Farms win on predictable quality and honest minimums.
Volume without pricing discipline loses money. Successful farms standardize materials, document color lots, schedule maintenance, and publish rates that include labor. On networks, reputation from on-time ships and low redo rates improves routing priority. This page is for operators considering supplier mode on Printlooper.
Capacity planning
Match uploaded machine hours to real maintenance windows. Heat-soak failures spike when schedules are too aggressive.
Pricing tables
Per-gram rates are table stakes; minimum job and post-processing lines protect you on tiny parts.
Growth without chaos
Add machines only when intake QC and packing keep up. Use the print farm calculator to translate rate cards into illustrative margins.
Frequently asked questions
Should I accept every material request?
Only what you can dial in repeatably; declines beat bad reviews.
How do payouts arrive?
Stripe Connect per supplier plan; see billing tab examples.
How does routing rank my farm against others?
Material match, capacity, geographic proximity when weighted, and historical on-time and quality scores all factor into job assignment.