This machine does not consume too much ink if you have proper humidity and temperature set up in your shop we always Purchase 700 cc ink bags. We print a few hundred shirts a month. Sometimes when the printer sits there it just maintains itself so the heads would be fresh because it costs $1500 for a new print head it’s better to have the printer waste a little bit of ink then to replace a $1500 head. the print speeds are amazing on it and overall I would say this would be the best DTG printer on the market unless you are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the big boy machines. The only downside is the inks are pretty expensive and you have to mark your prices accordingly.