Spools should really be standardized across 3D printing, but that’s never going to happen. After writing yesterday’s story about digital spool scales, I thought about the problem of using them: you ...

Most 3D printers come with a pretty basic filament holder — often little more than a bar to hang the spool on. [Ivan Miranda]’s 3D printers run bigger spools than most, though, so he had to craft an ...

Most 3D printer filament soaks up water from the air, and when it does, the water passing through the extruder nozzle can expand, bubble, and pop, causing all kinds of mayhem and unwanted effects in ...

I keep having this problem in one office where a user's job gets stuck in the print spool and it becomes undeletable (even by the administrator). The only way to get rid of it that I can tell is to ...

Your computer processes data, stores it, and sends it to different peripherals and output devices. Computer science uses a few terms specific to this type of process: spooling, buffering and caching.

Spoolman has become a popular way to manage a large collection of print spools. It is a database that you host somewhere (commonly on same rpi as your printer) that can be accessed through a web UI ...

Virtually all desktop FFF 3D printers are accompanied by a spool or coil of filament. Inevitably it will be PLA because it’s a material that’s relatively easy to 3D print, and is not too expensive. In ...

I save the last meter of filament with simple routines, scrap-friendly prints, and smart storage that keeps waste and ...