How Can You Make Money with a Wall Printer Besides Wall Printing?
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If you are considering buying a wall printer, or you have already started taking on wall printing projects, one question naturally comes up:
Can you use the machine to generate income beyond printing directly on customers’ walls?
On-site wall printing is the most direct and common commercial application of a wall printer, but it is not the only potential revenue stream.
A wall printer is essentially a direct-to-surface UV printing system. When the material surface, UV ink adhesion, and machine configuration are suitable, it can print on materials such as canvas, wood, acrylic, metal, glass, and tile in addition to walls. This gives you room to extend your business beyond standard wall printing services.
Let’s look at how these applications can create additional revenue opportunities for your wall printer.
1. Use a wall printer to create custom decorative products
Wall printing projects have one obvious limitation: you normally need to travel to the customer’s location, and every order depends on a specific wall.
If you print artwork on canvas, wood panels, acrylic sheets, metal panels, door panels, or other suitable materials, however, you are no longer selling only an on-site printing service. You are creating a customized product that can be produced, transported, and delivered.
This gives you a revenue stream that works differently from traditional wall printing projects.
✅ Custom canvas wall art
Canvas is one of the easier products to start with.
You can print customer photos, illustrations, photography, or other design files onto canvas. After printing, you can deliver the canvas itself or stretch and frame it to create a finished piece of decorative wall art.
Compared with standard wall printing, the biggest difference is that you do not need to work at the customer’s location. Production can be completed in your own workshop.
This can also expand your potential customer base.
In addition to homeowners, you can work with photographers, artists, and interior designers who want to turn their work into customized canvas prints. Hotels, restaurants, offices, and other commercial spaces may also need larger decorative pieces.
If you already offer wall printing services, canvas products can also become an additional sale to existing customers.
For example, a restaurant that hires you to print a themed feature wall may also want several framed canvas prints in the same visual style. A homeowner who orders a mural for a child’s room may want matching canvas artwork using the same design.
This means one customer doesn’t necessarily have to place only one wall-printing order.
✅ Wood, acrylic, and metal can also become standalone products
If you want to offer more product options, you can also consider wood, acrylic, and metal.
Different materials create different visual effects. Natural wood retains its grain and texture. Acrylic is more suitable for modern, transparent-looking decoration, while metal panels are often used in commercial spaces, exhibition areas, and branded displays.
The same design does not have to be produced in only one format. Depending on the customer’s interior style, budget, and intended use, you can offer versions made from different materials.
Instead of selling one fixed “printing project,” you can offer different types of customized decorative products.
Not every panel can simply be placed in front of a wall printer and printed without preparation.
Surface conditions and UV ink adhesion vary between materials, so some substrates may require appropriate surface treatment before printing. Transparent, dark-colored, or certain special materials may also require white ink as an underbase.
✅ Personalize laptops, luggage, and other suitable products
Beyond canvas and decorative panels, suitable laptop exteriors, certain luggage surfaces, and other UV-printable objects can also be customized with names, photos, illustrations, logos, or other designs.
Compared with standardized products, these items focus more on individual design and one-of-a-kind visual customization, making them suitable for one-off custom orders.
If you want to explore more examples, you can also read our blog: What Kinds of Projects Can a Wall Printer Handle?
2. Charge a printing fee for customer-supplied materials
If you do not want to purchase and store different materials yourself, there is another straightforward way to use a wall printer:
Let customers provide the material or product, complete the printing for them, and charge a printing fee.
The difference from the previous model is simple.
When you produce canvas art or decorative panels, you are selling a finished product. With customer-supplied materials, the customer already owns the substrate, and you provide the printing service.
One practical advantage is that you do not need to keep a large inventory of panels in different materials, sizes, and thicknesses.
For example, a customer may already have an acrylic company sign and only need a logo and text printed onto it. A renovation company may already have prepared decorative panels for a project but still need someone to complete the final graphic printing.
You can take responsibility for that part of the production process.
This type of cooperation can be particularly suitable for one-off custom work and small batches.
You can also work with existing household components rather than only new panels. Cabinet doors, wardrobe panels, interior doors, and decorative panels may all be potential customization projects when their surfaces are suitable for printing.
For example, someone renovating a kitchen or bedroom may not want to replace every existing cabinet door. They may simply want to change the visual appearance of the surface. When the material is suitable for printing, patterns, textures, or other customized graphics can be added to the existing component.
In this situation, you are not manufacturing furniture. You are providing a surface refresh or customization service by giving an existing component a new visual design.
For customers who only want to update part of a room or piece of furniture, this provides another way to customize the surface while keeping the original component. For your business, it creates another type of small custom order that does not depend on a wall.
3. Partner with interior designers and renovation companies
ou do not have to find every end customer yourself.
Another option is to build relationships with local interior designers, renovation companies, and spatial design teams.
These businesses already work on residential properties, restaurants, offices, and commercial spaces. During the decoration stage, some projects may require custom canvas prints, decorative panels, cabinet graphics, or other small-scale surface customization.
When those projects are suitable for a wall printer, you can handle the printing portion.
For the designer or contractor, you provide an additional production option they can use in their projects. For you, the partnership becomes another source of potential orders.
4. Add floor printing as another on-site printing service
Walls are not the only surfaces in commercial spaces that can be customized.
If your equipment also supports floor printing, you can extend your on-site printing service from walls to floors and offer floor printing as a separate service.
Floor printing can be used in retail spaces, showrooms, gyms, event areas, and other locations that need customized floor graphics.
Projects may include branded graphics, decorative designs, or other visual elements created specifically for the space.
For your business, this means on-site printing is no longer limited to wall projects. Floor printing becomes another type of project that can be quoted and sold separately.
Not every wall printer supports floor printing.
For example, the Friankor MK02 is a wall and floor printer machine. It can automatically switch between wall printing and floor printing modes in approximately 60 seconds, without requiring the operator to manually reposition the main machine structure during the conversion.
Conclusion: Create more revenue streams with one wall printer
A wall printer does not have to generate revenue only from wall mural projects.
Depending on the machine configuration and the materials you work with, you can extend the business into customized decorative products, customer-supplied material printing, project partnerships, and floor printing.
The right direction depends on the customers you want to serve and the types of projects you plan to take on.
If you are considering buying a wall printer, tell Friankor what kind of business you want to build. We can help you determine which machine and configuration are more suitable for your intended applications.
Contact Friankor and tell us how you plan to use your wall printer.
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