How to Use This Calculator
Enter the material cost, print time, electricity cost, printer depreciation, labor, overhead, failure rate, platform fees, and target profit margin for the job. The calculator combines these costs, accounts for expected failed prints, and estimates a price that meets your target margin after platform fees.
- Use your actual material cost rather than the retail price of a full spool.
- Include the time you spend preparing, monitoring, finishing, packaging, and handling the order when those activities are part of your labor cost.
- Increase the failure rate when the job or material has a meaningful risk of failed prints.
The recommended price is a pricing model, not a required market price. Compare it with the customer's requirements, your competitive position, and any additional costs that are specific to the job.
Limitations and Assumptions
The calculator estimates job pricing from the costs and target margin you enter. It does not determine what customers will pay, account for every possible business expense, or predict the actual failure rate of a print.
- Printer depreciation is modeled from the printer's cost, useful life, and print time entered in the calculator.
- Failure rate increases the expected cost of a successful print by accounting for failed attempts across the full production cost.
- Platform fees are applied according to the percentage you enter and may not represent every marketplace or payment-processing charge.
- Shipping, taxes, refunds, discounts, and other order-specific charges are not automatically included unless you incorporate them into the relevant cost inputs.
Use the result as a pricing and margin-planning estimate. For a customer quote, review the full job scope and any costs that are not represented by the calculator inputs.