The 2026 print farm survey

We asked print farms what SimplyPrint actually changes

Not our marketing - their answers. We asked paying farms only, no trial accounts: each was running real production on SimplyPrint for three months or more - many for years, some since our early days - on fleets of 5 to 140 printers. Every number below is theirs, counted straight from the raw responses, and we show you the whole spread, not just the flattering end. The receipts behind the stats on our print farm page.

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What the numbers say

Four things came through in almost every response: it gives back real hours, it lifts output without more staff, farms rate it above what they pay, and the print queue is the piece they'd miss most.

3-20+
hours saved every week
~2x
printers, same staff
20-50%+
more output
5-140
printers per farm surveyed
Paying farms only, no trial accounts Three months to years as customers Real, ongoing job volume

How much time it hands back

Farms told us how many hours a week SimplyPrint saves them against their previous setup (SD cards, walking the floor, starting printers one by one). The answers clustered hard at 10 to 15 hours every week - a full working day or more, back in the business.

3-5 hrs
2
6-9 hrs
3
10-12 hrs
7
13-15 hrs
4
16-20 hrs
1
20+ hrs
2
19 farms answered this question

How much more they get done

Same team, same floor, more output. Most farms reported 15 to 50% more, several doubled, and one quadrupled. The headline metric one farm gave us: manage roughly twice the printers with the same number of staff (a 140-printer farm).

+15-40% output
6
+40-50% output
4
Doubled
3
Quadrupled
1
14 farms answered this question

What they say it's worth

We asked farms to put a price on the time and peace of mind. Of those who did, most said it's worth more than they pay - several put it at double. Farms aren't price-sensitive on the core workflow; they're sensitive to losing it.

About what I pay
7
Worth +25%
4
Worth +50%
2
Worth 2x
3
16 farms answered this question

In their words

How they'd describe SimplyPrint to another farm owner.

SimplyPrint is a game changer - it allows you to increase your work output without increasing your workload.
Farm owner · 16 printers
This makes it easier to do 80% of the work you do every day, which is sending print tasks.
Farm owner · 6 printers
It just makes the most difficult part of running the print farm an easy thing.
Farm owner · 19 printers, worth +50%
A centralized cloud hub with integrated slicing, printer control, API integration, inventory management... to control any brand and number of 3D printers.
Farm owner · 39 printers, worth +50%
It provides us a competitive edge and allows us to focus on other aspects of the business.
Farm owner · 140 printers
All-in-one business management package.
Tabletop Terrain · 100 printers Read their story

The one feature they'd miss most

Asked what would hurt most if SimplyPrint vanished tomorrow, farms named the shared print queue more than anything else: back to managing printers one by one, touching each screen, shuffling SD cards and loading files individually. It's the backbone the whole workflow hangs on. See how the print queue works.

The hidden gems they didn't come for

Over and over, farms told us the thing they now rely on wasn't why they signed up: the REST API for wiring orders straight into the queue, filament assigning and filtering, the full print-history log, and completion and runout notifications that let them run close to 24/7 without babysitting. Many farms even built their own store integrations (Shopify, Etsy, ShipStation) on top of the API.

How the survey was run

Responses came from paying print farms running 5 to 140 printers, each on SimplyPrint for three months or more with real, ongoing job volume - many have run their farm on us year after year, some since our early days. These are invested operators, not trial accounts or one-off testers. And we're not hiding behind a single flattering figure: every chart shows the full spread of answers and states how many farms answered that specific question, counted straight from the raw responses. Quotes are used with consent, and attribution is by fleet size unless the farm is already public.

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