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80K views 247 replies 60 participants last post by  sthasitall 
I've mentioned this in previous printer posts, and it's worth repeating here.

We need to be of the mindset that a printer is a consumable product, just like your ink and transfer paper. Yet, most think of them as durable goods. They're not.

Printers don't last forever (or very long for that matter) yet we have an expectation that they should.

You spend more money on ink than you do on a printer. Case in point, the Epson P600 can be bought for $770 on Amazon. The ink system alone from Conde costs $700. Once 1 cartridge is refilled, you've paid more for ink than the printer.

Just like you price your sublimation work based on how many prints you'll get from a container of ink, we also price our sublimation work with the assumption that we will need to buy a printer once a year when the warranty expires.

That means if you're doing 10,000 prints on a $770 printer, 8 cents of every print needs to be set aside for a new printer in a year.

If you adopt that mindset, you will mind as little about replacing a printer as you do replacing a cartridge of ink. And you'll have the money earned to buy a new one.
Exactly. These printers are inexpensive and essentially disposable.

Even a $15k F2000 or $250k Kornit must be depreciated over its useful life, else $250k is a lot of $$$$$$ to flush.
 
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