Estimating Ink Consumption and Cost for Roland Jobs - needs updates

If you’re trying to get an accurate material and ink cost to help price your Roland prints, Versaworks provides some key info.

Knowing how much ink you’re using will allow you to price your products so you’re not cutting into your margin.

Launch Versaworks. I am using Versawork 7 on my MAC, but it’s of course also compatible with PC.

With one of the queues option click the + button to import a new file and browse to your file or select a job that’s already in the queue. .

In the panel on the right, you’ll have data about the file starting with File Attributes. Scroll down to the Job Properties section.

At the bottom you’ll see “Ink Consumption”. An estimated amount of ink needed to print the select job will be displayed.

If you have jobs nested you’ll have more than one value.

If you don’t already know how much you’re paying for ink, the BN2 ink cartridges cost: or per mL. Use that number of understand how much it will cost to print your job.

Of course this only gives you a portion of your job cost. You can use our free Roland cost calculator to get a much more complete picture or upgrade to the Advanced Roland Cost Calculator that includes many more options.

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