☁️ Cloud printers
In 30 seconds
- The cloud route connects your Bambu Lab printers through your Bambu account, without installing anything. Today it's the only brand that supports it.
- All you need is that account's email and the code Bambu sends to that email. We don't ask for your password, and the connection renews itself.
- It's read-only and has no camera. For the camera, connect them over the local network as well; to pause, resume and cancel, over the local network with Developer Mode.
- It's done in Settings → Printers, Bambu Cloud tab.
The cloud route connects BolloPrint with the manufacturer's cloud, not with the printer directly. Today only Bambu Lab has a cloud we can use this way.
It's in Settings → Printers, Bambu Cloud tab, and it's the quickest way to get started: there's nothing to install.
What you need
- A Bambu Lab account (the same one you use in the app or the slicer). Its email is enough: the password isn't needed.
- Your printers linked to that account and online.
- Access to that email: Bambu sends the sign-in code there.
Connecting the account
- Go to Settings → Printers and open the Bambu Cloud tab.
- Type the email of your Bambu Lab account and click Send code.
- Bambu sends you a 6-digit code to that email (sender
noreply@bambulab.com, in English; check your spam too). - Type the code on that same screen and click Verify and connect.
💡 The code lasts 10 minutes
If it expires, or doesn't arrive, click Resend code: only the latest one works. If you got the email wrong, Change email. Meanwhile you can move around BolloPrint and come back to this screen; if 15 minutes go by, you'll have to start again.
Once connected, the printers on that account appear on their own in the Printers tab. There's no need to register them one by one.
What you'll see
- Whether the printer is switched on and connected.
- What it's printing, the percentage, the time it has been printing and the time it has left.
- Nozzle, bed and chamber temperatures (depending on the model).
- The materials loaded, tray by tray, if you have an AMS.
- The machine's issues, with their severity and their link to the Bambu wiki.
- The sliced-file image of the job in progress.
- The full history: every print, with its duration and its outcome.
And what you won't see or be able to do
This is the important part of this route, and it's worth being clear about before you pick it:
| Read-only | You can't pause, resume or cancel from BolloPrint. It's a limitation of Bambu's own firmware, which through the cloud ignores commands that don't come from its own programs. |
| No camera | The camera image doesn't come through the cloud. The job's sliced-file image does, which isn't the same thing. |
| It depends on the internet twice over | It needs internet in your workshop and the Bambu cloud to be up. If either fails, the printer shows as disconnected even though it's printing perfectly. |
💡 If you want a camera, or to pause and cancel
Connect those machines through the local agent as well: they gain the camera. The printer is still just one, with its history, and takes up a single slot in your plan. It's covered in Local network printers.
Commands (pause, resume, cancel) only get through the agent if you turn on Developer Mode on the printer. That needs LAN Only Mode, which disconnects it from Bambu Cloud: from then on you'll only see it through the agent. More in Connection types.
The connection renews itself
A Bambu session lasts 90 days and BolloPrint renews it on its own a month before it expires: you don't have to sign in again.
Only if Bambu closes the session on its own, or it couldn't be renewed in time, will you see the "Session expired" notice on this screen and in Settings → Printers. Click Sign in again, ask for a new code and that's it: there's no need to unlink, and the printers keep their whole history.
If you can't get connected
| What you see | What it usually is |
|---|---|
| "There's no Bambu Lab account with that email" | The email isn't the one on your Bambu account. Bambu sends the code anyway, but rejects it when you type it in. Check which email you use to sign in to its app and use Change email. |
| You sign in to Bambu with Google or Apple | Type the email of that Google or Apple account: the code arrives there just the same. |
| "Bambu Lab wants to check you’re not a robot" | Bambu asks for it after several attempts in a row. The app locks Send code for a few minutes with a countdown: wait without retrying. If it happens again, sign in once on the Bambu Lab website (the link is in the message itself) and come back. |
| The code doesn't arrive | Check your spam. Make sure the email is the one on the Bambu account, not another of yours. Use Resend code. |
| It won't accept the code | It will have expired (it lasts 10 minutes) or it isn't the latest one you asked for. Ask for another. Paste it whole: if you copy it from the email with spaces or dashes, they're cleaned up automatically. |
| Two-step verification | If your Bambu account has it turned on, turn it off so you can connect it. |
Unlinking the account
On the same screen, Unlink. The printers that arrived only through that account leave the list and stop counting towards your plan; the ones that also arrive through the local agent stay, by that route. Nothing is lost: as soon as you connect them again, by whichever route, they come back with their number, their name and their whole history.