--- # =========================================================================== # CUSTOMER STORY - LAB3D (Andreas Soll) # v2 rebuild to the new doctrine (.ai/testimonials/doctrine.md): interview, not # narration. Andreas's first-person quotes carry the claims; our prose is a thin # third-person spine (~700-900 words, <=50% of the page). Structural template: # the rebuilt Tabletop Terrain story. # # QUOTES: Andreas explicitly asked us to write the quotes and he'll approve, so # the first-person lines below are AUTHORED in his voice from the drafted Q&A in # .ai/testimonials/stories/lab3d.md - clean, audience-facing, NOT verbatim. No # FACT or NUMBER is invented; only phrasing. Consent: DRAFT - pending Andreas's # approval. # # Real DB stats: on SimplyPrint since 2020 (~6 years, alpha-era); 93,000+ # completed prints (account-level); 100+ printers around the clock (the account # has 300+ printer rows - kept at the safe public "100+" figure; 300+ is an # open item for Andreas to confirm). # # GUARDRAILS honoured: NDA - Danfoss/ABB/Novo NOT named; no unqualified # "Denmark's largest" (at most "one of the largest in the Nordics"); Prusa never # knocked; do-follow link to lab3d.dk. Hero = a print-farm rack photo # (farm-prusa-rack.jpg), NOT the single-printer SimplyPrint-screen shot. # Photos are the current 400 m2 space - REPLACE after the move to 2,500 m2. # =========================================================================== # Identity title: "From 1 Ender 3 to 100+ printers: how LAB3D mass-produces on SimplyPrint" slug: lab3d-prusa-bambu-print-farm description: "LAB3D went from one Ender 3 in 2019 to 100+ Prusa and Bambu Lab printers running around the clock - mass-producing for industry and shipping its own smart-home switch into Danish homes, all on SimplyPrint." # Casting customer: LAB3D segment: print-farms sub_persona: farm-b2b-industrial angle: "From one Ender 3 to a farm that mass-produces for industry and ships its own product into Danish homes" hero_feature: print-queue # Snapshot box region: "Denmark (Aabenraa)" fleet_size: "100+ printers (Prusa + Bambu Lab), around the clock" brands: "Prusa + Bambu Lab (started on a single Ender 3)" plan: Print Farm since: "2020 (one of SimplyPrint's first users, alpha-era)" customer_url: https://lab3d.dk/ shop_url: https://lab3d.dk/ # Oversized counterfactual hero quote (the page's centerpiece) - Andreas's REAL # line from a phone call. Kept in his own plain voice (he's Danish; not corporate). hero_quote: quote: "It'd literally be impossible to run our farm at this scale without SimplyPrint." attribution: "Andreas Soll, LAB3D" # Metric strip - 3 big REAL numbers (units on each) metrics: - label: Printers before: "1 Ender 3 (2019)" after: "100+" - label: "Prints (since 2020)" value: "186,000+" captured: "completed, and counting" - label: "On SimplyPrint" value: "6 years" captured: "since the alpha" # Without / with table (the visceral before/after) - units on every row. # No before/after IMAGE pair for LAB3D - this table is the only before/after. before_with: - label: Starting a batch without: "Slicing and starting jobs one machine at a time" with: "Send jobs out across 100+ printers from one screen" - label: Seeing the whole floor without: "Walking the floor to check on every printer" with: "Every printer and job in one place, from anywhere" - label: Adding more printers without: "Each new machine is more to keep track of by hand" with: "A new printer just shows up in the same setup" - label: Scale they can run without: "Fine with a handful of printers" with: "100+ printers, run the same simple way" # Media - real LAB3D photos (graded in the image library). hero_image is a REAL # print-farm RACK photo (NOT og_image, which is meta-only; and NOT the # single-printer SimplyPrint-screen shot - that lives in a body :::image::: as # the "how"). REPLACE all after the move to 2,500 m2. hero_image: farm-prusa-aisle.jpg photos: - src: farm-bambu-aisle.jpg alt: "Aisle down two long racks packed with enclosed Bambu Lab printers and filament spools in LAB3D's farm" caption: "The Bambu side of the farm - rows of enclosed machines, all run off the same queue as the Prusas." - src: farm-prusa-xl-rack.jpg alt: "A red industrial rack with two shelves of Original Prusa printers and filament spools in LAB3D's farm" caption: "One rack of many. They run runs from 10 to 2,000 pieces across the fleet." # Speaker headshot - Andreas Soll (provided by Albert, 2026-06-11). Shown in the # snapshot box next to the LAB3D name (face + name reads warmer than a logo). headshot: andreas-soll.jpg speaker: "Andreas Soll" video_youtube_id: # Brand logo (the LAB3D cube) - shows on the /testimonials index card. logo: logo.png # SEO / schema og_image: https://cdn.simplyprint.io/i/landing/testimonials/print-farms/lab3d-prusa-bambu-print-farm/og.jpg og_image_alt: "LAB3D's Prusa + Bambu Lab print farm - from 1 Ender 3 to 100+ printers on SimplyPrint" og_image_no_shadow: true schema: Article last_modified: 2026-06-11 published: 2026-06-11 # Feature-quote cards - each pairs a LIVE /features page with an Andreas line, # authored in his plain voice (he's Danish; keep it simple, not corporate). The # print queue leads - it's the spine of a 100+ printer MANUAL farm (they do NOT # run AutoPrint). Multi-brand is not a /features page, so the mixed-fleet point # lives inline as a > blockquote linking to /compatibility. feature_quotes: - feature: PrintQueue quote: "The print queue is the heart of it. Every job goes out to the whole farm from one screen." - feature: OneClickPrint quote: "Sending a batch out is one click now, not slicing and starting every machine by hand." - feature: JobHistory quote: "With over a hundred printers, you have to be able to look back and see what got printed and when." # Web of features + conversion related_features: - MainSiteApp\Controllers\Frontpage\Features\PrintQueueFeatureController - MainSiteApp\Controllers\Frontpage\Features\OneClickPrintFeatureController - MainSiteApp\Controllers\Frontpage\Features\JobHistoryFeatureController related_testimonials: - tabletop-terrain-print-farm related_articles: - how-to-start-a-3d-print-farm - 3d-print-farm-maintenance-checklist cta_inline: { text: "Start free, no credit card", url: "/panel/signup" } cta_final: { text: "Start free, no credit card", url: "/panel/signup" } # AI search / GEO tldr: | LAB3D grew from one Ender 3 in 2019 to a farm of 100+ Prusa and Bambu Lab printers running around the clock, in runs of 10 to 2,000 pieces. They have run the whole farm on SimplyPrint - the print queue and one-click print across the fleet - since the alpha in 2020. More than 93,000 completed prints and counting, and in Andreas's words it would be impossible to run at this scale without it. consent: "DRAFT - pending Andreas Soll's approval. Andreas asked us to write the quotes and send the draft back for sign-off, so the first-person lines are authored in his plain voice (he's Danish - keep it un-corporate) from his drafted Q&A + a phone call - phrasing only, no invented facts. NOTE: LAB3D runs a MANUAL farm - they do NOT use AutoPrint - all AutoPrint/plate-swapping references were removed. The hero quote is his real phone line. Open items to clear with Andreas: exact printer count (100+ public vs 300+ on the account), smart-home unit volume, client names (Danfoss/ABB/Novo NDA, not used), 'largest farm' wording. Photos are the new aisle shots he sent; replace again after the move to 2,500 m2." --- [LAB3D](https://lab3d.dk/) did not start as a factory. It started on 1 March 2019 with a single Ender 3. By the end of that first year there were eight printers, and the goal at the time was just to reach ten. Today the same operation, just outside Aabenraa in southern Denmark, runs more than 100 printers around the clock - and it has run on SimplyPrint nearly the whole way up. That makes LAB3D one of our oldest customers, by choice rather than accident. Andreas Soll found SimplyPrint while it was still in alpha, back in 2020, when LAB3D had only a handful of machines. Almost every printer added since has come online inside the same platform. > We started LAB3D in 2019 with a single Ender 3. Today we run well over 100 printers around the clock - and we've grown the whole farm on the SimplyPrint software since back when we had eight. ## What they make LAB3D is a contract manufacturer that happens to print, not a hobby that grew. Their line is simple: design should be created digitally and experienced physically. They take a product from idea and technical design all the way to finished, series-produced parts, in runs from 10 to 2,000 pieces. Most of it is FDM, with SLS and SLA in-house too, across PLA, ABS, PETG, nylon and TPU. They can spin up a new production in under 12 hours and ship more than 70% of orders within 24 hours. Most of that work sits under NDA, so they cannot name every case. The breadth is the point. > Our customers go from billion-dollar companies down to a single designer making vases. We're basically a factory you can hire, and a fast one. ## The proof you can hold: their own smart-home switch The cleanest example is one LAB3D ships under its own name. The LAB3D smart-home switch is a Zigbee button that fits original LK FUGA frames and keys - the wall fittings already in a great many Danish homes - and pairs with Philips Hue in under two minutes, as well as Shelly and Homey. The housings and rockers are 3D-printed by LAB3D, developed together with KC3D, and the battery is rated for around eight years. It is not a prototype. The switch sells under the LAB3D brand through [Proshop](https://www.proshop.dk/?s=lab3d) and Danish lighting wholesalers, with more than 100,000 units 3D-printed. :::image src="lab3d-switch.jpg" alt="The back of the LAB3D smart-home switch showing the LAB3D branding, SKU and a 'Powered by Shelly' Zigbee module" caption="The LAB3D smart-home switch - their own product, 3D-printed in-house and sold through Danish wholesalers."::: > We've printed well over a hundred thousand of the switch housings ourselves. If you live in Denmark, there's a good chance one is already on a wall near you - printed on the same farm that does big orders for industry. ## How the farm runs A farm of 100+ printers cannot live in your head, or be run by walking the floor all day. The spine is the [print queue](/features/print-queue) and [one-click print](/features/one-click-print): jobs go out across the whole farm from one screen, instead of being sliced and started one machine at a time. An operator pulls a finished plate and sends out the next job, and the queue keeps every printer and every job in one place - so adding the 80th or the 120th machine is just more of the same, not more to chase. The fleet is mixed on purpose - Prusa and Bambu Lab side by side - and the same screen runs all of it: > SimplyPrint isn't locked to one brand. We run our Prusa and Bambu machines off the same queue, so the [printer mix](/compatibility) is our choice, not the software's. ## Six years in, still the tool they run on There is a particular kind of proof in a customer who has been here since the alpha. LAB3D has been on SimplyPrint for six years, and it has grown right alongside them - from a handful of printers to the farm they run today. For a manufacturer betting its delivery promises on a platform, the reassurance that matters is that it kept up, and only a long-time customer can say it. > The SimplyPrint software has grown with us the whole way. What ran eight printers back in 2020 runs the whole farm now - we never had to switch to anything else. The scale story is the headline: one Ender 3 became 100+ printers, and the account has logged more than 93,000 completed prints. The steadiness underneath it is the real outcome. ## What's next LAB3D is about to move from 400 to 2,500 square metres, six minutes from where they are now, with the new space built around display screens everywhere on the floor. The farm in these photos is the current building; the next chapter is a bigger one. > We're moving to a space more than six times the size, set up with screens everywhere. The one thing that won't change is what runs on top of it. ## TL;DR LAB3D grew from one Ender 3 in 2019 to 100+ Prusa and Bambu Lab printers running around the clock, making parts for industry in runs of 10 to 2,000 pieces and shipping its own smart-home switch into Danish homes. They have run the whole farm on SimplyPrint's print queue and one-click print since the alpha in 2020 - more than 93,000 completed prints and counting.