Getting started

Printraband is an idle tycoon game. You run print shops. Print stations turn raw materials into products, customers buy them, and you spend the Scrap on upgrades.

The loop

1. Print stations make products. Every venue is a chain of print stations. Level them up so they make products faster and for more profit.
2. Buy upgrades. Each venue has a list of upgrades: more customer slots, drones, kiosks, and speed and profit boosts.
3. Clear the venue. Get the venue to its clear level, then move on to the next one in the zone. Later venues have more print stations and much higher income multipliers.
4. Move through the zones. Each zone ends in a big capstone venue. See Districts & Zones for the full route.

Going further

• Drones: deploy them to run a print station for you.
• Chests: open them for gear, gear blueprints, and Tech Blueprints.
• Gear: equip it in 5 slots for effects like faster printing or extra profit — see Gear Effects for what each one does.
• Tech: add Components to a Tech Blueprint to assemble a companion that collects tips or speeds up deliveries.
• Stash: spend gems on permanent boosts such as offline earnings, tip value, and starting Scrap.

Offline earnings

Your venues keep earning while the game is closed, up to a time limit. The Stash’s Clock makes that limit longer and Beauty Sleep makes offline earnings worth more.