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How to Price a job with customer supplied vinyl?

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Hello all!

Does anyone know how I would price a job using customer supplied vinyl to inkjet print on?

Customer wants me to print on specialty type of vinyl.

I would be printing using my Epson Stylus Pro 7600 wide format inkjet printer.

My best guess would be to price it based on ink usage, but how do I do that? It comes out to cost me $0.61 (61 cents) per mL of ink used..... but how do I know how much ink will be used based in milliliters from an inkjet printer?

ANY help or helpful suggestions would be a HUGE help!!! Thank you all again!

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How do you normally price the work that you print?    Do it that way, subtract the price of the normal vinyl you would be using at that price, add a fudge factor for the hassle.....and remember no guarantee on customer supplied materials.

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....and remember no guarantee on customer supplied materials.

second that one. this is a loose-loose situation if you screw up his material. you either have to replace it or he gets angry with you.

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I charge 4 times the ink i used...and i tell them im not gonna replace material if something happens. Do it at your own risk, but i only print on a couple guys material...They are "regulars" and its vinyl i dont want to buy rolls of. The buy the rolls and bring them to me...

If i have the vinyl they need they pay for it, i dont use their vinyl if i have my own, just special cases and odd types of vinyl. Stuff that i will never use and over $500 a roll

To figures it out just figure up how much ink you have to use. My program tells me, not sure if yours does or not.

Heres how i do it

If it says it takes 25cc of ink

a 220cc ink cartridge is $70

$70 divided by 220 cc is .32 per cc of ink

.32 x 25cc it takes to do the job = $8 (this is your cost of doiung the job)

8x4 =$32

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I charge 4 times the ink i used...and i tell them im not gonna replace material if something happens. Do it at your own risk, but i only print on a couple guys material...They are "regulars" and its vinyl i dont want to buy rolls of. The buy the rolls and bring them to me...

If i have the vinyl they need they pay for it, i dont use their vinyl if i have my own, just special cases and odd types of vinyl. Stuff that i will never use and over $500 a roll

To figures it out just figure up how much ink you have to use. My program tells me, not sure if yours does or not.

Heres how i do it

If it says it takes 25cc of ink

a 220cc ink cartridge is $70

$70 divided by 220 cc is .32 per cc of ink

.32 x 25cc it takes to do the job = $8 (this is your cost of doiung the job)

8x4 =$32

Don't forget the fudge factor there - I worked in a small shop with an Epson 7600 for a while, and though I loved the printer, it ate ink.  I figure up that 10-20% of the ink went into the maintenance tank.

IMO, a CIS is a *need*, not a want, for a commercial printer.

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