Guides for selling 3D prints
How to price a print, sell on Etsy, track filament and keep the books, for people who print for money on a few machines.
- 3D printing business taxes in the USWhat the IRS pages say about a small print shop: Schedule C, Form 1099-K, filament as inventory, and writing off the printer. Not tax advice.
- How to price 3D prints, line by lineThree times the filament prices the plastic and nothing else. Every cost a print carries, the markup on top, and what the marketplace takes.
- Is a 3D printing business profitable?It can be, if the price covers the whole cost: filament, power, wear, failed prints, fees and your hours. One product, worked through.
- How to sell 3D prints on EtsyWhat Etsy allows for 3D-printed items, what each fee takes from an order, and how to price so the shipping and the ads are covered.
- How to track filament inventoryThe eye, the scale, the AMS, Spoolman, a sheet or an app: what each tells you about the roll, where each stops, and what a gram is worth.
Keep these numbers for every print
Printyard runs this arithmetic on your phone at the machine and on the web: every quote itemised, every roll to the gram, and a month with the fees and the failed prints already taken out.
