evaluator reads those counters once an hour and creates work orders the moment a printer crosses your threshold ("every 200 print hours", "every 5 kg of filament", "every 100 prints", "every 30 days").

A moving-average predictor uses each printer's recent daily usage to create jobs ahead of when they'd be due, so your team can plan instead of react. On Bambu Lab printers, incoming HMS notifications (the codes the printer raises for clogged nozzles, loose belts, dirty Lidar, lubrication intervals etc.) can also auto-create the matching maintenance task. No spreadsheets, no calendar reminders, no "who was meant to do that?".

Open the maintenance page and see at a glance: how many printers are in maintenance, which are overdue, what jobs are running today, and which spare parts are running low. The printer status table groups every machine in your fleet by its current state - operational, scheduled, overdue, in maintenance, or out of order - so you always know where to focus first.

If you're new to the feature, a guided getting-started walkthrough takes you through the first setup steps - so even someone who's never managed a maintenance program can have one up and running in minutes.

Schedules are the automation engine. They watch your printers and create jobs the moment maintenance is due - no spreadsheets, no calendar reminders, no "who was meant to do that?" conversations. The system evaluates every active schedule once an hour and acts on the printers that need it.

Use any trigger that matches how your fleet actually works:

• Time-based - every 7 / 30 / 90 / 365 days with optional minimum-usage threshold
• Print hours - the smart one, with a prediction engine that learns each printer's average daily usage and creates jobs ahead of when they'll be due
• Filament consumption - track extruder wear by grams pushed through
• Print count - one for every N completed prints
• Task threshold - bundle multiple due tasks into one efficient job
• Failure count - catch struggling printers before they waste more filament

Flip the "puts printer in maintenance" toggle on a job and as soon as it starts, the printer is automatically removed from rotation. AutoPrint skips it, 1-Click Print skips it, and the print queue won't match items to it. No more accidentally sending a job to a printer that's mid-nozzle-swap. When the job is completed or cancelled, the printer rejoins the rotation automatically - unless another active maintenance job is keeping it in maintenance.

Maintenance is rarely a one-person job. Assign jobs to specific team members, assign individual tasks to different people within the same job, set a default responsible user on each task template, and route notifications to the right people automatically.

Five permission levels keep things tidy:

• View maintenance - see jobs, schedules, templates, inventory, problems
• Manage maintenance - create / edit / start / complete jobs and schedules
• Complete tasks - check off tasks in the checklist
• Manage inventory - add / edit / adjust spare parts stock
• Report problems - flag printer issues

The schedules don't run on a separate ledger. Every minute SimplyPrint spends watching a printer print is also a minute it spends incrementing the maintenance counters: print hours, filament grams, completed prints, failures, cancel reasons. The statistics page is the at-a-glance view; the maintenance schedules are the act-on-it view. Both read the same source of truth, so the moment a metric changes, both pages reflect it.

That's also why turning on AI failure detection, the filament manager, or per-print cost calculation makes maintenance richer too: more signal in, smarter scheduling out.

Not sure what maintenance you should be doing? SimplyPrint ships with a library of default task templates, schedules and spare parts you can import in one click. They cover the patterns most farms need:

• Weekly quick check (bed clean, nozzle inspection, belt check)
• Monthly maintenance (lubrication, fan cleaning, calibration)
• Quarterly deep service (full calibration, hardware inspection)
• Annual overhaul (full teardown-level inspection)
• Every 200 / 500 print hours - usage-based
• Every 5 kg of filament, every 100 prints - throughput-based