diff --git a/plugins/UM3NetworkPrinting/src/Cloud/CloudApiClient.py b/plugins/UM3NetworkPrinting/src/Cloud/CloudApiClient.py
index e5524a2e45..379d66f9bb 100644
--- a/plugins/UM3NetworkPrinting/src/Cloud/CloudApiClient.py
+++ b/plugins/UM3NetworkPrinting/src/Cloud/CloudApiClient.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import urllib.parse
 from json import JSONDecodeError
 from time import time
 from typing import Callable, List, Type, TypeVar, Union, Optional, Tuple, Dict, Any, cast
+from pathlib import Path
 
 from PyQt6.QtCore import QUrl
 from PyQt6.QtNetwork import QNetworkRequest, QNetworkReply
@@ -30,6 +31,14 @@ CloudApiClientModel = TypeVar("CloudApiClientModel", bound=BaseModel)
 """The generic type variable used to document the methods below."""
 
 
+try:
+    with open(Path(__file__).parent / "machine_id_to_name.json", "rt") as f:
+        MACHINE_ID_TO_NAME: Dict[str, str] = json.load(f)
+except Exception as e:
+    Logger.logException("e", f"Could not load machine_id_to_name.json: '{e}'")
+    MACHINE_ID_TO_NAME = {}
+
+
 class CloudApiClient:
     """The cloud API client is responsible for handling the requests and responses from the cloud.
 
@@ -84,13 +93,8 @@ class CloudApiClient:
         # conversion!
         # API points to "MakerBot Method" for a makerbot printertypes which we already changed to allign with other printer_type
 
-        method_x = {
-            "ultimaker_method":"MakerBot Method",
-            "ultimaker_methodx":"MakerBot Method X",
-            "ultimaker_methodxl":"MakerBot Method XL"
-        }
-        if machine_type in method_x:
-            machine_type = method_x[machine_type]
+        if machine_type in MACHINE_ID_TO_NAME:
+            machine_type = MACHINE_ID_TO_NAME[machine_type]
         else:
             machine_type = machine_type.replace("_plus", "+")
             machine_type = machine_type.replace("_", " ")
diff --git a/plugins/UM3NetworkPrinting/src/Cloud/machine_id_to_name.json b/plugins/UM3NetworkPrinting/src/Cloud/machine_id_to_name.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ccd76ab34b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/UM3NetworkPrinting/src/Cloud/machine_id_to_name.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "ultimaker_method": "MakerBot Method",
+    "ultimaker_methodx": "MakerBot Method X",
+    "ultimaker_methodxl": "MakerBot Method XL"
+}