Bengaluru

Local 3D printing, priced in seconds.

Upload an STL. A slicer runs it against every machine in Bengaluru and returns a real number — grams of filament, hours on the bed, nothing negotiated over chat. Collect it this week from a printer near you.

Join waitlist How it works

One order, end to end.

Six stages. Nothing left to WhatsApp guesswork.

  1. 1.0

    Upload and validate

    The model is checked before anyone sees a price — manifold geometry, wall thickness, and bounding box against each machine’s build volume. Unprintable files are rejected in the first minute, not after a failed print.

    STL · OBJ · 3MF · STEP · IGES

  2. 2.0

    Automatic quote

    A headless slicer runs your file against real printer profiles and returns filament grams and machine hours. No bidding, no waiting on replies.

    grams × material rate  +  hours × machine rate  +  setup

  3. 3.0

    Match on hand-off, not distance

    Bengaluru is a traffic problem, not a distance problem. Matching starts from how you want the part — pickup or delivery — then filters by material, colour, build volume, free capacity and quality score.

    pickup · rider

  4. 4.0

    Pay once, held until delivery

    You pay PrintMesh over UPI or card. The money sits against your order in a double-entry ledger and reaches the printer owner only after you approve the part — or automatically after 72 hours of silence.

    UPI · card · auto-approve at 72h

  5. 5.0

    Print with proof at every stage

    Owners photograph the part before packing. Every verified owner ships in the same kit — bubble wrap, box, desiccant — so a damage claim is a photo, not an argument.

    photo at pack · OTP at hand-off · photo at receipt

  6. 6.0

    Collect in a window

    Prints finish at 3 a.m.; nobody wants a rider then. Owners mark the part ready and it enters the next slot — two per day.

    slots at 13:00 and 19:00

You always know where it is.

Every order walks one track. Two of those states move money, and both are visible to you.

  1. 01draft
  2. 02analyzing
  3. 03quoted
  4. 04accepted
  5. 05paid
  6. 06printing
  7. 07ready
  8. 08in transit
  9. 09delivered
  10. 10approved
  11. 11released
money moves here scroll the track →
Exits
  • disputedheld, reviewed by a person
  • refundedback through the gateway
  • cancelledbefore printing starts

Two ways it reaches you.

Cheapest first. Whatever the hand-off costs is added to your order and shown before you pay — never folded into the print price.

Added to your order low → high
  1. Option 1

    Pickup

    Collect from the owner. Their area shows to roughly a kilometre until the order is accepted, exact address after. Opt-in per printer, never forced.

    No charge you go to the part
  2. Option 2

    Hyperlocal rider

    Two-wheeler, same day. Charged at what the rider costs us — brutal economics on a small print, so it is never bundled quietly.

    At cost passed through at what the rider charges us

Rider charges are set by the courier, not by us. Whatever it comes to appears on your order before you pay.

What you can print.

Five materials at launch, filtered against what each printer actually has loaded.

  • PLA
  • PETG
  • ABS
  • TPU
  • Resin

Each owner sets their own rate. The quote shows theirs before you commit.

Checked before you pay

  • Watertight, manifold geometry
  • Wall thickness against nozzle diameter
  • Bounding box against every candidate build volume
  • Material and colour actually in stock
  • Owner has free capacity inside your deadline

The rest of it.

The parts most marketplaces leave vague, written down instead.

Trust

Printer verification
Manual review at launch — profile, machine, materials and portfolio checked by a person, not a form.
Quality score
On-time rate, reprint rate, dispute rate, photo-proof compliance. Star ratings alone stop meaning anything above 4.5.
Upload policy
Weapons, keys, medical devices and third-party copyrighted models are refused and queued for review.

Money

Who you buy from
PrintMesh. We are the seller of record and the printer owner is our vendor, which keeps tax and payout complexity off hobbyists.
Price floor
A minimum order value, because below it commission and delivery eat the whole job.
Reprints
Funded from a slice of commission and triggered by a receipt photo inside 24 hours — cheaper than arguing.

Coming next: describe it, don’t model it.

Not everyone owns CAD. Two ways in are being built, and the same waitlist covers both.

  • In development

    Text to model

    Describe the part — a bracket, a knob, a replacement clip — and get a printable mesh back, ready to quote without opening CAD once.

    prompt → mesh → pre-flight → quote

  • In development

    Image to model

    Photograph the broken part sitting on your desk and get a mesh back, measured against a real build volume before anyone spends filament on it.

    photo → mesh → pre-flight → quote

A generated mesh is still a mesh. Both routes run the same pre-flight as an uploaded file — watertight geometry, wall thickness, build volume — so a bad generation is caught before it reaches a printer.

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