PrintingPress Extreme 10 Software Overview
PrintingPress Extreme 10 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 ServicesNEW Our new version 10 software includes easy access to affordable print services! Two-sided digital printing paired with authentic foil, letterpress and thermography are built into the software. 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 ARTWORKNEW 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 foil or letterpress.

Full Support for OpenType Pro fontsNEW Includes full support for OpenType Pro fonts, including alternate glyphs, swash, ligatures, ornaments, contextual & stylistic alternates for text, monograms and envelope addresses.

FOIL & INK PALETTESNEW 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. STOCK FOIL & LETTERPRESS DIESNEW Avoid custom die charges by choosing one of our stock foil or letterpress designs to personalize for your own event. Have a generic foil or letterpress design you want to use frequently? Order a stock die template!

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 TrimNEW 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-LINED ENVELOPESNEW Choose affordable foil-lined envelopes blank or with return address or variable address printing. Custom printed liners are trimmed, inserted and adhered into the envelopes.

Foil or FULL-COLOR PRINTED NAPKINS Coasters and Treat Bags NEW We are partnered with the only facility with a patent to print full-color artwork onto white napkins, coasters and treat bags. We can also print foil-stamped designs onto a variety of different color napkins, coasters and treat bags.

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.

DIY PRINTABLE GIFTS NEW We have a new assortment of DIY printable gifts you can print yourself which are great for parties or last-minute gifts. Templates for tumblers, ornaments, can coolers and more are easily printed and then trimmed with scissors or a rotary cutter.

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.
		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.
Bulk Sort By Zip Code NEW 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 NEW Now you can easily copy and paste stationery from one project to another using the new Copy Stationery and Paste Stationery menu items.
		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 CHOICENEW 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.
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 NameNEW 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.

PrintingPress Extreme 10 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.

Personalized Gift Items
Now you can order an assortment of printed personalized gifts and upload the artwork to us directly from the software.

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.

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.

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 CodeNEW
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 StationeryNEW
Now you can easily copy and paste stationery from one project to another using the new Copy Stationery and Paste Stationery menu items.

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 CHOICENEW
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 ServicesNEW
Our new version 10 software includes easy access to affordable print services! Two-sided digital printing paired with authentic foil, letterpress and thermography are built into the software. Fast turnaround at multiple US print facilities and in-country printing at our facility in Canada. Read our press release for more information.

FOIL & INK PALETTESNEW
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.

STOCK FOIL & LETTERPRESS DIESNEW
Avoid custom die charges by choosing one of our stock foil or letterpress designs to personalize for your own event. Have a generic foil or letterpress design you want to use frequently? Order a stock die template!

Rounded Corners and TrimNEW
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-LINED ENVELOPESNEW
Choose affordable foil-lined envelopes blank or with return address or variable address printing. Custom printed liners are trimmed, inserted and adhered into the envelopes.

Foil or FULL-COLOR PRINTED NAPKINSNEW
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 CoastersNEW
Design in full color on white or in foil on white or black circle or rounded corner square reception coasters.

Foil or FULL-COLOR
Printed TREAT BAGSNEW
Design in full color or foil on white or kraft treat bags.

BOXED CARDS & GREETING CARDSNEW
Now you can create boxed notecards and individually sleeved greeting cards from your own designs for resale! No need to order a thousand and hold inventory, just print quantities of 25 when you need them.

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 Pro Extreme software or Print Services and we will respond promptly, typically within 1-2 business days.
2. Downloadable Updates
   When updates are available for bug fixes or new features, your PrintingPress Extreme software will download them automatically.
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.
1. Included
   1- and 2-sided full color digital printed cards, foil, letterpress and thermography print processes, foil-lined envelopes, printed envelopes, envelope liners, napkins, reception coasters and treat bags
2. Excluded
   Printed gifts.
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 10 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.