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pricing Ink usage
Hey guys can anyone give me a very rough price per sqr foot or meter what it would caost me to print full colour on vinyl! (jus the price of the ink) Id be using a roland sc500! Thanks guys
Ryan
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Ryan,
This is pretty much a "how long is a piece of rope" type question. There are too many variables to guestimate ink consumption.
On my printers I use anything from 3 to 20 ml ink per square metre. The SP540 also uses considerably more ink than the VersaArt (IF you can trust the "ink usage" information on the RIP) on the same jobs.
If you want to cost your day to day jobs, calculate at 16 ml/square metre. On average you should use less. Use that figure to fix a price for printing, keeping in mind that you are going to spend more money on media than ink.
If you feel like giving yourself more work to do, you can keep a log of ink consumed divided by media use. I keep count of the vinyl cores and empty carts. Cores x 60 divide by empties give m2/440ml ink. This is also useful in the long run to check print head lifespan.
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as has been said, too many variables on anything accurate…
remember i/we may use a "different" ink and "different" printer to you… so the output is different.
we may also buy our inks cheaper than you… or vice versa… so very difficult.what i do, and this might be daft, but is what i do… solvent printing. £6 per square metre at high dpi and heavy colour coverage. £4 per square metre anything else. then the price of vinyl per "Linear" metre. same as laminate, per "linear" metre… this is what a few of us some years ago workd out the costs to be realistically at. that was 5 years ago…
yes, now we buy ink cheaper and perhaps even the media… but still i keep prices the same. if i am outputting at a lower cost then bravo, i make more money, but i think the idea in keeping costs in mind is so we dont under estimate.hoping i made sense with that…
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Hey thanks to both replys! This really helps im doing a disney scene for my nephews bedroom wall and just want to charge cost price so just very rough guestimate is adequate! Its also going to come in handy for the future!
Many thanks for the informative replys
Ryan
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quote Ryan McHenry:Hey thanks to both replys! This really helps im doing a disney scene for my nephews bedroom wall and just want to charge cost price so just very rough guestimate is adequate! Its also going to come in handy for the future!Many thanks for the informative replys
Ryan
your lucky, all my nieces and nephews have theirs done, but i’ve yet to get cost price offers 😀
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Lol if it wasnt for the fact that i need the practice/experiance id be ripping him off and asking for a deposit lol :lol1:
Ryan
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