Print cost calculator for large format

Free tool: work out the real cost per print job — ink, media, machine, setup, finishing, run size — and a selling price from your target margin. No sign-up. A small taster of what Printometer measures automatically.

Calculate print costs in large format

Enter your values and play with the numbers. First the ink per m², then the real full cost per print job – including setup and finishing.

Just so you know what you are looking at: This calculator is a small taster – the manual calculation for a single job, with estimates. Printometer, the actual product, measures exactly these values automatically at your machines. Every job, every day.

Quick: ink cost per m²

Ink price

€ / litre

Ink usage

ml / m²

Ink cost per m²

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That is only the tip of the iceberg: on roll printers ink is often just 10–20 % of the real cost. Media, machine, setup and finishing are still missing.

Pro calculator: full cost per print job

Area & media

Print width

Print length

Media price

€ / m²

Printed area

m²

Machine, setup & labour

Machine hourly rate

€ / h

Print time

min

Labour rate

€ / h

Setup / make-ready

min

Operation / rework

min

Setup is the per-job machine make-ready (media change, profile, test print). Ink price and ml/m² come from the quick calculator above.

Finishing & post-processing

Laminating / protection

€ / m²

Grommets / keder

pcs

Price per grommet

€ / pc

Cutting / assembly / mounting

€ flat

Exactly the part a flat ink surcharge overlooks entirely.

Result per job

Cost per print job

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Cost per m²

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Ink–

Media–

Machine–

Setup–

Labour–

Finishing–

This calculator is the taster – Printometer is the measuring instrument. What you estimate here by hand for a single job, Printometer does automatically for every print job: it pulls the measured consumption straight from your machines' accounting data (Canon Colorado, Epson SureColor and more), archives it for good before the printer overwrites it, and turns it into cost per job, material, machine and print mode – with your own prices and valid-from dates. Plus analytics over time, post-costing of entire orders with contribution margin, and access for your whole team. This calculator shows a fraction of that.

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