How Much to Charge for 3D Prints

Start with a reviewed production cost, choose margin or markup deliberately, and account for the selling fees you enter. The result explains your pricing assumptions; it cannot establish what a customer will pay.

Start with production cost K

The five-part production baseline gives K = 39.192 currency units for the complete fictional order. K includes the selected production scope before selling profit and entered selling fees. If intake is unresolved, return to the intake decision before treating the scope as agreed.

If you bring in the complete order cost, do not multiply that total by quantity again. Quantity can describe the planned order without turning an order total into a per-item cost. Retain mixed-part costs at order level unless you have an explicit allocation.

Choose margin or markup

Define K = complete order production cost; P = selling price; m = target margin fraction; u = markup fraction; f = fee fraction on P; F = fixed fee once per order. Convert percentages to fractions before calculation.

Margin: P = (K + F) / (1 - m - f). Margin expresses profit after entered fees as a fraction of selling price. Markup: P = (K × (1 + u) + F) / (1 - f). Markup targets profit equal to u × K after those fees.

Apply the entered fee basis

The percentage applies to this calculated selling price, and the fixed amount applies once per order. Check the actual channel's fee basis separately. If fees are already in K, separate fee inputs must be zero. Unentered taxes, delivery charges and other fees remain outside the result.

The existing price calculator requires finite non-negative inputs and a positive whole quantity. Margin + percentage fee must be below 100%; the markup fee must be below 100%. Full-precision arithmetic is retained until presentation.

Apply a minimum and review realised margin

Apply the minimum last. With a 65 minimum, the 60.295384615… margin/fee result becomes 65.00. The 5% fee is then 3.25; profit after that fee is 22.558 and realised margin is approximately 34.704615%. The target remains 30%, but the minimum changes the realised result. These are fictional calculations, not market rates.

Do not add a second failure budget after importing a reviewed K. If quantity, material or layout changes, re-slice and revise production first. Shared preparation and repeated run work can change differently; the old order total is not automatically a unit price.

Prepare the customer document

Retain the private pricing worksheet with its assumptions. Prepare the customer quotation from the reviewed order price, then use the pre-send record to check scope, references and the exported PDF. The customer document omits internal cost/margin. Neither an estimate nor a quotation version records customer acceptance. Currency selection relabels values; it does not perform foreign exchange or calculate tax.