Bambu Farm Manager is Bambu Lab's own free tool for managing a fleet of Bambu printers. It's a pair of Windows programs (a Server and a Client) that run on your local network, and it's a genuinely useful, free way to watch your Bambu printers and batch-control them, especially if everything lives on one site and you never need to reach it from outside.
But "manage your printers on the LAN" and "run a print farm" aren't the same job. A farm has to keep printing when you're not standing next to it, catch failures, route work automatically, and grow. That's where a free, local, single-brand tool runs into a ceiling, and it's why plenty of all-Bambu farms still pay for SimplyPrint. Here's a fair, side-by-side look.
Bambu Farm Manager is free, runs entirely on your local network, and is made by Bambu for Bambu printers. If your farm is all-Bambu, everything sits on one LAN, you never need to manage it remotely, and free is the priority, it's a solid choice, and a particularly good one for schools or businesses whose IT policy forbids the cloud.
SimplyPrint is a paid cloud platform that runs your Bambu farm from any device, anywhere, with the parts a farm actually leans on: automated job dispatch, AI failure detection and bed-check, continuous (lights-out) printing, filament inventory, a maintenance system, multi-user roles and SSO, native iOS/Android apps, and nothing to host on-prem. It also runs every other printer brand, the day you add one. "Free" isn't the same as "runs your farm", which is why many all-Bambu operators choose SimplyPrint even though Bambu's tool costs nothing.
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The first thing a growing farm hits with Bambu Farm Manager is the leash: it lives on one Windows PC, on one local network. SimplyPrint is a cloud platform, so the farm is wherever you are.
Both tools monitor a fleet and batch-control it. The difference is everything that happens when no one is clicking: dispatching jobs, catching failures, and tracking filament and upkeep.
Credit where it's due. For the right setup, Bambu's own free tool is genuinely the right answer, and SimplyPrint can't match it on these:
Nothing is black-and-white, and there are always pros and cons to consider when choosing a 3D printing cloud solution!
And we're not here to simply tell you, that SimplyPrint is the best - we want you to make an informed decision, and of course there are pros of using Bambu Farm Manager as well!
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| Allmänt | ||
| Har gratisplan | ||
| Free printers | Unlimited | 2 |
| Max pris | Free | Free, or from $4/printer/mo |
| Gratis molnlagring | 1GB | |
| Användningsbaserad kostnad | ||
| Obegränsad utskrift | ||
| Stöder alla skrivare | Bambu Lab only | |
| Funktioner | ||
| Fjärråtkomst | LAN only (no native remote) | |
| Filamenthantering | ||
| Filament NFC tags (read & write) | ||
| Filament label printing (Dymo / Zebra) | ||
| Känner din skrivare | ||
| Cloud-filer | ||
| Skrivarkö | ||
| Livestream | LAN only | |
| Gcode-analys | ||
| A.I-feldetektering | ||
| AI Bed Check (is the bed clear?) | ||
| AutoPrint / kontinuerlig utskrift | ||
| Maintenance & servicing system | ||
| Custom fields | ||
| Staggered Start (for power draw) | ||
| Utskriftsjobbshistorik | Live status only | |
| Skriv ut på distans | ||
| Inbyggd slicer | ||
| Multiskrivarvänlig | ||
| Multiutskrift | ||
| Multistream | LAN only | |
| Statistik | ||
| API | ||
| Slicer smart-rotation | ||
| Smart filamentbyte | ||
| Bäddnivelleringshjälp | ||
| Organisation | ||
| Flera användare | ||
| Användargrupper / roller | Admin / common users | |
| Användarbehörigheter | ||
| Skolplan | ||
| Delade filer & mappar | ||
| Delade slicerprofiler | ||
| Hub | ||
| Anpassade domäner | ||
| SSO (single sign-on) | ||
| Aviseringar | ||
| E-postaviseringar | ||
| Push (mobil/app)-notiser | ||
| SMS-/textmeddelandeaviseringar | ||
| Appar | ||
| Android-app | ||
| iOS-app | ||
| "PWA" (installerbar webbapplikation) | ||
| Security & privacy | ||
| Tvåfaktorsautentisering för konto | ||
| Integritetsmedveten analys & datainsamling ? | ||
| Support | ||
| Livechattsupport | ||
| Telefonsupport | ||
| E-postsupport | ||
| Firmware- & gatewaystöd | ||
| OctoPrint-installation | ||
| Inbyggt Moonraker-stöd | ||
| Mainsail-installation | ||
| Fluidd-installation | ||
| Klipper-stöd | ||
| Duet3D-integration | ||
| Direkt Prusa-stöd (MK4, XL och uppåt / nya moderkort) | ||
| Direkt Bambu Lab-skrivarintegration | ||
| Stöd för anpassade integrationer | ||
| Enterprise & partner | ||
| OEM | ||
| Partnerprogram (återförsäljare/distributör) | ||
| Affiliate-program | ||
| On-prem / self-hosting ? | Yes, local Windows server | Contact us |
| Jämför | Se priser | Se priser |
Kontakta oss om du tycker att vi har gjort ett misstag i vår jämförelse!
Vi gjorde SimplyPrint eftersom inget annat på marknaden riktigt passade våra behov. Vi ville ha en plattform som var enkel att använda, men som ändå hade alla funktioner vi behövde. Vi ville ha en funktionsrik plattform, intuitiv och enkel att använda, med en fantastisk användarupplevelse och verklig innovation inom programvara för 3D-utskriftshantering.
Sammanfattningsvis tycker vi, ödmjuka och opartiska som vi är 😉, att SimplyPrint-plattformen är ett utmärkt alternativ till Bambu Farm Manager!
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