Printer Farm · for FlashForge owners · open beta · free 14-day trial · no card

Your FlashForge printers, run as a farm

Adventurer 5M, 5M Pro and AD5X on one dashboard — live status, cameras, a queue that sends each job to the first free printer and waits for you to clear the bed — with orders coming in from your shop and delivery notes going out. Add one printer or twenty; mixed fleets are the point.

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The demo is a real farm — eight printers printing day and night, every page open, read-only. Your own farm is live in about a minute with an Ask The Nozzle account.

What you get

Printer Farm with Adventurer 5M, 5M Pro and AD5X

Every 5M on one page

Status, temperatures, progress and time left for each printer, side by side. The 5M Pro and AD5X show their camera; the 5M shows the slicer's picture of what it is printing.

A queue that respects the finished-print screen

FlashForge holds its finished-print screen until Done is pressed. The farm knows, says so on the card, and the queue only sends the next job once the bed is confirmed clear — no print landing on a part.

Any G-code printer takes the job

A part sliced once can be queued to the pool: the first free compatible printer takes it, FlashForge or otherwise. Every good print banks itself against the part.

Orders in, delivery notes out

WooCommerce, Shopify, your own site or an Etsy CSV. Stock is used first, what's short becomes a works order, and the ready lines go out with courier and tracking.

How it connects

Three steps, and your FlashForge printers are on the dashboard

One small agent bridges your workshop to the cloud. Your files stay with you; the cloud is the dashboard.

Install the farm agent

A small program on a Windows or Linux computer that stays on, on the same network as the printers. It makes one outbound connection; nothing to open on your router.

Turn on LAN Mode on the printer

Settings → Network → LAN Mode on the printer's screen shows its serial number and check code. The farm talks to the printer's local API on port 8898.

Add it by address

Printer type FlashForge, the printer's IP, the serial and check code — Test connection says what answered before you save. Cameras on the 5M Pro and AD5X are picked up from the URL the printer reports.

Good to know

Honest notes for FlashForge owners

A FlashForge firmware update switches LAN Mode off and issues a new check code. If a printer goes offline after an update, turn LAN Mode back on and enter the new code on its Setup tab.
The light switch, finish alerts, bed-clear gating and auto-dispatch all work on the 5M family; the AD5X's multi-colour unit is driven from the slicer, as on the printer itself.

Mixed fleets are the point

Runs alongside

Creality K2 Plus & any KlipperBambu Lab X1 · P1 · A1 · H2DOctoPrintPrusaLinkDuet

Common questions

Does it work with the Adventurer 5M without a camera?

Yes. The 5M shows the slicer's print image on its card instead of a camera; status, queueing and alerts are the same as on the 5M Pro and AD5X.

Do I need to leave FlashForge's own app?

No. The farm uses the printer's local LAN API alongside whatever else you use. It needs LAN Mode on and the serial number and check code from that screen.

Why does a finished print stop the next one starting?

Because the printer is still showing its finished-print screen and the bed may not be empty. Press Done on the printer, confirm the bed is clear on the farm, and the queue sends the next job.

Run the whole job from one system

Free 14-day Workshop trial, no card. From £8 a month after, by fleet size.

Start your free trial → Look round the demo farm →

Everything Printer Farm does, end to end →