# Taz 6 "Farm"

**URL:** <https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/taz-6-farm/6860>\
**Category:** Software\
**Created:** [August 19, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/taz-6-farm/6860 "2019-08-19T12:16:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![underdog1924](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e56c9b/32.png) [@underdog1924](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/underdog1924)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/taz-6-farm/6860/1 "2019-08-19T12:16:19Z")

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My school just installed 6 Taz 6s and I’m looking for a way to control them over network essentially like a farm. That would make it easier than running around with SD cards. I use Octoprint but am curious if anyone has any other ideas for controlling multiple printers over a network. Each printer has its own network drop, so that’s not an issue.

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**Author:** ![nopick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7bcc69/32.png) [@nopick](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/nopick)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/taz-6-farm/6860/2 "2019-08-19T13:50:56Z")

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For six printers, Octoprint is probably your best option. You would not need to carry around SD cards if you are using Octoprint.

I asked a similar question to Lulzbot support a while back and received this answer.

_Our 3D printing cluster runs 155 LulzBot 3D Printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We use BotQueue to manage print jobs across all the 3D printers. Each LulzBot 3D printer is connected to a BeagleBone Black which is connected to the network through an Ethernet cable. Each BeagleBone Black runs a program called Bumblebee to communicate with our BotQueue server to fetch new 3D printing jobs and report the status of the 3D printer. You can also configure BotQueue to show a webcam that is attached to the BeagleBone for each printer. If you wish to connect the BeagleBone to your network via Wi-Fi, you may be able to use a USB Wi-Fi adapter and a USB Hub connected to the BeagleBone._  
   
_You can learn more about BotQueue at [https://www.botqueue.com/](https://www.botqueue.com/), and you can find the BeagleBone Black at [https://beagleboard.org/black/](https://beagleboard.org/black/). Our fork of BotQueue is available at [https://code.alephobjects.com/source/botqueue/](https://code.alephobjects.com/source/botqueue/)._