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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.