PrintingPress Extreme 11 Software Overview PrintingPress Extreme 11 empowers you to be creative with easy-to-use tools for designing sophisticated invitations that can be uploaded for printing with the click of a button. Save time by starting with a sample design, or create your own using exquisite fonts, creative type styles, stylish graphics, 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 projects and addresses quickly and easily. 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 new version 11 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. 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.
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.
FOIL & INK PALETTES
Display foil, letterpress & thermography ink on screen as you work and include in your 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.
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.
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.
Print Formatted Mailing Lists
Formatting options when printing the Mailing List, Guest List or Address Book let you 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.
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 downloaded to Access Plan subscribers 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.
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.
Upgrade Features
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.
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.
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.
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 version 11 update.
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.
PrintingPress Extreme 11 Software Tour
PrintingPress 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. Read on or click on a heading to learn more about:
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
PrintingPress 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.
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 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 and ticket 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.
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
Import your contact list into your Address Book to address envelopes, inner envelopes, labels, postcards & place cards from your names and addresses. Manually enter addresses or import from Outlook®, Excel® or any CSV file.
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.
Mailing Lists
Each project has its own unique Mailing List using names and addresses from your 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.
Printing Mailing Lists
Formatting options when printing the Mailing List, Guest List or Address Book let you 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.
Print Preview Addresses
Print Preview addressed envelopes, inner envelopes, labels, postcards & place cards. 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 tableNEW
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 new version 11 software includes easy access to affordable print services! Two-sided full-color, two-sided, full-bleed digital printed cards with options like foil and die cut shapes, as well as napkins and coasters are built into the software. 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, letterpress and thermography ink on screen as you work and include in your 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.
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.
Project Management
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
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.
Access Plans
New version 11 and higher purchases and upgrades come with 90 days of the PRO Access Plan.
PERSONAL Access Plan
Never worry about support expiring or pay for an upgrade again! The Personal Access Plan includes:
Email Technical Support
You may submit inquiries regarding technical questions related to PrintingPress 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 Extreme software will download them automatically.
New Designs and Artwork When new designs are available as sample projects including new artwork, your PrintingPress Extreme software will download them automatically.
Future Upgrades When major upgrade versions become available, e.g. version 11, version 12, 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 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.
PrintingPress Extreme 11 Content
Specialty Print Services
Our new version 11 software includes easy access to affordable print services! Two-sided digital printing available with optional hot foil stamping are built into the software. Read our press release for more information.
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 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 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.
Personal Access Plan Details
Never worry about support expiring or pay for an upgrade again! The Personal Access Plan includes:
Email Technical Support
You may submit inquiries regarding technical questions related to PrintingPress 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 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, your PrintingPress Extreme software will download them automatically.
20% Discount off Print Services You may place orders for Print Services at retail prices through PrintingPress 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 retail 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 In-store printable gifts, natural cotton, two-sided photo and vellum stocks, pocket folders and pochettes, scalloped, envelope liners.
Future Upgrades When major upgrade versions become available, e.g. version 11, version 12, 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 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.
PrintingPress 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.
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 Extreme includes 90 days of the Personal 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.
New Designs
We post new designs every week on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Design Gallery that you can use when ordering Print Services. With a Personal Access Plan, the projects are automatically downloaded to your computer when they are posted. Use them as is or customize them with your own fonts, images and colors.
Upgrades
From time to time we upgrade the software to include great new features to keep you up to date with the latest design and print options. Your version 11 software purchase or upgrade includes 90 days of upgrade protection with the Personal 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 Personal 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.