What can be printed to be resold for a profit?

Years ago I got a large business inkjet printer for my business and connected it to 1 liter ink bottles so it could print at about 1% the cost per page of a laser printer, I was able to run a printing service while both having incredibly competitive prices and a huge profit margin. After 5 years of use I replaced the inkjet with a high end color laser copier which is great for my other businesses but due to the much higher cost per page of laser prints I had to shut down the printing business as no one is willing to pay the price for laser prints (I knew I was sacrificing my printing business by getting a laser printer).

However, I was wondering what else I could use the printer for to make money, for example I was thinking of maybe designing and printing calendars or something like that.

Does anyone have ideas of things I can print to resell for a profit?

What I mostly use the printer for is to print a book I wrote myself and self-publish, so I guess one obvious answer is "write more books", and I do have a new one on the way, but I'm looking for things that are a bit less time consuming than writing an entire book.

Thanks

 

T-Shirts & clothing for a cheap price in china.

 

Designing business cards, calendars, custom fliers, anything you can think of !!

 

Offer people to print out their books as a service.

Offer some artists to create their own X, buy the X in bulk, add Y for profit.
X - can be anything. T-shirts, calendars, posters, coffee cups, etc.
Y - your printing service. You can also get a margin from simply selling the t-shirts with your print work.
You can market this as "Sell your own X on E-Bay".

You can do something similar with guides. Offer people to print out guides and tell them that they can sell em somewhere.

Also, try searching who needs laser printing. I think laser printers are expensive and I also think architects sometimes need em for 3d pics (not sure tho), so if there is a new office of some sorts opening they might want to hold on to purchasing a laser printer, but still need the laser printing.

 

I don't know how big or specs your printer have but try "Art Work"

Good Luck!

 

Some ideas:

Marketing materials for local businesses
T-shirt transfers (and other transfers)
Catalogs

Wow, this is tougher than I thought it'd be!

 

I would say catalogs. Make sure that they know they to have used computers to create a prototype before they send it to you, then print it for a reasonable price.