System for operating textile printing machines , with - a first textile printing machine and at least one second textile printing machine , which are provided in a first entity or a second entity, which are independent of each other, - wherein each textile printing machine is provided from the machine producer with a data-processing module , which is configured to detect data about the state, set-up and/or utilization of the textile printing machine, and to determine textile and printer ink on the textile printing machine , - wherein the data processing module can be unblocked on the request of a customer of the textile printing machine , - wherein the textile printing machines transmit the detected data and besides the determined data of textile and printer ink from an unblocked data processing module to a data center of the machine producer independently of entities and location by means of online-connection, - wherein the data center is configured to accept print jobs from third parties and, based on the transmitted data, to transmit at least one print job fitting the data to one of the at least two textile printing machines , so far as sufficient free print time is available on the respective textile printing machine . - at least for the first textile printing machine and the at least second textile printing machine , respectively, a control means , in particular a server are provided, which means is configured to make local print jobs available to one of the at least two textile printing machines . - wherein the communication of the respective data-processing module with the data center is broken based on the needs in order to use the local idle time of the textile printing machine . - a first textile printing machine and at least one second textile printing machine , which are provided in a first entity or a second entity, which are independent of each other, - wherein each textile printing machine is provided from the machine producer with a data-processing module , which is configured to detect data about the state, set-up and/or utilization of the textile printing machine, and to determine textile and printer ink on the textile printing machine , - wherein the data processing module can be unblocked on the request of a customer of the textile printing machine , - wherein the textile printing machines transmit the detected data and besides the determined data of textile and printer ink from an unblocked data processing module to a data center of the machine producer independently of entities and location by means of online-connection, - wherein the data center is configured to accept print jobs from third parties and, based on the transmitted data, to transmit at least one print job fitting the data to one of the at least two textile printing machines , so far as sufficient free print time is available on the respective textile printing machine . - at least for the first textile printing machine and the at least second textile printing machine , respectively, a control means , in particular a server are provided, which means is configured to make local print jobs available to one of the at least two textile printing machines . - wherein the communication of the respective data-processing module with the data center is broken based on the needs in order to use the local idle time of the textile printing machine . <EOS>