🔗 Connection types
Not every printer lets itself be read the same way. Some tell you a lot about themselves and others almost nothing; some accept commands and others ignore them; some have an accessible camera and others don't.
This page explains what you can expect from each connection type. To look up your specific model and see the summary of what we offer and what we don't, go to 🖨️ Compatible printers.
🧵 Filament printers (FDM) · 🧪 Resin printers
Summary
When you add a printer by IP, you pick the card of its brand, and that card decides the connection type. It's almost always the manufacturer's. These are the ones available today:
| Type | Which machines it covers | Does it ask for a password? | Camera | Commands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bambu cloud | Bambu Lab, through the manufacturer's cloud | Your Bambu account | ❌ | ❌ Read-only |
| Bambu Lab (local network) | Bambu Lab, over your network | Yes, the LAN access code | ✅ | ✅ with Developer Mode |
| Klipper | Everything running Klipper with Moonraker reachable: QIDI, Sovol, Voron, RatRig, Two Trees, Artillery… | Only if you set one yourself | ✅ if it has a webcam | ✅ |
| Snapmaker | Snapmaker U1 | Only if you set one yourself | ✅ | ✅ |
| PrusaLink | Prusa MK4, MK3.5, MK3.9, MINI, XL, CORE One | Yes, the one the printer displays | ⚠️ Not yet | ✅ |
| SDCP | Elegoo resin machines, Elegoo Centauri Carbon and machines with a networked ChituBox board (some Longer models) | No | ✅ on the models that have one | ✅ |
| Elegoo (local MQTT) | Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 | Only if you set a code on the machine | ✅ | ⚠️ Not yet |
| FlashForge | Adventurer 5M and 5M Pro, AD5X, Creator 5 | Yes, the code on the screen | ✅ | ⚠️ Not yet |
| Anycubic | Anycubic Kobra 3, Kobra S1, Kobra 4 and Kobra X, with LAN Mode on (in beta) | No | ⚠️ Not yet | ⚠️ Not yet |
| Creality | Creality K1, K2, Ender-3 V3 and Hi, on their factory firmware (in beta) | No | ⚠️ Not yet | ⚠️ Not yet |
If a printer's record says "Read-only", it means that over that route and with that firmware we can't send it commands. We can read it perfectly well; the Pause, Resume and Cancel buttons are greyed out, with a padlock and the reason.
Limits that apply to all of them
We don't send jobs to print. The file is sent from your slicer, as always. BolloPrint reads what's happening and records it.
The camera, live when you're looking at it. From the printer's page, Watch live opens the camera while you have the page in front of you: as video where the camera provides it, and otherwise up to one image per second. It cuts off by itself when you leave the page or after 15 minutes. You can also take a photo right away, and when each print finishes a final photo is saved automatically in its history. If the job doesn't come with a thumbnail, a photo of the inside is also taken roughly every 3 minutes while it prints, so the card isn't left empty. It isn't video surveillance: nothing from the live view is recorded.
Weight and material length are estimates. They come from the slicer's calculation, not from a scale. No home printer weighs what it uses.
Every active printer takes up a slot in your plan, whichever route it comes in by.
If a printer stops being reachable, nothing is deleted. It stays in the list with its number, its name and its full history, and it comes back as soon as you reconnect it.
What about mine?
Look it up in Compatible printers: every manufacturer and model is there, with whether it can be connected today and how.