Connected printer network
Independent Printers. One Connected Network.
Instead of requiring all manufacturing equipment to be located inside one central factory, connected manufacturing allows independently owned 3D printers to participate in a coordinated production ecosystem.
HOLK TECH is developing the infrastructure that connects printers, owners, software and production workflows.
The tested network is a laboratory path with one Bambu Lab X1 Carbon. International expansion is the future the architecture is built to support. It is not a claim that a worldwide production network is already operating.
In development
A production request starts as a digital description of an object. In the laboratory, the software has accepted a test request and kept it as one job. That is an engineering test, not a published count of customers or commercial orders.
Partly tested
The platform holds the job, reads the model and prepares production data. Laboratory preparation uses OrcaSlicer for the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon profile under test. The platform is still being built. It is not a finished public production service.
Partly tested
A job moves through explicit states, including created, preparing, ready to start and transferred. Repeating the same request returns the same job. A person still authorizes sensitive steps. Automatic assignment across many printers is planned, not operational.
In development
HOLK Connect is the device that is meant to sit with the printer. It authenticates to the software and reaches the machine on the local network. The service does not open a route into the owner's network. The development board is a LILYGO T-Display-S3. It is not a finished retail product.
Partly tested
The tested machine is one Bambu Lab X1 Carbon in the laboratory. A prepared file has been transferred to it and checked by checksum. The print was not started. Further printers in this diagram are illustrative. They are not enrolled, and they do not represent an operating international network.
Same software, more than one machine
Tested in the laboratory
The only machine in the tested path. It is a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon used for engineering tests. This marker is not a public address, a customer site or a count of printers.
Illustrative
A simulated location. It shows how an independently owned printer could join the same software infrastructure from somewhere else. No printer is enrolled here.
Illustrative
A simulated location. The architecture is being designed so distance is a property of the network, not a requirement that every machine share one factory building.
Illustrative
A simulated location. International participation is the direction of the work. It is not a claim that HOLK TECH operates in a particular country.
Illustrative geography
Tested in the laboratory
The only machine in the tested path. It is a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon used for engineering tests. This marker is not a public address, a customer site or a count of printers.
Illustrative
A simulated location. It shows how an independently owned printer could join the same software infrastructure from somewhere else. No printer is enrolled here.
Illustrative
A simulated location. The architecture is being designed so distance is a property of the network, not a requirement that every machine share one factory building.
Illustrative
A simulated location. International participation is the direction of the work. It is not a claim that HOLK TECH operates in a particular country.
Illustrative
A simulated location. Nothing on this map is a live production node, a customer or an active territory.
Schematic geography, not an operational map. Every marker except Laboratory is simulated.
Simulated locations are labeled illustrative. They are not HOLK TECH sites, customers or active countries.
What has been exercised
The laboratory software has taken a test request, prepared a file with OrcaSlicer and transferred that file to the X1 Carbon. The checksum matched. The print was not started from the platform.
What is still ahead
Enrollment of independently owned printers, live monitoring of a running print, completion confirmation and coordination of more than one machine are later stages. The map on this page uses simulated locations so the idea can be seen without inventing sites.