“DTF running cost is $3–5 per print versus DTG's $3–8 per print, so DTF is cheaper per unit.”

The $3-5 and $3-8 per-print figures appear verbatim only in Source 1, the Transfer Superstars cost table, which is self-published by a DTF transfer vendor and marked accurate 'as of October 2023' with no methodology, sample, or definition of what 'running cost' includes. The ranges overlap across most of their span, so they do not establish DTF as cheaper per unit, and the same table puts vinyl heat transfer at $1-3 and screen printing at $2-5, both below DTF. Source 2, the Impressions Magazine trade article, is the better authority on in-house DTF economics but gives no cost-per-print figure at all on the page as we read it, so it neither corroborates nor contradicts the numbers.