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UV Printing Service

Running a UV printing service for personalized products across many different businesses, not just phone cases

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Startup cost: Moderate to high ($2,199 for the machine)

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What It Is

Buy a desktop UV printer (prints on glass, wood, metal, plastic, packaging, and more, with UV-cured ink that resists fading) and offer personalization/printing runs to a wide range of small businesses: personalized bottle openers for a brewery, wooden award plaques for a company, printed cosmetics boxes, engraved puzzles — each production run can be a different client's order.

The Pitch

The presenter frames the value as: a basic wholesale phone case is cheap, but the same case personalized with a name or photo sells for several times more because it's now unique and incomparable to a generic product — and the same machine and logic applies across many other hard-surface products.

Who It’s Best For

Someone comfortable marketing a personalization/printing service to multiple different small business types rather than specializing in one product.

The Truth (as we see it)

UV printing on hard surfaces is a real, established small-manufacturing capability, and the personalization value-premium described is standard, sound pricing logic. No specific revenue figures given.

Our assessment, based on the video and what’s typical across similar videos. We don’t independently verify income claims or prices.

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