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

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[Kaz-qzoq]

"I only have 24 hrs/day" you gotta up those numbers buddy

[byanymeans]

I appreciate that he had a very logical answer instead of telling you some nonsense.

[rp]

Step 1: Buy a bunch of printers
Step 2: make TikTok’s and YouTube’s in an attempt to make the money back

[FirstNameLastName-ghiw]

My friend makes a couple thousand a month off this printers. It’s all about scaling up, and having the right products. For over a year maybe two he reinvested back into to Etsy to buy more printers. He only works like an hour a day on it to switch out the prints and ship stuff out. It’s slow to start but can ramp up

[awsome]

It is important to note, those 13 hours of print time, is you doing nothing. Other than shipping items out, you are making passive income.

[mylarhyrule]

You also have to account for the filament used, electricity used, cost for the space to use it, fees connected to eBay ads (or wherever you sell them), failed prints, etc…. All I’m saying is telling people you should make $250 a week per printer isn’t realistic…. Without a diverse set of desirable stuff to print, and a solid method to sell them, any hope to make money with a 3D printer is only an excuse to buy a 3D printer for your own prints, lol

[KeredAglo]

3D printing is great for prototyping or extremely low production which I would consider 10 and under.

The opposite is plastic injection molding for high production runs.

But why does no one talk about in between solutions for low production runs? A lot of non mechanical prints I see could be printed, cleaned up and molded for resin casting production runs. A lot of resins can be de-molded and handled after 15 minutes and be set on shelves to finish curing.

So if you have simpler prints look into resin casting as a simple way to up your production.

[throwryuken]

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

[Wooden_pillars_]

How do you factor your overhead cost? Have you measured which 3D printer uses more or less energy? Say for example if you have all your machines making the same thing which uses more energy. Could you do a breakdown of the overhead expenses?

[dsprecision]

Unless your selling a part that take 6 hours to print but is worth $250 each to the customers. All depends on time, cost to print, and product sale price. Also largely depends on printer capabilities. If you can print pc, pekk, peek, nylon, and cf/gf variants of those your profits go up quickly. Which is easy even with an ender 3 with a couple mods, some experience, and a heated enclosure. PLA or PETG will get you absolutely no where other than for prototyping prior to using the real stuff. And if you get an industrial customer its even better.

[thomasnox]

Printing doesn’t always goes as planned. Sometimes you will face quality issues with your printer

[andrewutya]

The prints im currently making takes 1800 grams of pla, 40 hours print time and sells for 300$. Doing a run of 30 and then making an injection mold for the larger orders incoming. But you can make alot kf money if you get in the right position with a company that makes custom stuff.

[ivan]

How about your cost for materials and electricity

[nramember.nd]

The math is correct from a strick accounting perspective. But you only see $40.00 profit when you have 2 whole/competed units over 24 hours.
Not 1.846 units in 24 hours.

[toroddlnning]

"You start with one 3D printer, then". I though He was going to say, then you print another printer. Then you print expontntial amount of printers and you can have exponential production

[calvingreen]

If you get the right contract it can do really well, i make £100 a day after costs on a contract i do and its 20mins work a day 23hr print, sadly only doing that contract 1 day a week but its a massive ongoing contract for years

[brucefulcher]

It really all depends on what part you're making. If you can find some kind of specialty part that is no longer being manufactured and has a high demand then you might be able to get significantly more for the individual parts that you're selling

[gainsgaming]

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

[elguapo]

How expensive is the light bill running all those printers what kind of electrical setup does it take?