The Print Quote Kit
The PrintPin kit for pricing a 3D print and quoting a paper job from every cost the job really carries, not the one a calculator shows first
PrintPin's 3D Printing Cost Calculator says it about itself: the answer covers filament only, so treat it as a floor, not a full quote. Two of the paper tools never meet either. The Booklet Page Calculator knows a 22-page booklet prints as 24 pages; the Print Cost Calculator prices it as 22. And nothing on the site says when a print shop's setup fee stops mattering. The Print Quote Kit is the rest of the quote. Part 1 takes the calculator's own default, 200 g at $25/kg ($5 of filament), through power, machine-hours, failed prints divided in by the success rate and finishing time to $14.16, then prices it for a fee and a margin taken off the price: $23.60, where tripling the filament loses $0.66 a print after a 10% fee and a 30% markup leaves 13.1%. Part 2 counts a booklet in fours (22 pages: 6 sheets, 2 blanks, $110 as written and $120 as printed on 50 copies), puts every quote in one unit, and finds the crossover run where a shop beats your own printer (93 copies on materials, 33 with your time). Every worked figure is an example computed from the site's own calculators; fees, taxes and market prices are yours to look up, and the kit recommends no printer, filament, shop or marketplace. Included: 24 printable pages with seven steps, a 3D quote sheet, a print log, a booklet job sheet, a preflight card, reference tables and a quickstart, plus a personalised sheet worked on the numbers you entered in the calculator you came from.
Look inside
Two full pages from the kit, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.
What is in it
- The landed gram: every gram on the plate, supports and purge included, at what the spool cost to reach your door
- The machine-hour: power from a plug-in meter, printer depreciation and a wear budget, charged to every print-hour
- Failed prints divided in by your logged success rate, and why adding the failure percentage always comes up short
- A price with the fee and margin taken off it, checked by plugging it back in, beside filament x 3 and a markup
- Booklet pages counted in fours: sheets, blanks, self and plus covers, the saddle-stitch limit and creep
- Every quote in one unit: finished pages, printed pages, sheet sides or sheets, with six questions to ask every shop
- The home-or-shop crossover run, with your own time counted and without
- A 3D quote sheet, a print log for your success rate, a booklet job sheet and a preflight card
- Reference tables: example prints priced end to end, booklet sheets by page count, filament cost at a glance
- A personalised sheet: your print's full cost and price at three print speeds, or your job in every billing unit
- ✓ 24 printable pages
- ✓ 10 sections, worksheets and templates
- ✓ A second PDF worked out from the numbers you enter
- ✓ No account needed, just an email address
- ✓ Instant download; link valid 7 days
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The kit picks up where the free 3D Printing Cost Calculator leaves off. The calculator prices the filament and says itself that the answer is a floor; the kit adds the power, the machine-hour, the failed prints and your finishing time, then prices the print for a fee and a margin taken off the price. For paper jobs it sets the Booklet Page, Print Cost, Print Bleed and photo resolution tools side by side: pages counted in fours, every quote in one unit, and the run where a shop beats your own printer. The worked figures are examples; fees, tax and market prices are yours to look up. A method, not tax or business advice or a recommendation of any printer, shop or marketplace.