Lowest Cost
Per Print
DIGITAL GARMENT
PRINTING PROFITS
Digital Garment Printing Profits | Lowest Cost Per Print
Digital Garment Printers all have one fundamental thing in common. They all use ink.
The amount of garment printer ink is used in printing shirts and the cost of that ink serious impact on the cost of your end product. In a competitive market, that may mean the difference between a profitable job or not and in how you price your work in relation to the competition.
Cost Per Print for Green Earth T-shirt 14″ x 12″
Based on Ink useage estimates and current publicly available Ink pricing information –
Printed on Dark shirt NOT including shirt cost.
$1.04
$1.96
$2.58
$3.43
- A quality blank t shirt, like the Anvil 980, is going to cost everyone about $2.37 from Sanmar.com.
- You will pay your employees the market rate in your area, and so will your competition
- Depending on where you do your production work, it’s very likely your building overhead, electricity and other ancillary costs of doing business will be roughly the same.
- Many times your customer is bringing YOU the artwork, so while talent and creativity are important it won’t necessarily effect the cost of your production work.
– 5 days a week – 50 weeks per year and sell for $15…
$4,600
More per year than
$7,700
More per year than
$11,950
More per year than
$23,000
More in 5 Years
$38,500
More in 5 Years
$59,750
More in 5 Years
To see what 50 and 100 shirts a day savings is… click image.
What are the KEY factors in how much you can make doing direct to garment or digital garment printing?
The most obvious, trackable and easily measured KEY to profits for your shirt printing business is the cost per print.
Cost per print, and more clearly the cost for the INK in each print, is what makes the M Series Industrial Direct to Garment Printers the most profitable digital printers on the market.
Because of the cost per print using the garment printing ink that comes in every M2 it is less expensive to print a design on a t shirt than Epson DTG, less than Brother DTG, less than Anajet, less than Kornit and every other brand.
According to publicly available pricing information to date, here is how significant the difference in ink costs are by liter for a few of the competitive printers. The following percentages are how much more costly the inks are vs. Genuine DTG Inks and the Ink Savers Pro program from ColDesi:
Comparing the Cost Per Liter of Ink
Percentage MORE Than DTG
%
Cmyk Ink COST MORE
%
White Ink COST MORE
%
Cmyk Ink COST MORE
%
White Ink COST MORE
%
Cmyk Ink COST MORE
%
White Ink COST MORE
The M Series from ColDesi is high efficient in all of these categories and that just adds to the increased profitability!
Workflow certainly has a big impact. Workflow is generally how an order moves through your business. It starts when you take the phone call or get the order and includes everything from artwork production, packing and shipping and printing the custom t shirts that happens in between.
The point of a good workflow is to maximize the number of shirts you can print in a day.
The M2 and M6 Industrial Direct to Garment Printers have some key features that make you more productive. Multiple shirt printing, removable platens and a hyper efficient RIP software – all of which are discussed in this article. BOTH printers excel in flexible and efficient workflow and that will mean more profits for you and your business.
*calculations based on published or researched data, February 2017. Ink usage estimated using the same graphic – shown.