How much money can one 3D printer make in a week?

You need to subtract filament costs and electricity costs first though

Electricity and filament costs

If you printed that thing on an ender 3 v2 in 12 hours in Finland you'd spend 3.24€ in electricity damn.. I really thought it'd be more, well it is but that's the transport cost which adds to it another 3-5€ depending

13 hours of electricity consuming machine to make one unworthy product ?!
Are you mad ?

And thats not counting the much power consumption or the fact that you can even sell or not.
So basically this business is trash

I can print four dragons in one day on one printer. 20 a piece all day long.....your doing something wrong kid.

Yessir

there's more challenges, too, maintenance, breakdowns, the speghetti of doom, you know. that sort of thing...

dont forget your electric bill!

Where did you buy your printers and materials?

Minus electricity and material

The answer to this question is: $0.00, anything more is a bonus! That's realistic. It could even be negative, if you owe on your printer! What you make, is calculated by SO MANY variables ...

Substract filament cost and current consumption...

Too bad he hasn't figured out how to use his 3D printer to clone himself so he can work more than 24 hours per day.

How much does it cost to run these things for 13hours a day? How much electricity?

Yo is that Izzydrinks?

PPE, pls wear the proper PPE when you are in an area with a 3d printer running. The VOC's produced by the printers filaments/resins/etc are harmful and cancer causing, as well as a variety of other health problems.

A respirator (depending on what chemicals, proper eye wear, etc).

For those out there not Hazmat or HazWhopper certified, pls get certified before handling chemicals.
Asthma, lung failure, cancer, bad blood circulation (which can lead to clots, amputation, stroke, death) are the most common negative side effects of chemical exposure.

Carbon filters do not eliminate all VOC's, they eliminate odors and some VOC's fumes.

Safety 1st people.

Don't forget about energy pull. 8 printers 24 hours per day can rack up that electricity bill

How about electricity and all that

What’s the electricity bill tho

*Electric bill joined the chat

brian stelter got some good advice for once! Thanks

What about power usage maintenance and materials cost?

Sooo nothing after energy bill and filament cost. Got it. I’ll stick to printing stuff for myself 🫠

please tell me you dont run a printer 13 hours evey time you sell one of those!.... MAKE A RESIN CAST MOLD!..hell, make several! work smarter not harder

out of curiosity have you done over all cost. do have the breakdown with utilities increase, maintenance and filaments? how long before you break even after your 3d print farm investment?

Btw make sure to factor in variable costs e.g filament and fixed cost e.g buying the 3d printer to work out profit. As profit is revenue - total cost, not the amount of money you are payed 👍

This is awesome man keep grinding before you know it you will have a warehouse full of printers doing big contracts

assuming there is no power outage

Now lets deduct for materials and electricity cost

An obvious alternative is to sell smaller items at similar price points and print several at once. Large items at low retail cost are definitely not going to be profitable. Also, reinvesting into a newer and faster printer (preferably one that also fails less often) can help increase that hourly rate. But yeah, it's almost never worth quitting the day job.

😁😁😁 fool ,, make die of that product and start casting of your product

I’m sure someone said it but… electricity and products cost different amounts depending where you live, that’s HIS profit. You might be less than that just based on your location. We just bought our first printer but have no -lans on making it a cash yet.

What's your electric bill look like?

Then at the end of the month, DWP collects all your profits because of the electricity you used. Also you need materials so now you gotta get a loan to get filament. Doesn't sound like a profitable endeavor

To make it realistic you need to also add the cost of electricity ⚡️ + primary plastic that is used in the product and also shipping and packeting

"product" lol this guy is trying so hard for absolutely nothing

Step 1 for starting a print farm for profit: Don't.

Hello I have a project in need worked on but I don’t have a 3d printer I want to know if I can pay you to create what in need with a 3d printer

So what the hell is that that u print like what’s it for ?? Lol

And electricity bill?

My one printer made me about $300 a day when I had my business. I didn’t scale up because buying more printers is a ridiculous way of manufacturing a product. Maybe if you run a prototype printing farm it’s different

Your head and beard looks 3D printed

He didn’t subtract for supply purchases or anything he may do with shipping. His profit is much less.

13hrs is a lot of time for something to go wrong too and if it goes wrong 10yrs in you just lost a lot of money. If you’re just starting out I’d recommend smaller products that print faster with less material.

Didn't include electric bills, and material cost along with packaging costs, as many of you will be paying monthly installments for those printers. Also have to consider defects which you loose potentially 13 hrs. Doesn't leave much. But some people fall into the trap and it's already too late as you have invested in all those printers.

What’s the overhead cost and start up cost. You need to pay for printer, filament, electricity and repairs?

Now factor in the electricity costs.

Don't forget about the money from having people subscribe to print and sell your basic low quality designs