# The 3D printer Hub for schools and print farms **Minimum Plan:** Print Farm The SimplyPrint 3D printer Hub is a shared screen for your printer room, where members start prints under their own login. Print Farm, School & Enterprise. **Categories:** organization *One simple screen for a room full of shared printers* ## The SimplyPrint Hub **Before:** one shared login on the printer-room computer, and no idea who started the failed print. **After:** a clean screen with just your printers, where everyone signs in as themselves. The Hub is a simpler, stripped-down version of SimplyPrint built for shared spaces. It lives at its own web address, shows only your printers - no sidebar, no settings, none of the panel's management clutter - and lets the people around them start prints under their own login. Same printers, same queue, same slicer, same permissions; just far less to click through. ## Made for the computer next to your printers Makerspaces, school labs and print farms all run on shared printers. The Hub is the screen you put on the shared computer so anyone can walk up, find a printer and get a print going in seconds - while every action stays tied to a real person. ## Lock the Hub to your room Keep the printer room as open or as private as you like. Restrict the Hub to **approved computers** - click a button on each computer you trust and only those devices get in. Limit access to your building's network with **IP restrictions**. Or keep printers fully private with permanent login, where people must sign in before they can see anything at all. ## Your printers, your rules You decide which printers show up with a per-printer **Show on Hub** toggle, run the screen in dark mode for a wall display, and send brand-new members straight to the Hub after they sign up. And because it's the same SimplyPrint underneath, the Hub respects the exact same permissions as the panel - if a user can't start prints in your organization, they can't start them on the Hub either. ## Built for shared 3D printing accounts The Hub is one piece of how SimplyPrint runs a shared account. Explore the rest: ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the SimplyPrint Hub? It's a simpler, stripped-down view of SimplyPrint that lives at its own web address and shows only your printers - no sidebar, no settings, none of the panel's management clutter. It's designed to live on the shared computer in a printer room, makerspace or classroom, so people can start prints under their own login without poking around in your account. ### What's my Hub URL? It's **simplyprint.io/hub/{your-organization-id}**. You set the organization ID under General settings, so you can make it something memorable like simplyprint.io/hub/your-school-name. The same ID also powers sign-up and login links you can hand out: simplyprint.io/register/{your-id} and simplyprint.io/login/{your-id}. ### What's the difference between permanent and temporary login? **Permanent login** keeps a person signed in (it shares the same login as the rest of SimplyPrint) and keeps the Hub private until they log in - best for a trusted screen. **Temporary login** lets anyone with the link watch the printers, but asks for a sign-in before any action and signs the person back out after a couple of minutes of inactivity - perfect for a screen lots of different people share. ### Can I keep my printers private? Yes. Use permanent login so people have to sign in before they can see anything, and/or restrict the Hub to approved computers or specific IP addresses. Temporary login makes the printer room visible to anyone with the link, so reach for these controls if you'd rather keep it private. ### Do people need their own SimplyPrint account to use the Hub? Yes - they sign in with their own account (or register through your organization's sign-up link, or use single sign-on if you have it). The Hub then applies the exact same permissions they have everywhere else, so signing in never grants any extra access. ### Which plans include the Hub? The Hub is available on the Print Farm, School and Enterprise plans. See the [pricing page](/pricing) for the full comparison. --- **Learn more:** [Feature Page](https://simplyprint.io/features/hub)