2.3. Printer Control Dashboard

Click the printer in printer list to enter the printer control page.

1.  Control Printer – [A]

1.1 Printer Status

This part shows the current status of the printer. Each status is described below.

Standby: Printer is free, the printer will start to print if assigned a user create a printing job.

Printing: Printer is printing.

Done: Printer has finished the last printing job. (User must press the "Done" and "Keep receiving job" button on 3D printer before starting the next job)

Busy: Printer is busy has occurred if printer is loading filament, stoping printing or something else.

Error: Printer has an error, if a printer has this status the User should check the printer.

Offline: The printer has become disconnected from the network or internet.

1.2 Popup View – [A/a]

User can watch the live progress of printing job by installing a camera in the printer and turn it on in printer settings, user can also open Popup View [A/a].

1.3  Print History[A/b]

Users can view the printing records of this machine through the printing history.

1.4   Share Printer

You can share the printers’ detail page information with others.

1. Choose the Time Limit

2. Enter the Access Password

3. Click‘Generate Sharing Link’

4. Copy the share link and share it with others

5. Others can access the shared link in the browser and enter the password to see the detail page information of the printer.

2.  Camera-[B]

The printing progress can be checked through the monitor screen. You can view the list of Time-Lapse images, monitor video streams, and save screenshots of monitoring images.

2.1 Time-Lapse List[B/a]

Click the Time-Lapse button to pop up a list of Time-Lapse List.

1.7   Monitor Video Stream [B/b]

When the printer and the computer are in the same LAN, after clicking the Video Stream button, the monitoring screen will be played in the pop-up window in the form of video stream.

2.2   Screenshot[B/c]

Click the Screenshot button, the monitoring screen will be saved in the Photo in the form of a picture.

3. Printer Description – [C]

Description allows the user to add a Description of the machine or possibly details about the machine or its location.

1. Submit description;

2. Click Add button to save it;

3. Click × to delete the description.

4.  Receive Printing Job - [D]

You can turn the “Receive Job” setting on and off when printer is standby, to allow the printer to accept/deny print jobs.

4.1 Receiving Job

If user has created a new printing job in Files or Work Order module, the job will show in the Queue list and the printer will download the file automatically.

4.2 Stop Printing Job

Printer will start to print when printer finish downloading printing file, you can click PAUSE button to Pause the job, if you click STOP button to Stop that job, the job will be Stopped and Held.

4.3 Set Notification

Click RING button , then set Notification by Percentage or Layer.

5.  Check/Edit Queue – [E]

This section shows all of the current printing tasks of the printer (only manual printing jobs). Users can also edit the print jobs here.

5.1 Current Job

This part shows information about current printing job, including job number, date of creation and creator.

5.2 Sort Queue List

Drag the printing job to change its order in queue.

5.3 Change Status of Job

You can click drop down list, then choose Ready or Hold,

Ready: Printer will print it when printer is free;

Hold: Job will be held, printer will not print it until it has returned to Ready status.

5.4 Delete Job

You can click button to Delete the Job (If job is printing, it will appear in Printing Job).

5.5 Assign Current Job to another Printer

1. Click ”Move” button;

2. Choose another printer in the team in the printer column;

3. Drag the task which you want to assign to other printer to printer column;

4. Click Confirm button.

6. Check Temperature Trend – [F]

User can check the trend of temperature changes in the last 3 minutes for L-Nozzle, R-Nozzle, and Heatbed.

7.   Generate Printing Job from USB/Local – [G]

User can use RaiseCloud to print files stored locally within the printer or on an USB drive currently attached to the machine. The job will not appear in Cloud Queue list until it is completed.

1. User should click Cloud;

2. Choose Model;

3. Click Print button next to the model file.

8.   Add/Edit Record – [H]

1. Click +New Record button;

2. Choose record type;

3. Submit some content;

4. Click confirm.

8.1 Check/Edit/Delete/Reply Record

Click the respective buttons to Edit, Delete or Reply the record.

9. Log

Users can check the operation record of the printer by viewing the log, so they can trace to the source.

10. 1.1.1.1.    Printer Information – [I]

This part will show the user information, like:

Heated Bed：The temperature of bed;

L-Nozzle: The temperature of left nozzle;

R-Nozzle: The temperature of right nozzle;

L-Nozzle (mm): The size and filament information of left nozzle;

R-Nozzle (mm): The size and filament information of right nozzle;

Storage (G): The storage of printer;

Preheat:  You can use this button to control the temperature of printer, like bed and left/right head. Note: You can only select this button when printer is Standby.

Setting: You can use this button to set the temperature of printer when printer is printing.

RaiseTouch Version: The version of RaiseTouch.