Blog
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How to price a 3D print - which margin to pick
A cost is not a price. What a print really costs once time, wear and failed prints are in, how markup and margin differ, and which margin fits printing for friends, hobby sales, custom work and marketplaces - with numbers you can check in the free calculator.
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A filament wishlist - stop forgetting which colour ran out
Black PLA runs out on a Tuesday, the next order is in a month, and by then you have forgotten. SpoolShare keeps a wishlist grouped by shop, filled from your own spools or a friend's shelf, so the restock is one list and one order.
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How much filament is left on the spool? Track it without a scale
Full, half, or low - three levels set by eye are enough to stop the last 10% of a print failing on an empty spool. How SpoolShare shows spool level, how to estimate it by weight if you want to, and where it hands over to the wishlist.
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Label your filament - print spool tags straight from the browser
A free tool that prints filament labels on a NIIMBOT printer without the vendor app, plus what to look for when buying one - printable width and resolution are the only two numbers that really matter.
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Paste a link, get the spool - how SpoolShare autofill works
SpoolShare reads brand, material and colour straight from a product URL. Which shops are supported, how colour names become swatches, and what to do when a page lists 40 variants.
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Sell 3D prints on Etsy? Give customers a live colour catalogue
Stop editing listing photos every time a filament runs out. Link a public SpoolShare page from your Etsy shop and customers always pick from the colours you actually have.
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Your crew's filament, on one shelf - why we built SpoolShare
Who has the galaxy black? Is the silk white already taken? SpoolShare puts every spool your print crew owns on one shared shelf, with live availability.