📜 Print history
In 30 seconds
- It's the record of every job: status, duration, material consumed, errors and completion date.
- You open it from Print history in the gallery (the whole workshop) or from History on a printer's page (just that one).
- At the top, the totals of everything you have filtered, not just the page.
- Calibrations and tests are archived so they don't count; they aren't deleted.
The totals at the top
Above the list there's a row of cards with the total of everything you have filtered:
| Card | What it adds up |
|---|---|
| Prints | How many there are. |
| Time | The print hours. "N estimated" are prints that stopped reporting before the end: when they finished was inferred. |
| Filament used | The filament material, with what was lost to failures (failed or cancelled prints) on its right. |
| Resin used | The same, for resin. It only appears if there are resin prints. |
Hover to see the breakdown (by status, by hours or by material). Click filament or resin to open the full list by material (the exact material, with its colour): what was used, what was lost to failures and in how many prints. Whatever the printer didn't assign to a specific material appears at the end, as "not split" or "Others".
In the list, each job's material carries "≈" when it's an approximation.
A print's window
Click any print to see its summary. Among other things:
- The Max temperature the nozzle and the bed reached, also on printers connected through the local agent.
- The details of its errors, if it had any.
- The final photo: when each print finishes, a photo of how the part turned out is taken automatically with the camera. If the print also has a thumbnail, a toggle above the image switches between Thumbnail and Final photo; a finished print opens with the photo.
- Where the material figure comes from: measured, by layers or approximate with its % (see below).
- If the start time is estimated, it's because we didn't see the print begin, so we worked it out. In the list, its duration also shows as estimated.
How each print is labelled
| Label | What it means |
|---|---|
| Paused | The printer stopped midway and the machine itself says it's paused. |
| Cancelled | A person stopped it (from the machine's screen, its app or BolloPrint). The cancellation isn't recorded as an issue, but any it had before stay (for example, a stop because it ran out of filament). |
| Failed | The machine couldn't finish it. If it gave a reason, you'll see it in its window. |
| System print | Purple label: the machine itself started it (for example, an automatic calibration on a Bambu Lab). It isn't production, but its time and material count in the totals; if you don't want them to count, archive it (see Archiving a print, below). |
Failed and cancelled prints count towards the material "lost to failures".
Stops that need someone. If the printer stops midway and asks for someone to come (it ran out of filament, a jam…), that incident is recorded once in the print's history, even if the machine repeats it while it waits. Even if you later resume it and it finishes fine, it's still on record that it stopped and why.
The material of a failed or cancelled print
Only what was really used is recorded, not the whole part. If it's an estimate, it carries "≈".
How much resin each print used
On Elegoo resin printers and others with a ChituBox board (through the local agent), when each print finishes you'll see:
- the millilitres of resin of the printed layers;
- the grams (the ml times the resin density stated in the file);
- which resin it was, as the slicer named it.
In the history you'll see the ml of each print; in its window, the Volume field and the consumption per material (grams and ml). You need the local agent up to date; earlier prints don't have it.
Archiving a print
A calibration, a test or a duplicate job shouldn't count towards your numbers. Archive takes the print out of the list and the totals above, but doesn't delete it: you can change your mind whenever you like.
- Each row has an Archive button (the box icon, on the right). Click it and the print disappears from the list.
- To see the archived ones, click Archived in the filter bar. Each row has Restore, which returns it to the history and the totals. The same filter button becomes Back to history to go back to the normal list.
- Only a finished print can be archived (completed, failed or cancelled). With one still running you'll see "That print is still running. Wait for it to finish before archiving it."
- Archiving is a decision about your numbers, not about the machine: the printer keeps reporting and BolloPrint keeps recording what it does. Only what you see and what gets added up changes.
Archiving and restoring can be done by Owners and Admins; the other roles see the history but can't archive.