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How to Account for Failed Prints in Pricing

Published Wed Mar 04 2026

Failure-adjusted cost protects margin.

If failure rate is $r$:

$failure_multiplier = 1 / (1-r)$

$failure_adjusted_cost = base_cost * failure_multiplier$

At 10% failure, multiplier is $1/0.9 = 1.111…$.

Small failure rates still compound over many sales. Include this cost from day one.