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Take to bench (PDF) vs Start a Pour

Two buttons that look similar do very different things — one prints a workbench sheet, the other starts a tracked pour or batch.

Ellie at her workbench
1 min readUpdated July 5, 2026Text

A recipe gives you two ways to actually use it, and they're easy to mix up. Here's the difference.


Take to bench (Export to PDF)

Take to bench — downloads a clean, printable workbench sheet of the recipe. Print it, prop your phone against it, mark it up. It doesn't change anything in the app; it's just the recipe on paper.


Start a Pour (or start a batch)

The tracked option is craft-specific: in a Resin workspace the button reads Start a Pour and launches a guided pour session; in a Candle workspace it starts a production run — or, once you're sizing a wick, a burn-test batch. Either way, Ellie walks you through the steps, and finishing it updates your inventory. This is the tracked version, not just a printout.

Heads up: the button only appears when a recipe can actually be run — it needs to be not archived, have its main material set (a resin, or a wax for a candle recipe), and have at least one step. If you don't see the button, check those three.

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