BUYING A $260,000 DTG PRINTER

Buying a $260,000 dollar DTG Printer and showing you how to get one for your clothing line.
Owning a DTG Printer is not for everyone and there are ways to grow your brand without one. Checkout the FREE apparel training we created to help: bit.ly/Free-Apparel-Training
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In this video we share the process of what you need to do before financing any equipment for your t-shirt business. Whether you’re thinking about buying a $260,000 dollar DTG Printer or buying a $20,000 DTG Printing Machine, we share some of the key numbers you need to consider before making a buying decision.
Here’s a breakdown of some of the expenses we covered in this video. Make sure you run your own projections and gauge the demand for your brand and in your area if you are offering printing services to other t shirt brands.
Equipment/ Lease: anything you purchased for business use and due on a monthly basis.
Office Cost: the true cost to house your business operations.
Utilities: gas, water, electricity
Internet: you’ll need the best connection to stay up and running.
Phone: a phone line strictly for business
Insurance
Wages/ Administration Costs: a salary to pay you or someone that works for you
*Important to note- the numbers we ran in the video are very conservative based on a smaller operation which is not advised when making a large investment like this. Ideally you’ll have at least 2-3 people focused on sales/ distribution of your product or services in order to have this machine operating at full capacity.
When looking at purchasing equipment for your t-shirt business you’ll also need to consider what is included with your purchase and if there are any additional upfront or future costs that may not be clearly stated. Some of which include:
Shipping
Warranty
Workstation/ Computer
Software
Pretreat Machine
Dryer
Heat Press
Training/ support
Ink Costs
Maintenance costs
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[@wmcrash]

Doing the math with retail prices (like $25) in the context of large volume printing is a dangerous proposition. I would say do the math with $8 instead of $21.80.

[@enzozikuliza3221]

Please never stop making these videos🔥👏they inspire for real🙏🙏

[@patsymoralesgonzalez9657]

Thanks for an honest breakdown and best of luck!

[@FIGHTSEEN]

Appreciate the honesty about the numbers.

[@johnxsantos]

Always important to run them 🙏🏽

[@nabeel1989choudhary]

Wow $260000 worth of DTG printer That sounds crazy man Wish you best of luck I have a question how can we get Omniprintr in uk!

[@atanaciobalmania3293]

Thanks for creating this video. It is very informative.

[@SeezSantos]

This is great! Not only is the information great but it was awesome to go in undercover ! 👊🏽

[@larrylogan8648]

Man, I wish I had seen this before I considered buying my new DTG (that I really didn't want/need) but was suckered into purchasing under the premise that I would be plugged into a DTG Fulfillment Group that would clear me $39k/mo. In my first and only year, before the group folded I had a gross profit of $4324.00 but spent $4400.00 on inks and machine cleaning solutions alone. Bummer.

[@johnxsantos]

what was the DTG fulfillment group called if you don't mind sharing?

[@larrylogan8648]

@@johnxsantos Inklocker, not that I blame them, it was Anajet/Ricoh that misrepresented the potential, even after I specifically asked them if people were actually generating the income that they were talking about.

[@chromosome24]

Your brother looks like McLovin

[@johnxsantos]

Chicka chicka yea!

[@rakeshsingh1]

🤣🤣🤣

[@10fadhlyumar19]

hahahahaha

[@m.abdelmeseh]

Hi John, At min 15 of this video I would like to make a correction in the math. Your assumption is built on dividing the number of shirts to be produced by 30 days in a month, while the working month is only 20 days (unless you want yourself or your staff to be working 7 days a week) so in other words in order to break even per month (assuming 20 days working per month) should be around 32 shirts per day not 21. [630 shirts divided by 20 working days per month = 31.5 shirts rounded up to 32 shirts]

[@rickallenphoto]

Without getting into a debate as to the correct values of any of your expense categories, you missed a couple of important line items. Four instantly come to mind: 1) manufacturing yield; 2) scheduled and 3) unscheduled maintenance and 4) miscellaneous non-production labor hours (such as vacation, training, sickness, and the like). Even on the most sophisticated lines, mfg yield never seems to top out higher than around 90%, because things happen all the time. On such a large machine, one needs to schedule for maintenance - both in terms of downtime and the cost of a technician to perform that maintenance. The same for un-scheduled maintenance, except usually these costs are higher, because of the need to get back on line quickly. And finally, it is always amazing how many hours in a year are spent on non-production issues - even for those whose job is dedicated for production. A good rule of thumb is that your fixed costs and maintenance sum to ~30% of total sales.

[@johnxsantos]

Yes, after filming I realized how much more I missed in the numbers, so glad you pointed it out!

[@anunnaki7000BC]

Thank you sir for all information give to your Followers and others

[@johnxsantos]

Thank you for watching and subscribing my friend. 🙏🏽

[@moses_muhia473]

Thank you for the great content!

[@atimic]

Chuck and Edsel, both amazing people!!

[@privatepaula278]

this video wouldve been PERFECT if it wasnt clickbait

[@michaeliller2421]

DTG ist good for if a costumer need only few shirts, no screen is needed and u can print one shirt only. If you need more shirt with the same design i think screnn printing ist fast and cheaper

[@glasscleaner8970]

Is very exciting to get ur new machine

[@daggerstreetwear]

great information. u got a new sub!

[@stepyourshirtupiamunlimite3096]

thanks, i learned a lot

[@PassionPainNDemonsStreetwear]

Good to see Edsel from Anajet over at Omniprint !

[@user-sy2mh6dx1r]

Hello, blogger. I am from China, I really like your video, and I pay attention to your video from a year or so ago. However, my English is limited. If you have time and are willing, can you upload subtitles so that KZbin can be automatically translated into other countries' languages for viewing. The current video language is youtube's own recognition of English and then translated, the accuracy is not high. Finally, thank you for uploading so many great videos.

[@johnxsantos]

Thank you my friend. I will start to look into translation. The only issue I have with translating into foreign languages is not knowing if it’s accurate. Would you mind reviewing the language in your country? If so please send me a message on Instagram: www.Instagram.com/johnxsantos

[@scott8193]

This video shows common sense ain’t common 😂. People need someone to give them a template to input THEIR expenses into to determine THEIR profit wow 😂😂. Great video btw. Can’t wait for the day I’m buying a Kornit industrial dtg ❤

[@boomiedave]

260k and Chuck isn't available? Are you kidding me lol. With those prices they should rush a human to your doorstep in 30 minutes or less. :) Good Luck Man :)

[@b.real.1]

Exactly🤨

[@paulanthony873]

You forgot cleaning g, waste ink for cleaning the heads plus maintenance per shirt

[@AquaMarino]

Congrats

[@AldrichQuaiHoi]

Do the garments still need pretreatment ? With their formulation of inks

[@6lol6158]

not worth 260k you can buy 4 epson f2100 for 43k and it will out perform this

[@metrobar3367]

The cheetah prints a blk in 30secs. F2100 is slow as fuck

[@georgeroman6375]

Hi does the cheetah pretreat the shirt ? Or juts press ?

[@scott8193]

The way you are cool with the staff. I know you didn’t pay 260k especially being a display unit. Epson discounted me their f3070 to 15k each for 3 brand new units. Msrp is like 50k each 😂

[@dunya8658]

What is the best method of t shirt printing DTG or SCREEN PRINTING

[@madmaxer]

what is the background music at the beginning of this video ?

[@seyedmojtabasiadat9211]

how much was the ink cost on black and white tee ? you forgot to tell that

[@veeanon2238]

Lol I lowered my cost of living to $800 a month... so, I can invest my money into the business fully.

[@stcl3]

So If You are a Start Up Co ,Probably not a Great investment ,A company that has been running for years and is making money ,And wants to grow And can afford the payments ,Then go for it :) This is a Great unit :)

[@6lol6158]

Do you know omni printers use older epson print heads????

[@veeanon2238]

Yes, which is why you should use a p600 and convert it into a DTG.

[@junflorese512]

No pre-treatment, nor heat pressing or no shirt preparation needed before the actual printing?

[@SeezSantos]

Jun Florese you still need to pretreat! No hear pressing due to the fact that you have the dryer

[@roberthorniacek4559]

don't forget to bye the dryer... hehe

[@ClankyRochet]

Man, that's a scary investment, especially having to get a finance to buy the printer. I hope your math is right. Ps. You didn't mention the set up cost.

[@pwalshKansas]

I feel that the equipment acquisition, overhead, production cost, and gross margin analysis used I this example is borderline irresponsible. There’s no information related to the cost of equipment and labor expenses required for pre-treating and curing the garments. Where are the equipment maintenance costs being accounted for? Extended warranty / maintenance programs for these machines can run around 10% of the equipment purchase price on an annual basis. Another big factor is the assumed +$20.00 per garment gross profit margin. To make anything like this profit per garment the operator needs to be direct selling their own retail garment line. Where are the costs factored in for creating the designs, marketing the garments, and other customer acquisition expenses? Alternatively if your business model is acting as a contract printer for another companies clothing line you should expect profit margins that are closer to $2.00 per garment versus $20.00. Anyone who would consider making such a major purchase decision based on this limited ROI, needs to get professional help

[@MrGYPSYSPADE]

haha. you got solid points there.

[@itateaupa562]

Lol not to be negative rn but the profit after sell is actually $20.80 not $21.80 lol other keep grinding. Love the content man🙌🏾

[@johnxsantos]

😆

[@grandmasoffgridliving]

You forgot the ink costs!

[@kennykreations185]

Unless you have already a running business or you are rich ...you do not need this machine no one is printing 18000 shirts lol

[@jonathanaldridge8386]

25 - 4.20 = 20.80

[@josetaychu8713]

Puedes hacer un video en español, esta bastante interesante. Gracias

[@lxstangs]

Running 7 days a week? At 5 or 6 days a week it's more a day

[@nazkabir3868]

30 days out the week 😂

[@doubleglaze7979]

Chad brandon Ps fanboy ?

[@FISHONOVERLAND]

Kornit Money .... no thanks 😂

[@antnrvv]

M&Rs maverick is way better!!