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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Monograms
Use the unique monogram tool to quickly create a custom monogram using any font, diagonal monograms, diamond & circle monograms & borders.

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.

Advanced Image Cropping
Advanced image cropping tools let you crop images while still seeing the entire image for reference.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Separate Zip Code Digits
Separate the digits of the zip code with a decorative character or an image. Available decorative characters include:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Personal Access Plan Details
Never worry about support expiring or pay for an upgrade again! The Personal Access Plan includes:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. New Designs and Artwork
   When new designs are available as sample projects including new artwork, your PrintingPress Extreme software will download them automatically.
4. 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.
5. 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.
1. Included
   Blank white and colored matte, metallic and textured card stocks and envelopes.
2. Excluded
   In-store printable gifts, natural cotton, two-sided photo and vellum stocks, pocket folders and pochettes, scalloped, envelope liners.
6. 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.