PrintingPress Pro Extreme Software Overview PrintingPress Pro Extreme empowers you to be creative with easy-to-use tools for designing sophisticated invitations. Save time by starting with a sample design, or create your own using exquisite pro fonts, creative type styles, stylish graphics, client photos, custom monograms, seamless patterns, and creative borders and backgrounds. The built-in addressing tools let you produce fully styled envelopes, labels and place cards with alternate fonts, OpenType Pro styles, meal choice graphics and more. Keep track of customer projects and addresses quickly and easily with built-in customer management tools. Read below for an overview or click here to view a complete list of features.
Stationery Layout
Design cards, envelopes, labels, programs and other stationery such as place cards with meal choices. Print two-sided envelopes in one pass through your printer.
Custom Stationery Design
Stationery design tools let you create your own custom borders, backgrounds and patterns for maximum creativity. Over 25 line types include loop, wave, ric rac, greek key & more.
Specialty Print Services
Our powerful software includes easy access to affordable print services! Two-sided, full-color, full-bleed digital printed cards with options like foil and die cut shapes, as well as napkins and coasters are built into the software with wholesale pricing. Fast turnaround at multiple US print facilities and in-country printing at our facility in Canada. Read our press release for more information.
ORDER AND UPLOAD ARTWORK
You can place orders for print services right from the software. The software will automatically upload the artwork in the correct format for printing, and creating dies when needed for custom foil designs.
Convert Print it For Me designs
to Print it Myself
Now with any of our modern new sample designs you can choose to print it yourself onto cut cards, have us print it for you, or print and trim it using the AccuCut professional die cutting system. Use the option in the New Project window to configure the sample design for the way you want to print it. Foil, thermography and letterpress options will be converted to printable graphics when you want to print those designs yourself
Preview Fonts You will love our new Preview Fonts window to quickly and easily preview the selected text displayed side by side in all the fonts in a font group. Scroll through and choose the one you like best and double-click to apply that font.
Filter Fonts
There are so many fonts available today, sifting through thousands of fonts organized into a single huge alphabetized list can be overwhelming. Our new filter allows you to control what fonts are shown in your font combo box. Choose from one of the built-in font filters or create your own custom font groups.
Organize your fonts
into custom groups
Now you can easily organize all your fonts into an unlimited number of custom font groups to make your design life so much easier! You can group your fonts by style, by frequency of use, or however you like!
Customize Font groups
You can add and remove fonts from custom font groups. While editing font groups, you can filter visible fonts or search by font name.
Full Support for
OpenType Pro fonts
Includes full support for OpenType Pro fonts, including alternate glyphs, swash, ligatures, ornaments, contextual & stylistic alternates for text, monograms and envelope addresses.
Updated Print Font Test Sheet
Print your custom font groups or any combination of fonts to show customers your assortment of related fonts using the new Print Font Test Sheet window. Save the test sheet as a PDF file for your website, or print it to the printer.
FOIL & INK PALETTES
Display foil, thermography and letterpress on screen as you work and include in your customer previews. Built-in smart color palettes automatically change all foil on a card to the same color when you make a change.
Layers Palette
The layers palette gives you easy access to select, edit, move up/down, hide, disable and group the various design elements on your stationery. This is particularly helpful with complex designs when it is difficult to click on overlapping elements.
Text Effects
Advanced text effects include outlined text, double outlined text, patterned text, drop shadow with adjustable color, reflected shadow, projected shadow, text on a curve & more.
Rounded Corners and Trim
Print Services include two-sided full-bleed digital printing with optional rounded corners and other trim shape options including gallery frame, ticket, and scallop.
Wedding, Return Address and
Business Logos
Now you can quickly create and personalize wedding, return address and business logos for your clients. Once you choose a logo you can easily scale to the size you need, and then ungroup to change the fonts and colors.
Save your own custom Logos
Create your own custom logo designs and save them so they appear in the Insert Logo window.
Foil or FULL-COLOR PRINTED NAPKINS
and Coasters
We are partnered with the only facility with a patent to print full-color artwork onto white napkins and coasters. We can also print foil-stamped designs onto a variety of different color napkins and coasters.
Powerful Image Tools
Powerful image tools include paint bucket to fill part of an image with a color or pattern. Eraser tool can make part of an image transparent. Flip, rotate, fade border, crop, recolor, align, distribute, group, layer or lock floating images.
Ruler Guides
with Snap to Edge and Center
Click in the rulers to add guides to help you align design elements on your stationery. Drag guides to any location on the ruler. Click a guide to remove it. The edges and centers of design elements snap to the guides when dragging, resizing and cropping.
Spelling and Text Tools
Type with confidence as spelling preview underlines misspelled words and offers right-click options to correct. Save time with recent fonts menu and copy/paste type style features.
Supercharged Envelope Addressing
Advanced addressing options let you customize the printed address. Specify alternate fonts for different elements of the address. Automatically modify the addresses to: spell house numbers one through ten, replace commas with a decorative character or image, separate the digits of the zip code with decorative characters or images, spell Street, Apartment, etc. and more.
Pin Image to Address
Pin images to the left, right, top or bottom if the address. The image will be positioned according to the size of the address so that it is moved down for longer addresses or up for shorter addresses.
Mirror Image Around Address
Mirror an image on the left/right or top/bottom of the address so that the image will be appropriately placed for any size address in the Mailing List.
EDIT ADDRESS ABBREVIATIONS
Now you can customize the abbreviations that are automatically spelled out when you choose the envelope addressing options to auto spell state names, directions, street, apartment, etc. giving you maximum flexibility. You can add or delete abbreviation/full name pairs as needed. And at any time you can easily revert back to the default settings.
Mailing List Checkboxes Now the software can help you keep track of which envelopes you have already printed with check boxes in the Mailing List. When you print envelopes it asks if all printed correctly and automatically checks the list as printed. If you import more names, they will be unchecked, and the Print window now includes an easy option to print just the unchecked names.
Guest List Checkboxes You can also keep track of which place cards you have already printed with check boxes in the Guest List with the same options to check if all printed correctly and to easily print just the unchecked guests.
Import with Address Verification
Address envelopes with advanced zip code validation, auto-complete from postal code, or import from Outlook®, Excel®, Word® or any CSV or text file with clean-up options.
Print Formatted Mailing Lists
Format printouts of mailing list, guest list and address book for clients. Specify font, type size, gridlines, columns, landscape or portrait, even add your company name or logo.
Find name in Print Preview
Easily find any name when previewing addressed envelopes, address labels, postcards or place cards. Click Find in Print Preview and either browse through the entire list the desired name, or type into the field at the top of the Find Name window. You can also continue where you left off!
Print Preview Navigation Buttons
We’ve added jump to beginning and jump to end buttons into Print Preview along with the new Find button to help you quickly navigate to save time.
Bulk Sort By Zip Code
Sorting the mailing list by address now sorts by zip code for easy use with printing envelopes in postal code order for bulk mailings.
Search, sort and filter when assigning projects to customers
If you have hundreds of customer folders our new dialog windows are now much easier to use! By request we have added features enabling you to sort by the most recently used customers in addition to alphabetically, and to type to search and filter the list to find the customer you need.
Enhanced Duplicate Project dialog
When duplicating a project it can be daunting to locate the customer you want to place the new copy of the project into. We added the same enhancements to the Duplicate Project dialog to make it easier to copy and assign &projects quickly.
Create Addressed Envelope PDF Proofs
If you are printing addressed envelopes for your client, you can now offer complete addressed envelope proofing services. PrintingPress Pro Extreme will create a PDF file that includes every name in the Mailing List exactly as it will be printed on each envelope. If the envelope is two-sided with the return address on the back of the envelope, PrintingPress Pro Extreme will create two PDF files. The first PDF file will show all the names and addresses in the Mailing List, and the second PDF file will include the back of the envelope, which will be the same for each address in the list.
TWO-PASS COLOR ON COLOR
Using your existing OKI C711WT white toner printer you can now print color on color with our automatic two-pass print option with auto-trapping. OKI NEON color palette and black light preview also included.
Supercharged Place cards
All of the fabulous supercharged addressing features such as multiple alternate fonts, pinning images, mirroring images, and PDF proofs are also available for place cards.
SECOND MEAL CHOICE
Now you can have two different meal choices on a single place card to accommodate couples. Each can have its own image. Works with importing and printing guest list.
Sample Designs
Includes professionally-designed sample projects, templates, graphics and fonts to get you started. New seasonal project designs are delivered to your Newsletter Projects folder throughout the year.
Create gorgeous framed photos with
personalized photo mats
Our new Photo Mats stationery type lets you design and print personalized photo mats with the photos in one pass for standard 8x10, 10x20 and 11x14” photo frames. You can be creative and design with different mat aperture shapes as well as multi-photo mats. The software automatically prints the mat with a bevel so it looks 3-D when inserted into the frame as is with no mat cutting needed.
Auto-create Seating Charts by table
Now you can create a new seating chart and it will automatically populate with names and table numbers from the guest list! Adjust the text style for the headings and guest names, adjust the number of columns, and the software automatically lays out the names and tables in columns for gorgeous seating charts.
Auto-Create Seating Charts by Name
Choose the Organize Alphabetically seating chart option and the list will be sorted by last name. The software automatically adjusts the lengths of the columns of names for the most aesthetically pleasing layout. Use column connectors to add dots, lines, dashes, or squares between the name and table number to make it easy for guests to read.
ACCUCUT PINNOVATION TEMPLATES
We have the latest AccuCut Pinnovation templates built in and perpetually updated with the PRO or VIP Access Plan.
Relocate data folder
Now you no longer need to keep the PrintingPress Extreme Data folder in the Documents folder, you can locate it wherever you like on your computer or an external hard disk drive, as long as it is a drive local to your computer and always connected. This helps avoid issues with services like OneDrive that sync your Documents folder but sometimes get disconnected causing your data to appear to go missing.
Partnered with top brands
PrintingPress Pro Extreme partners with top brands to give you the best options for in-store design, personalization, printing and die cutting. Click here to learn more.
PrintingPress Pro Extreme 11 Software Tour
PrintingPress Pro Extreme works with any stationery, any PC, any printer (both inkjet and laser), any font, any graphic, any digital photo. You can easily match layout for flat cards, folded cards, envelopes, postcards, business cards, multiple place card sheets & labels. Create unique Mailing Lists for each project so you can print individually-addressed envelopes without difficult mail merges. Use the Print to Graphics File feature to create printed panels for Invitation Architect. Read on or click on a heading to learn more about:
Customer Folders
PrintingPress Pro Extreme lets you organize all of your projects into customer folders. You can create sub folders for organizing customers and customer projects. The Find Customer feature helps you locate customer folders.
Project Tracking
The software tracks project status, cost and billing with reporting by customer, employee or month. Pro Extreme automatically records time spent on job and number of prints. Create multiple employee logins with different levels of access privileges to manage your staff.
Tabbed Project Browsing
Open multiple projects at once and use tabbed browsing to switch between open projects. Backup multiple projects at once and schedule automatic backups. Search for project templates, images, patterns, borders and backgrounds by name
Convert Print it For Me designs
to Print it Myself
Now with any of our modern new sample designs you can choose to print it yourself onto cut cards, have us print it for you, or print and trim it using the AccuCut professional die cutting system. Use the option in the New Project window to configure the sample design for the way you want to print it. Foil, thermography and letterpress options will be converted to printable graphics when you want to print those designs yourself
Search, sort and filter when assigning projects to customers
If you have hundreds of customer folders our new dialog windows are now much easier to use! By request we have added features enabling you to sort by the most recently used customers in addition to alphabetically, and to type to search and filter the list to find the customer you need.
Enhanced Duplicate Project dialog
When duplicating a project it can be daunting to locate the customer you want to place the new copy of the project into. We added the same enhancements to the Duplicate Project dialog to make it easier to copy and assign &projects quickly.
Enhanced Copy Stationery to Project We’ve uplifted our Copy Stationery to Project dialog to make it easier to work with hundreds or thousands of customers and projects. Sort by recent or alphabetically, and easily exclude projects you have archived. New check boxes make it easy to select the stationery you want to copy.
Emailing Proofs
Easily send graphical proofs and mailing lists to customers. Customize the default text for email proofs to quickly send a proof out for approval.
Relocate data folder
Now you no longer need to keep the PrintingPress Extreme Data folder in the Documents folder, you can locate it wherever you like on your computer or an external hard disk drive, as long as it is a drive local to your computer and always connected. This helps avoid issues with services like OneDrive that sync your Documents folder but sometimes get disconnected causing your data to appear to go missing.
Layout
Configure Stationery Layout
The Stationery Wizard provides total control over creating and configuring cards, envelopes & other types of stationery for easy editing and printing. The Stationery Wizard allows you to specify the type of stationery, the exact dimensions of the stationery, fold location, margins, ribbon hole placement (if desired) and the number of cards per page (for printing 2 or 4 cards on a sheet and trimming afterwards). Specify details for envelopes, address labels, postcards, overlay pages, programs and table place cards.
Centimeters & European Sizes
Our international customers are dancing in the streets because our software now supports centimeters and European A sizes in the rulers and all measurements other than those that use points.
Floating Images
Float images, text boxes and monograms above or below the main text area of a card. Drag floating images anywhere on the stationery.
Layers Palette
The layers palette gives you easy access to select, edit, move up/down, hide, disable and group the various design elements on your stationery. This is particularly helpful with complex designs when it is difficult to click on overlapping elements.
Aligning Floating Objects
Align floating images relative to each other or to the edges of your stationery. Align floating objects so that they are contiguous from edge to edge. Distribute floating images evenly across the stationery horizontally or vertically. Group multiple floating objects to treat them like a single object. Lock objects so that they cannot be moved or changed. Disable or hide floating images to select text in the main text area.
Rulers
Rulers with Snap-to-grid option make it easy to position items. As you drag floating objects on a piece of stationery, the edges of the object will be indicated by red guide lines on the ruler.
Ruler Guides
with Snap to Edge and Center
Click in the rulers to add guides to help you align design elements on your stationery. Drag guides to any location on the ruler. Click a guide to remove it. The edges and centers of design elements snap to the guides when dragging, resizing and cropping.
Overprint Margins
Add overprint margin on stationery for printing with bleed and trimming after you print or printing beyond the edge of a label for full bleed.
AccuCut Pinnovation™ Stationery Dies
AccuCut stationery type allows you to quickly and easily layout designs for use with AccuCut Pinnovation™ Stationery Dies. Trim Zone shows the area where the die will cut and allows you to accurately place your design.
ACCUCUT PINNOVATION TEMPLATES
We have the latest AccuCut Pinnovation templates built in and perpetually updated with the PRO or VIP Access Plan.
Create gorgeous framed photos with
personalized photo mats
Our new Photo Mats stationery type lets you design and print personalized photo mats with the photos in one pass for standard 8x10, 10x20 and 11x14” photo frames. You can be creative and design with different mat aperture shapes as well as multi-photo mats. The software automatically prints the mat with a bevel so it looks 3-D when inserted into the frame as is with no mat cutting needed.
AccuCut Address Labels
& Place Cards
Every AccuCut template can now be modified to allow it to be used as one- or two-sided address labels or place cards. Go straight to the AccuCut stationery type instead of creating a place card like before.
AccuCut Template Search
With so many AccuCut Pinnovation die templates to choose from, we added an easy way to search for the die you want by typing in the list window when creating your stationery. We even added handy preview images to help make sure you choose the right one.
Custom AccuCut Die Templates
We now offer a new service where you can order software templates for your custom AccuCut Pinnovation dies that you purchase from Custom Shape Pros.
Envelopments® Stationery Sizes
Envelopments® stationery type allows you to quickly design and layout printable pieces from the Envelopments stationery line.
Crane & Co. Stationery Sizes
The Crane & Co. stationery type has the unique Crane stationery sizes preset in the software to make it easy to quickly customize Crane stationery.
Text
Stationery Editor
The full-featured stationery editor includes zoom, accented characters, superscripts, fractions and a built-in spell-checker. Type directly into the main text area of the card or add floating text boxes and drag anywhere on the card. Paste text, monograms & borders designed in PrintingPress into other programs.
Text Palettes
Tool palettes enable easy modification of text and images directly on the card. Use any font that you have on your computer and fill the text in any color or pattern. Stretch text horizontally or vertically, even stretch justify. Adjust the skew and baseline position for full control. Adjust individual lines left, right, up & down, adjust character and line spacing, character kerning.
Recent Fonts Menu
The Recent Fonts menu keeps track of the 10 most recently used fonts to make it easy for you to quickly select fonts among the ones that you are using for the current design.
Enhanced Font Menu Shows All Styles
Type lovers rejoice! Now you can use all 50 or so different versions of Helvetica because the new font menu makes all those condensed, thin, black and ultra-heavy styles available, along with the font’s own bold and italic styles when available.
Preview Fonts You will love our new Preview Fonts window to quickly and easily preview the selected text displayed side by side in all the fonts in a font group. Scroll through and choose the one you like best and double-click to apply that font.
Filter Fonts
There are so many fonts available today, sifting through thousands of fonts organized into a single huge alphabetized list can be overwhelming. Our new filter allows you to control what fonts are shown in your font combo box. Choose from one of the built-in font filters or create your own custom font groups.
Organize your fonts
into custom groups
Now you can easily organize all your fonts into an unlimited number of custom font groups to make your design life so much easier! You can group your fonts by style, by frequency of use, or however you like!
Customize Font groups
You can add and remove fonts from custom font groups. While editing font groups, you can filter visible fonts or search by font name.
Full support for
OpenType Pro fonts
Pro Extreme includes full support for OpenType Pro fonts including alternate glyphs, swash, ligatures and ornaments on Windows 7 and Vista. Select a character to see all of the alternate glyphs that are available for that character in the newly updated Special Characters palette. Unique controls allow you to automatically apply OpenType stylistic alternates exclusively to capital letters, numbers or the last letter of each word to any text including envelope addresses. New OpenType alternate glyph options for monograms allow you to choose alternate glyphs for the left, middle and right initials.
OpenType Glyph Palette
View every available glyph in a font using the new Glyph Palette window. You can show all characters or filter to just show letters and numbers, capital letters, lowercase letters, numbers or ornaments.
Updated Print Font Test Sheet
Print your custom font groups or any combination of fonts to show customers your assortment of related fonts using the new Print Font Test Sheet window. Save the test sheet as a PDF file for your website, or print it to the printer.
IDENTIFY MISSING FONTS
If you import a sample project that uses fonts that you do not have installed on your computer, you will see a list of all the missing fonts for each piece of stationery. Click to copy the list of missing font names to make it easy to locate and download or purchase the fonts.
Advanced Text Styles
Type styles include patterned text, outlined text, embossing, engraving, point-size justification, inner glow, outer glow, drop shadow, and more. Text outline styles include double outline, offset outline, dashed outline and dotted outline. Adjustable text outline spacing adds white between the text and the outline or adjusts the spacing between dots or dashes. Text shadow styles including drop shadow, reflected shadow, projected shadow, offset shadow, solid shadow and double shadow. Controls to let you set the color for the text shadow.
Text Case Styles
Set the text case for any text including addresses on envelopes and address labels. Text case styles include uppercase with lowercase vowels, uppercase with italic lowercase vowels and lowercase with italic vowels.
Floating Text Boxes
Add multi-styled floating text boxes that can rotate text or automatically typeset fully justified text. Bend text in floating text boxes into shapes such as arc, double arc, bend, double bend, wave, circle, semi-circle, double semi-circle, quarter-circle, spiral, vertical line and random jitter. Controls allow you to control the precise size and starting point of text in a circle, semicircle, spiral and arc and the height and duration of waves and bends.
Scale Text Box
When resizing a text box, now you can choose to have the text inside scale instead of keeping the font size. This is great for resizing logos and reusing the same text design elements on different size cards so everything stays in the same ratio without having to adjust multiple font sizes for different text boxes.
Text Columns
Add columns to the main text area or floating text boxes. Connect columns with separators such as dots, line, dash. Sample templates for ceremony programs and table seating charts.
Monograms
Use the unique monogram tool to quickly create a custom monogram using any font, diagonal monograms, diamond & circle monograms & borders.
Built-In Spell Checker
Check spelling for all text on a card at once, including floating text boxes. With the Show Spelling Preview feature enabled, misspelled words are underlined with a red squiggle to indicate the error. Right-click on the misspelled word to see suggestions to correct the error, ignore the word, or add the word to your custom dictionary.
Justify Words Paragraph Style
The Justify paragraph style in PrintingPress evenly spaces all letters on a line, which is perfect for invitations. The new Justify Words paragraph style justifies only the spaces between the words.
Images
Adding Images
Add photos and graphics to any stationery. Embed the image directly in the main text area where it will obey text alignment rules or float the image above or below the main text area and drag it anywhere on the card. Supported graphics file types are JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EMF, BMP, WMF and PDF.
Import PDF Files
Import multi-page PDF files containing text or vector graphics and choose which page to add as an image. Text on the imported PDF page content cannot be edited, but can be resized or recolored like other images.
Built-In Image Libraries
Includes thousands of high resolution, professionally-designed images, borders, backgrounds and seamless patterns.
Adjusting Images
Flip, rotate, resize, fade border, crop, recolor, adjust brightness and saturation, adjust transparency, convert to grayscale, blur or add a border. Make all white in the image transparent. Restore to the original image at any time to remove all modifications.
Advanced Image Cropping
Advanced image cropping tools let you crop images while still seeing the entire image for reference.
Convert Image to Background
Use buttons in the toolbar to copy a floating image and then apply it to the stationery background.
Colorize
Use the Colorize tool to replace all of the color in an image with another color. This is ideal for silhouette images and works best when the original image is black.
Monochrome Colorize
When colorizing an image you can now choose to have it convert to a monochrome image the exact color you choose, even if the original image had gradients and a variety of different colors.
Selective Color
Fill with Pattern
Use the Selective Color tool to fill just part of an image with any color or pattern.
Eraser Tool
Use the Eraser tool available within the Selective Color tool to erase just part of an image. This is helpful with black and white images where you want part of the image to be transparent white and other parts to remain opaque.
Add Drop Shadows to Images
Choose from a variety of drop shadows to images on your stationery, including reflected and projected shadows in addition to standard, heavy, solid and double drop shadows.
Convert to Outlines
Convert any full-color BMP, EMF, GIF, PNG, TIFF or WMF image with a black outline to a black and white outline of the image for coloring book or silhouette motif results.
Downsample Image
If you're working with one or more large images and are only using the image at a small percentage of the original size, you can choose to downsample the image to improve performance and reduce memory requirements for printing.
Sort Images by Color
When you click on the Insert Image button, you can use the Right-click menu option to sort images in the Choose Image window by color instead of by name. This will group all aqua images together, all blue images together, and so on. This is especially useful when browsing larger folders in our Professional Illustrations collection.
Borders and Backgrounds
Custom Borders and Backgrounds
Add custom borders and backgrounds to any image, text box, shape or monogram. Fill the custom border or background with any color or pattern. Also fill custom borders with shapes or images. Over 100 border shapes, including elegant, waves, geometric, notched & ticket, QuicKutz™ shapes and AccuCut® shapes.
Border Line Types
Choose from 31 different line types including dotted, scalloped, bumps, loop, wave, ric rac, double line, circle, dash, greek key and more. Alternate color allows two colors per line for certain line types for custom borders.
Graphical Borders and Backgrounds
Add graphical border images to any image, text box, shape, monogram or stationery. Add a photo or graphical background image to any stationery.
Faded Border
Fade the edge of any photo or image into the background of the stationery.
Move Border to Front or Back
By default, the stationery border is behind all of the design elements on the stationery except for the stationery background. New option lets you move the stationery border to the top layer so that it is drawn on top of other design elements on the stationery including the main text area and floating images and text boxes.
Repeated Text and Monograms
Add repeated text to the background of any stationery or shape.
Copy and Paste Borders and Backgrounds
Use buttons in the toolbar to copy borders and backgrounds from various design and paste onto other elements. For example, copy a stationery border and paste it onto a floating text box.
Shapes
Adding Shapes
Use the Shape tool to quickly and easily add a decorative shape to any stationery. Choose from the same list of shapes that is used for borders and backgrounds. Specify the fill color or pattern, details for a frame around the shape and details for an outline and inner pen for the shape.
Logos
Wedding, Return Address and
Business Logos
Now you can quickly create and personalize wedding, return address and business logos for your clients. Once you choose a logo you can easily scale to the size you need, and then ungroup to change the fonts and colors.
Save your own custom Logos
Create your own custom logo designs and save them so they appear in the Insert Logo window.
Patterns
Using Patterns
Fill any shape, border, background, monogram or text with seamless patterns. Choose from one of the built-in patterns or use one of your own pattern image files. The Recent patterns menu stores the twenty most recently used patterns.
Create Custom Patterns
Use the Custom Pattern Creator to design your own pattern by repeating up to two shapes or images.
Adjusting Patterns
Use the controls in the Adjust palette to recolor, rotate, scale, and make white transparent for patterns.
Addressing
Address Lists
Each customer has their own unique address book to keep customer address lists separated. Address envelopes, inner envelopes, labels, postcards & place cards from the customer's names and addresses. Manually enter addresses or import from Outlook®, Excel®, Word®, Access® or any CSV or text file. Clean up addresses automatically, removes duplicates, extra spaces and blank lines, change from all-caps.
Address Envelopes
Advanced addressing options let you customize the printed address. Automatically modify the addresses to: spell house numbers one through ten, replace commas with a decorative character or image, separate the digits of the zip code with decorative characters or images, spell Street, Apartment, etc. and more.
Multiple Alternate Fonts
Specify alternate fonts for different elements of the address such as the label name, first or last name, title (Mr. and Mrs.), house number, street address, city, state, zip, capital letter, roman numerals and more.
Place Address Elements
on Their Own Line
Specify multiple address elements to be placed on their own line for maximum customization. Items that can be placed on their own line include: label name, first name(s), last name, title (Mr. and Mrs.), ampersand “&”, house number, street address, city, state and zip code.
Rotate Label Name within Address
Rotate just the label name within the address for an elegant, customized look. In the example to the left, the title (Mr. and Mrs.) has been put on its own line and aligned to the left. The label name uses an alternate font and has been rotated to the left. The rest of the address has been aligned to the right.
Bend Label Name
Bend the label name above the address. In the example to the left, the label name uses an alternate font and the Bend label name only setting has been enabled.
Replace Commas With Images
In addition to being able to automatically replace commas in the address with decorative characters (see next feature), now you can also replace commas with an image.
Separate Zip Code Digits
Separate the digits of the zip code with a decorative character or an image. Available decorative characters include:
| vertical bar
• bullet
— horizontal bar
- dash
~ tilde
* asterisk
: colon
:: double colon
+ plus
Pin Image to Address
Pin images to the left, right, top or bottom if the address. The image will be positioned according to the size of the address so that it is moved down for longer addresses or up for shorter addresses.
Mirror Image Around Address
Mirror an image on the left/right or top/bottom of the address so that the image will be appropriately placed for any size address in the Mailing List.
Enlarge House Number
to Span Full Address Height
Enlarge the house number so that it is as tall as both the street address and city/state/zip lines of the address. The city/state/zip text is moved to the right so that it does not overlap the house number.
EDIT ADDRESS ABBREVIATIONS
Now you can customize the abbreviations that are automatically spelled out when you choose the envelope addressing options to auto spell state names, directions, street, apartment, etc. giving you maximum flexibility. You can add or delete abbreviation/full name pairs as needed. And at any time you can easily revert back to the default settings.
Address Kerning Options
Advanced kerning options let you adjust the spacing between specific pairs of characters such as "ga". Alternatively, specify spacing adjustments to tighten or loosen the spacing around a certain character regardless of the surrounding characters.
Postal Code Verification
Verify the postal codes for addresses in the US, Canada and Australia. Verify a single address, selected addresses, or all addresses in the Address Book or Mailing List.
Postal Code Error Notification
Postal code errors are marked with a red exclamation point in the Address Book and Mailing List, and are underlined with a red squiggle in Print Preview. Right-click on the invalid address to choose from a list of suggestions or look up postal codes on postal service websites.
Print One-Pass Envelope to PDF
Whether you are printing to Envelopments or to Kinko’s, you can now produce a multi-page PDF file that is formatted “one pass” with the address and flap return address on a single side of the auto-sized print-ready file.
Auto Complete Address from Postal Code
Enter a postal code and then click a button to add the complete city, state, and postal code to an address.
Customized Postal Code Database
Add postal codes to your own custom database for future validation.
Mailing Lists
Each project has its own unique Mailing List using names and addresses from the customer's Address Book. This makes it easy to print envelopes for all 300 names for a wedding invitation and only 20 names for the rehearsal dinner.
Mailing List Checkboxes
Now the software can help you keep track of which envelopes you have already printed with check boxes in the Mailing List. When you print envelopes it asks if all printed correctly and automatically checks the list as printed. If you import more names, they will be unchecked, and the Print window now includes an easy option to print just the unchecked names.
Guest List Checkboxes
You can also keep track of which place cards you have already printed with check boxes in the Guest List with the same options to check if all printed correctly and to easily print just the unchecked guests.
Find name in Print Preview
Easily find any name when previewing addressed envelopes, address labels, post cards or place cards. Click Find in Print Preview and either browse through the entire Mailing List or Guest List to locate the desired name, or type into the field at the top of the Find Name window. You can also continue where you left off!
Print Preview Navigation Buttons
We’ve added jump to beginning and jump to end buttons into Print Preview along with the new Find Name button to help you quickly navigate to save time.
Printing Mailing Lists
Formatting options when printing the Mailing List, Guest List or Address Book let you add your logo or company name to the top of the page, specify which columns to print, specify the font and size, print with or without grid lines, and choose portrait or landscape format. The list is printed in the order in which it is currently sorted.
Print mailing List and Guest List to PDF
No one wants hard copy anymore, so go ahead and email that beautifully formatted mailing list or guest list as a multi-page PDF file.
Bulk Sort By Zip Code
Sorting the mailing list by address now sorts by zip code for easy use with printing envelopes in postal code order for bulk mailings.
Copy/Paste Stationery and Projects
You can easily copy and paste stationery from one project to another using the Copy Stationery and Paste Stationery menu items. You can also copy and paste projects from one customer to another using the Copy and Paste options in the Edit menu.
Create Addressed Envelope PDF Proofs
If you are printing addressed envelopes for your client, you can now offer complete addressed envelope proofing services. PrintingPress Pro Extreme will create a PDF file that includes every name in the Mailing List exactly as it will be printed on each envelope. If the envelope is two-sided with the return address on the back of the envelope, PrintingPress Pro Extreme will create two PDF files. The first PDF file will show all the names and addresses in the Mailing List, and the second PDF file will include the back of the envelope, which will be the same for each address in the list.
Print Preview Addresses
Print Preview addressed envelopes, inner envelopes, labels, postcards & place cards using customer address books. Make changes to fix errors and continue previewing.
Place Cards and Seating Charts
Print Table Place Cards
Import guest lists with table numbers directly from Excel or Word for easy place card printing. Display and print by table or by name. Quickly assign multiple guests and table numbers, store multiple mailing label names. Separate the guest name and table into separate text boxes on the outside of the place card for maximum design control.
Meal Choice Option for Guest List
Keep track of guests' meal choices and print them in a list organized by guest name or by table.
Meal Choice Option
Displayed on Place Cards
Display each guest's meal choice on the place card using text, an image, or both. Set the placement, size and color for the meal choice text. Use one of the new built-in meal choice options including stylish images in a wide color palette, or customize using your own text and images.
SECOND MEAL CHOICE
Now you can have two different meal choices on a single place card to accommodate couples. Each can have its own image. Works with importing and printing guest list.
Auto-create Seating Charts by table
Now you can create a new seating chart and it will automatically populate with names and table numbers from the guest list! Adjust the text style for the headings and guest names, adjust the number of columns, and the software automatically lays out the names and tables in columns for gorgeous seating charts.
Auto-Create Seating Charts by Name
Choose the Organize Alphabetically seating chart option and the list will be sorted by last name. The software automatically adjusts the lengths of the columns of names for the most aesthetically pleasing layout. Use column connectors to add dots, lines, dashes, or squares between the name and table number to make it easy for guests to read.
Print Services
Specialty Print Services
Our powerful software includes easy access to affordable print services! Two-sided full-color, digital printed cards with options like foil and die cut shapes, as well as napkins and coasters are built into the software with wholesale pricing. Read our press release for more information.
ORDER AND UPLOAD ARTWORK
You can place orders for print services right from the software. The software will automatically upload the artwork in the correct format for printing, and creating dies when needed for custom foil designs.
FOIL & INK PALETTES
Display foil, thermography and letterpress on screen as you work and include in your customer previews. Built-in smart color palettes automatically change all foil on a card to the same color when you make a change.
Rounded Corners
Print Services include two-sided full-bleed digital printing with optional rounded corners.
Foil or FULL-COLOR PRINTED NAPKINS
We are partnered with the only facility with a patent to print full-color artwork onto white napkins! We can also print foil-stamped designs onto a variety of different color napkins.
Foil or FULL-COLOR PRINTED Coasters
Design in full color on white or in foil on white or black circle or rounded corner square reception coasters.
Printing
One-Pass Envelope Printing
Print two-sided envelopes in one pass through your printer. Open the flap and place the bottom of the envelope into the printer's manual feed tray. The software automatically prints the address and the flipped return address in a single pass saving time and mangled envelopes.
Auto Set Paper Size and Manual Feed Tray
Tired of always having to click Properties in the Print window to set the paper size or select the manual feed tray when printing stationery? No longer necessary if you check the new options to auto-set the paper size and manual tray in the Print window.
TWO-PASS COLOR ON COLOR
Using your existing OKI C711WT white toner printer you can now print color on color with our automatic two-pass print option with auto-trapping. OKI NEON color palette and black light preview also included.
Print Partial Label Sheets
Print partial label sheets by specifying start row, start column and number of labels to print.
Print Offset
Adjust print offset for perfect print alignment customized to your printer.
Print to Graphics File
Use the Print to Graphics File feature to print any piece of stationery to a graphics file. Create a high resolution PDF or TIFF file to send out for third party printing. Create a low-resolution file for emailing proofs, publishing on a website, or using with Invitation Architect.
Print to PDF
Printing stationery directly to a PDF file enables artwork to easily be submitted to most third party print services. Printable PDF files can also be sent directly to clients for electronic delivery of client-printable invitations.
Updated Print Font Test Sheet
Print your custom font groups or any combination of fonts to show customers your assortment of related fonts using the updated Print Font Test Sheet window. Save the test sheet as a PDF file for your website, or print it to the printer.
Access Plans
New version 11 and higher purchases and upgrades come with 90 days of the PRO Access Plan.
Pro Access Plan
Never worry about support expiring or pay for an upgrade again! The PRO Access Plan includes:
Email Technical Support
You may submit inquiries regarding technical questions related to PrintingPress Pro Extreme software or Print Services and we will respond promptly, typically within 1-2 business days.
Downloadable Updates When updates are available for bug fixes or new features, your PrintingPress Pro Extreme software will download them automatically.
New Designs and Artwork When new designs are available as sample projects including new artwork and new AccuCut templates, your PrintingPress Pro Extreme software will download them automatically.
Future Upgrades When major upgrade versions become available, e.g. version 12, version 13, etc., you will receive them via mail or download for free as if you purchased them, providing you sign up for an access plan within 90 days of purchase of PrintingPress Pro Extreme version 11 or higher software or upgrade and then stay current with monthly or annual payments the entire time leading up to the release of each future upgrade.
VIP Access Plan
Save money on print services and get premium support access! The VIP Access Plan includes everything in the PRO Access Plan and adds:
20% Discount off Print Services You may place orders for Print Services at wholesale prices through PrintingPress Pro Extreme software and you will receive a coupon code giving you an additional 20% discount. Certain products are excluded, which may change from time to time without notice.
20% Discount off Blank Stationery You may place orders on Mountaincow.com for blank stationery at wholesale pricing and receive a coupon code giving you an additional 20% discount. Certain products are excluded, which may change from time to time without notice.
Included Blank white and colored matte, metallic and textured card stocks and envelopes.
Excluded Natural cotton, two-sided photo and vellum stocks, pocket folders and pochettes, scalloped, envelope liners.
No custom order fees
The custom order fee for non-standard items is waived if you need to request a quote and place an order for a size or stock that is not included in our standard Print Services product line.
Album Page Inserts Seasonally, typically 3 times per year, we will ship new album page inserts with printed samples using various print processes to add to Custom Printing albums when VIP plan customer has an album.
Phone Access to Priority Technical Support
You may submit urgent inquiries via email or phone during business hours M-F 9-5 ET regarding technical questions related to PrintingPress Pro Extreme software or Print Services and we will respond promptly, typically the same business day if the inquiry is submitted before 3pm ET.
Annual Training Session You may schedule 1 free 1-hour training session by phone each year you are current with the VIP access plan.
Remote Computer Logins You may encounter technical support inquiries that cannot be resolved by email or phone, in which cases our technical support team may request to schedule a time with you to log into your computer remotely for the purposes of investigating and possibly resolving the problem. Typically this is used to attempt to restore lost data (projects and addresses) and without the VIP plan the cost for this service is $200/hour.
Content Partners
Design and Print Templates
Includes built-in templates for designing and printing using artwork, colors, shapes, sizes, labels & printing by Envelopments and in-store die cutting by AccuCut. Select classic Envelopments® recipes and Crane & Co. boxed stationery templates are available along with samples of the type styling by those partners which may be applied to other products as desired.
Make Your Own Templates
Easily work with any stationery that includes preprinted designs. Add a non-printing background image from the manufacturer’s website or a scan to any card or envelope. The non-printing background will help you place your text and design elements while avoiding overlapping the existing design. An option in the Print to Graphics File window lets you include the background when creating a proof for emailing to clients so they see the background design along with your customization.
PrintingPress Pro Extreme 11 Content
Specialty Print Services
Our powerful software includes easy access to affordable print services! Two-sided full-color, digital printed cards with options like foil and die cut shapes, as well as napkins and coasters are built into the software with wholesale pricing. Read our press release for more information.
AccuCut Pinnovation™ Stationery Dies
Includes fully integrated support for the AccuCut GrandMARK cutting system and Pinnovation line of stationery dies for desktop die cutting, so you can easily layout your design in the right place before die cutting. The collection includes multi-up seals and business card dies, place card and escort card dies, even complicated dies for cupcake wrappers, wine bottle tags and favor boxes. You can add overprint, borders and backgrounds for full-bleed trimming, use any die as an address label or place card, and easily search and preview templates on screen to choose the right one. Now you can even purchase templates for your own custom AccuCut Pinnovation dies that you purchase from Custom Shape Pros.
Envelopments Templates
Includes built-in templates for designing and printing using Envelopments artwork, colors, shapes and sizes. All printable shapes and sizes are built in as stationery sizes. Updated ink colors,overprint guides and variable data file prep for submitting print jobs for printing by Envelopments. Paper colors built in for preview and proofing when printing in white with OKI color+white desktop printer. New label sheets include die lines, trim zones and border shapes with built in support for multi-up printing. 2008-2014 Envelopments® recipes with complete OpenType styling using alternate glyphs selected by Envelopments designers available for download to Envelopments dealers from Envelopments dealer access website.
Crane & Co. Stationery Sizes
Includes fully integrated support for the Crane & Co. line of bulk blank stock. All of Crane’s unique stationery sizes are built-in for quick setup of new blank projects, along with an assortment of printable Crane motifs you can use to add flair to envelopes and other Crane stationery you are personalizing. The Crane ink color palette is also built in to facilitate selection of relevant colors when styling type and colorizing motifs for use on Crane stationery.
Make Your Own Templates
Easily work with any stationery that includes preprinted designs. Add a non-printing background image from the manufacturer’s website or a scan to any card or envelope. The non-printing background will help you place your text and design elements while avoiding overlapping the existing design. An option in the Print to Graphics File window lets you include the background when creating a proof for emailing to clients so they see the background design along with your customization.
Seasonal Design Ideas
We create new seasonal designs throughout the year. The professionally-designed projects are automatically downloaded throughout the year for our Access Plan customers.
Original Fonts
PrintingPress Pro Extreme works with any font that you have on your computer. In addition, we include the following original fonts.
Sample Monogram Styles
The unique monogram tool allows you to quickly and easily create custom monograms using any font that you have on your computer. Below are sample built-in monogram styles including diamond and circle.
Sample Images
PrintingPress Pro Extreme works with any image, clip art, digital photo or scan that you have on your computer. In addition, the software includes collections of sophisticated images you can use in your designs, including our Fonts & Graphics collections, and all graphics from our newsletter gallery. Sample images are shown below. Additional images can be purchased in our Professional Illustrations collection.
Sample Borders
The software includes collections of pre-designed border graphics you can use in your designs, including our Fonts & Graphics collections, and all graphics from our newsletter gallery. Sample images are shown below. Additional images can be purchased in our Professional Illustrations collection, and tools in the software let you design your own custom borders.
Sample Backgrounds
The software includes collections of pre-designed background graphics you can use in your designs, including our Fonts & Graphics collections, and all graphics from our newsletter gallery. Sample background images are shown below. Additional images can be purchased in our Professional Illustrations collection, and tools in the software let you design your own custom backgrounds.
Sample Patterns
The software includes collections of seamless patterns images that you can use in your designs, including patterns from our newsletter gallery. Sample patterns are shown below. Additional patterns can be purchased in our Professional Illustrations collection, and tools in the software let you create your own custom patterns.
PrintingPress Pro Extreme software by Mountaincow has been reviewed and featured in many catalogs and trade magazines over the years. Click here to view all the press written about Mountaincow.
We have a great list of new Pro 11 features but it’s not complete so please email us feature requests! And keep your eye out for downloadable updates with new features throughout the coming months.
Preview Fonts You will love our new Preview Fonts window to quickly and easily preview the selected text displayed side by side in all the fonts in a font group. Scroll through and choose the one you like best and double-click to apply that font.
Filter Fonts
There are so many fonts available today, sifting through thousands of fonts organized into a single huge alphabetized list can be overwhelming. Our new filter allows you to control what fonts are shown in your font combo box. Choose from one of the built-in font filters or create your own custom font groups.
Organize your fonts into custom groups
Now you can easily organize all your fonts into an unlimited number of custom font groups to make your design life so much easier! You can group your fonts by style, by frequency of use, or however you like!
Customize Font groups
You can add and remove fonts from custom font groups. While editing font groups, you can filter visible fonts or search by font name.
IDENTIFY MISSING FONTS
If you import a sample project that uses fonts that you do not have installed on your computer, you will see a list of all the missing fonts for each piece of stationery. Click to copy the list of missing font names to make it easy to locate and download or purchase the fonts.
Updated Print Font Test Sheet
Print your custom font groups or any combination of fonts to show customers your assortment of related fonts using the new Print Font Test Sheet window. Save the test sheet as a PDF file for your website, or print it to the printer.
Convert Print it For Me Designs to Print it Myself
Now with any of our modern new sample designs you can choose to print it yourself onto cut cards, have us print it for you, or print and trim it using the AccuCut professional die cutting system. Use the option in the New Project window to configure the sample design for the way you want to print it. Foil, thermography and letterpress options will be converted to printable graphics when you want to print those designs yourself
Mailing List Checkboxes Now the software can help you keep track of which envelopes you have already printed with check boxes in the Mailing List. When you print envelopes it asks if all printed correctly and automatically checks the list as printed. If you import more names, they will be unchecked, and the Print window now includes an easy option to print just the unchecked names.
Guest List Checkboxes You can also keep track of which place cards you have already printed with check boxes in the Guest List with the same options to check if all printed correctly and to easily print just the unchecked guests.
Find name in Print Preview
Easily find any name when previewing addressed envelopes, address labels, postcards or place cards. Click Find in Print Preview and either browse through the entire list the desired name, or type into the field at the top of the Find Name window. You can also continue where you left off!
Print Preview Navigation Buttons
We’ve added jump to beginning and jump to end buttons into Print Preview along with the new Find button to help you quickly navigate to save time.
EDIT ADDRESS ABBREVIATIONS
Now you can customize the abbreviations that are automatically spelled out when you choose the envelope addressing options to auto spell state names, directions, street, apartment, etc. giving you maximum flexibility. You can add or delete abbreviation/full name pairs as needed. And at any time you can easily revert back to the default settings.
Create gorgeous framed photos with personalized photo mats
Our new Photo Mats stationery type lets you design and print personalized photo mats with the photos in one pass for standard 8x10, 10x20 and 11x14” photo frames. You can be creative and design with different mat aperture shapes as well as multi-photo mats. The software automatically prints the mat with a bevel so it looks 3-D when inserted into the frame as is with no mat cutting needed.
New Party Accessory templates
We’ve updated our party accessories with tons of new sample templates for personalized napkins, coasters and treat bags so you can design the perfect reception for your clients. We’ve also been making new sample invitations designs every week for years now and all of those are included in our Pro 11 update.
Search, sort and filter when assigning projects to customers
If you have hundreds of customer folders our new dialog windows are now much easier to use! By request we have added features enabling you to sort by the most recently used customers in addition to alphabetically, and to type to search and filter the list to find the customer you need.
Enhanced Duplicate Project dialog
When duplicating a project it can be daunting to locate the customer you want to place the new copy of the project into. We added the same enhancements to the Duplicate Project dialog to make it easier to copy and assign &projects quickly.
Enhanced Copy Stationery to Project We’ve uplifted our Copy Stationery to Project dialog to make it easier to work with hundreds or thousands of customers and projects. Sort by recent or alphabetically, and easily exclude projects you have archived. New check boxes make it easy to select the stationery you want to copy.
Relocate data folder
Now you no longer need to keep the PrintingPress Extreme Data folder in the Documents folder, you can locate it wherever you like on your computer or an external hard disk drive, as long as it is a drive local to your computer and always connected. This helps avoid issues with services like OneDrive that sync your Documents folder but sometimes get disconnected causing your data to appear to go missing.
WOW! Sounds wonderful, cannot wait how soon can I get it????!!!! Kathie, Georgia
Paint bucket selectively recolors part of an image
Eraser selectively makes part of an image transparent
Thumbnails for project and image browsing
Search for projects, images and customers
In-place text box editing using text palettes
Text box columns for easy ceremony programs
Customize default email text for graphical proofs
Enhanced support for PostScript fonts
Over 25 new custom border line types including loop, wave, ric rac, double line, circle and dash
Pro Access PlaN Details
Never worry about support expiring or pay for an upgrade again! The PRO Access Plan includes:
Email Technical Support
You may submit inquiries regarding technical questions related to PrintingPress Pro Extreme software or Print Services and we will respond promptly, typically within 1-2 business days.
Downloadable Updates & Installations When updates are available for bug fixes or new features, your PrintingPress Pro Extreme software will download them automatically. You can download what you need to install the software on a new computer.
New Designs and Artwork When new designs are available as sample projects including new artwork and new AccuCut templates, your PrintingPress Pro Extreme software will download them automatically.
Future Upgrades When major upgrade versions become available, e.g. version 12, version 13, etc., you will receive them via mail or download for free as if you purchased them, providing you sign up for an access plan within 90 days of purchase of PrintingPress Pro Extreme version 11 or higher software or upgrade and then stay current with monthly or annual payments the entire time leading up to the release of each future upgrade.
VIP Access Plan Details
Save money on print services and get premium support access! The VIP Access Plan includes everything in the PRO Access Plan and adds:
20% Discount off Print Services You may place orders for Print Services at wholesale prices through PrintingPress Pro Extreme software and you will receive a coupon code giving you an additional 20% discount. Certain products are excluded, which may change from time to time without notice.
20% Discount off Blank Stationery You may place orders on Mountaincow.com for blank stationery at wholesale pricing and receive a coupon code giving you an additional 20% discount. Certain products are excluded, which may change from time to time without notice.
Included Blank white and colored matte, metallic and textured card stocks and envelopes.
Excluded Natural cotton, two-sided photo and vellum stocks, pocket folders and pochettes, scalloped, envelope liners.
No custom order fees
The custom order fee for non-standard items is waived if you need to request a quote and place an order for a size or stock that is not included in our standard Print Services product line.
Phone Access to Priority Technical Support
You may submit urgent inquiries via email or phone during business hours M-F 9-5 ET regarding technical questions related to PrintingPress Pro Extreme software or Print Services and we will respond promptly, typically the same business day if the inquiry is submitted before 3pm ET.
Annual Training Session You may schedule 1 free 1-hour training session by phone each year you are current with the VIP access plan.
Remote Computer Logins You may encounter technical support inquiries that cannot be resolved by email or phone, in which cases our technical support team may request to schedule a time with you to log into your computer remotely for the purposes of investigating and possibly resolving the problem. Typically this is used to attempt to restore lost data (projects and addresses) and without the VIP plan the cost for this service is $200/hour.
PrintingPress Pro Extreme 11 Minimum System Requirements
OpenType Pro Fonts
Using alternate glyphs, swash, ornaments, ligatures and other features requires OpenType Pro fonts to be installed on your computer. You can purchase OpenType Pro fonts from font websites like fonts.com or myfonts.com. OpenType Pro fonts are not included with the software, but the Gabriola OpenType Pro font is included with Windows 7. OpenType Pro font features are not supported on Windows XP.
Address Verification
Our address verification database includes city, state and postal codes for the US, Canada and Australia. The software may recommend a different city than you are used to seeing for postal codes in your area. If you are unsure, the software makes it easy for you to check using the postal code website for each specific country. If you prefer to use an optional city name, you can add it to the database and the software will not ask you about that postal code again for that city.
New Businesses
PrintingPress Pro Extreme is the only version of our software licensed and supported for any type of printing for a fee. If you are starting a new business, this is the right software for you to use to get started. Only PrintingPress Pro Extreme includes the tools, content and features you need to print for clients. We have helped many people easily get started in the invitation printing business. Give us a call M-F 9-5 ET at 1 (800) 797-MCOW, x1 to see if you qualify for our new business assistance program.
Trial Versions
We do not offer a trial version of our software, but we do offer risk-free shopping with our 30 day return policy. You should feel comfortable ordering our software if you want to give it a try, knowing that you can return it within 30 days if you are not happy for any reason.
Technical Support
For the quickest resolution to technical support inquiries, please visit our searchable website support center where you can most likely find answers to frequently asked questions. In addition, PrintingPress Pro Extreme includes 90 days of the PRO Access Plan which includes email technical support. We offer technical support exclusively via email. We have found it to be the most effective way to provide clear, written instructions, send files back and forth, and maintain a record so an escalated inquiry will include all the relevant history.
Our technical support team includes members who founded the company and wrote the software, so most of the time we can resolve your questions quickly and accurately the first time without much back and forth. We typically respond to an initial inquiry within 1-2 business days, and VIP Access Plan customers can typically get responses the same business day when they submit their inquiries before 3pm ET.
New Designs
We post new designs every week on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Design Gallery that you can use when ordering Print Services for your clients. With a PRO or VIP Access Plan, the projects are automatically downloaded to your computer when the newsletter is published. Use them as is or customize them with your own fonts, images and colors. With a current PrintingPress Pro Extreme license you may post the designs to your website and offer them for sale knowing that you can purchase the paper from us to create any of the designs we publish.
Upgrades
From time to time we upgrade the software to include great new features to keep your business at the forefront of the print industry. Your version 11 software purchase or upgrade includes 90 days of upgrade protection with the PRO access plan. If an upgrade comes out within 90 days of your purchase date you will receive the upgrade at no additional charge. If you stay current with the PRO or VIP access plan you will receive all upgrades that come out at no additional charge. Without a current access plan, upgrades are typically priced at half the price of the initial software purchase if you are using the previous version, and 25% more if you are upgrading from an older version.
Stationery Discounts
We offer wholesale stationery pricing to our pro customers by entering your PrintingPress Pro Extreme serial number onto many of our stationery pages on our website. Discounts range up to 40% depending on the quantity of purchase and the specific product. With our VIP Access Plan you will receive an additional 20% off all blank stationery prices.
New Computer Recommendations
We recommend you browse the Dell small business website and look at the Vostro computers with approximate specs including Windows 10 64bit, 8GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive and 3.0 GHz CPU for around $500 to $800. You should be able to get something reasonably priced, especially if you look at their deals each week. If you need a new monitor we recommend one of their ultrasharp 19 or 21” LCD flat panels, or visit NewEgg and look for a HannsG or other discounted flat panel with good reviews showing 1920x1080 or 1920x1200.
Recommended Printers
PrintingPress Pro Extreme works with any printer that can print from Windows, but we do have certain printers we recommend for invitation printing if you are looking to purchase a new one. The most versatile printer we recommend is the Epson P400 color ink jet printer, which works great for all printing including thick cotton cards, small cards and envelopes, metallic stock and photo paper. We also recommend the OKI C612 and C844n upd color laser printers. The OKI does a great job with cards, envelopes and metallic stocks, offering faster printing at a lower cost per print compared to ink. We now also offer the new OKI C711WT digital color printer with White Toner from OKI Data Americas, available exclusively from Mountaincow. Combined with our latest PrintingPress Pro Extreme software, invitation designers can now offer affordable in-house printing of white text, motifs and addresses onto black, dark blue, brown and other dark stationery. You can find additional details on our website.