InkFormulation Return on Investment Calculator

Calculations are based on packaging and large commercial print workflows.

New Formulating System

Cost of technician per hour:

$/€

Cost of press per hour:

$/€

Price of InkFormulation incl. Spectrophotometer:

$/€

Recipe Workout

with InkFormulation

manually

Time needed for new formulations:

minutes

Number of new formulas per month:

6

Time needed for mixing and correcting of known formulas:

minutes

Number of known formulas per month:

15

Press down time because of recipe correction/adjusting:

30

minutes

Cost for new formulas per month:

160
720

$/€

Cost of known formulas per month:

200
600

$/€

Cost press down time per month:

3150
4725

$/€

Total formulating cost per month:

3510
6045

$/€

Total formulating cost per year:

42120
72540

$/€

Formulation savings with InkFormulation per year:

30420

$/€

Ink Consumption

with InkFormulation

manually

Quantity (kg) of basic inks / month:

1000

kg

Quantity (kg) of spot colors printed / month:

566.67

kg

Quantity (kg) of ink returns inks / month:

33.33

kg

Average price of basic color / kg:

20

$/€

Average price of spot color / kg:

35

$/€

Cost for storing ink returns / t / month:

20

$/€

Cost for dumping 1 kg of waste ink:

2

$/€

Quantity of waste ink dumped / month:

16.67

kg

Average cost of basic colors / month:

20000
20000

$/€

Average cost of spot colors / month:

11333.33
21000

$/€

Cost of waste ink dumping / month:

33.33
100

$/€

Cost of storing ink returns / month:

0.67
2

$/€

Total ink costs per month:

31367.33
41102

$/€

Total ink costs per year:

376408
493224

$/€

Savings per year:

116816

$/€

Return

Total savings with InkFormulation per year

147236

$/€

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