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7. Results
Your most profitable production path
Recommended method
Screen Printing
- • Long effective run length per setup
Cost per sellable garment
€ 1,26
Monthly economic benefit
€ 20.996
Estimated payback
9 mo
Monthly cash flow (after selected payment)
€ 18.019
Cost per sellable garment
Cost by quantity
1–7 pcs → DTG
8–42 pcs → DTF
43–1.000 pcs → Screen Printing
Monthly benefit breakdown
This ROI is demand-limited: available capacity exceeds expected demand.
Cash flow comparison
Total investment
€ 185.600
Cost per print before
€ 0,58
Cost per print after
€ 0,22
ROI over 60 months
578,8 %
Current sellable capacity
27.456 pcs
Target sellable capacity
132.762 pcs
Unique setups
1
Utilization after
21,8 %
All results are non-binding estimates based on the assumptions you entered. They are not financial, tax or legal advice, and not a credit or lease approval.
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Cost levels — direct, full, cash
The same production is evaluated on three levels so operational pricing, accounting margin and liquidity are never mixed up.
Direct cost plus allocated facility overhead and depreciation. This is the accounting view used for margin reporting.
Cost per unit
€ 0,253
Cost per month
€ 6.226
Fixed cost per month
€ 1.610
Margin per unit
€ 12,25 · 98,0 %
Break-even units / month
131
Variable cost per unit
€ 0,187
Scrap rate
1,50 %
Debt service coverage
112,31
Direct cost per unit
| Material | € 0,000 |
| Consumables | € 0,041 |
| Direct labour | € 0,111 |
| Machine energy | € 0,000 |
| Other direct cost | € 0,036 |
| Direct cost | € 0,187 |
Overhead allocation
| Cost pool | Allocation key | Allocated / month |
|---|---|---|
| Maintenance | Machine hours · 15 % | € 105 |
| Additional fixed cost | Units · 100 % | € 250 |
| Machine energyalready in direct cost | Units · 0 % | € 0 |
- Depreciation / month
- € 1.255
- Debt service / month
- € 2.696
- Payback (months)
- 0,6
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Volume-driven cost of producing one sellable unit: material, direct labour, machine energy, consumables. Scrap is spread over good units.
Direct cost plus allocated facility overhead and depreciation. This is the accounting view used for margin reporting.
Direct cost plus overhead that is actually paid, plus loan instalments and leasing. Depreciation is removed because it causes no payment.
Registration & Machine Impact
Compact readout. The full machine analysis is a separate calculator with its own inputs, tabs and report.
- Real sellable output per hour
- 612 pcs/h
- Registration time per job
- 14,0 min
- Cycle bottleneck
- Loading
- Monthly economic effect
- € 6.795
Figures come from the shared calculation engine and follow the inputs of the separate machine calculator.
DTG vs DTF Cost & Sustainability
Compare direct-to-garment and direct-to-film for one job: production cost, ink, energy, consumables, water and optional CO2e.
Job profile
Effective quantity per design: 83,3
Total production cost — DTG
€ 647
Total production cost — DTF
€ 373
Cost per sellable garment — DTG
€ 2,59
Cost per sellable garment — DTF
€ 1,49
Economic recommendation: DTF is the lower-cost option for this job profile.
Resource and environmental recommendation: DTF shows the lower resource footprint with the values entered.
Balanced recommendation: Cost and resource use point to the same method.
No water values entered — the water comparison is omitted.
Total job cost
Cost per sellable garment
Ink consumption (ml)
Electricity (kWh)
Film, powder and pretreatment
Material waste (kg)
CO2e comparison
Sensitivity analysis: cost per garment by quantity
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Overview & comparison
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| Method | Cost per sellable garment | Difference to best |
|---|---|---|
| Screen Printing Recommended method | € 1,26 | — |
| DTF | € 4,30 | +€ 3,04 |
| DTG | € 5,08 | +€ 3,82 |
Monthly economic benefit
€ 20.996
Estimated payback
9 mo
Total investment
€ 185.600
ROI over 60 months
578,8 %
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Understand the method comparison
Knowledge Center- How to choose between screen printing, DTG and DTFA decision framework built on run size, colour count, labour and setup — not on brand preference.10 min
- Contribution margin, variable and fixed costsThe one split that determines whether an extra order helps or hurts.7 min
- Typical setup, registration and cycle timesTime benchmarks that decide short-run profitability.6 min
- Average labour cost by countryLoaded hourly cost of a print operator across key European and North American markets.6 min