** Version 3.0 has been released! We have added many, customer-requested features. Some of the more significant features are described below:
Multiple Page Counts. Within a single Quote, you can enter an unlimited number of additional page counts (each with various paper stock and color configurations), which can be used in combination with multiple quantities, to generate multiple estimates. A complex pricing quote which used to take all day to generate can now be created in minutes! The reports generated from the multiple page counts and multiple quantities gives the customer a complete snapshot of the pricing for all requested scenarios. For Example: A customer requests a Quote for a 16, 24, or 32-page Tab with either Black Only or Spot Color on the additional pages, and wants prices for 10,000, 12,000, 15,000, 17,000 and 20,000 copies. The Presstimator will calculate each one of the configurations (including Markup) and provide the Multiple Pages pricing sheet along with the Customer Quote report. In this example, twenty-five estimates are quickly and easily generated, and all are stored within a single Quote!
Section Wizard. The Section Wizard allows you to quickly set up a multiple-section job. In prior versions, a multiple section job had to be created by adding each section of the job individually, specifying the section number, number of pages, collect vs. straight configuration, etc., for each. Now, by clicking on the Section Wizard and indicating the number of sections (and the collect vs. straight configuration), each section will be created automatically. You can also use the Section Wizard to easily modify all existing sections of a job from a single window.
Facilitated changing of paper stocks. The new Copy Paper Stock button allows you to copy some or all of the information from a specified paper stock (paper type, color, additional copies, web width, basis weight or grammage) to all stocks within the section or in the entire job. For Example: This makes it easier to change all the stocks within a multiple-section job from 28-lb. Newsprint to 30-lb. Newsprint from a single window. Instead of having to make the same modification to all paper stock entries individually, you can now modify a single entry and apply that change to all other entries.
Auto-numbering of Quotes and Invoices. You can provide a "Next Quote Number" and "Next Invoice Number" in Shop Settings. Within a Quote, you can import the Quote Number and/or Invoice Number into the Quote, and the number stored in Shop Settings will be incremented automatically for the next use.
Incorporate multiple
Presstimator estimates into a single Quote. The Presstimator enables
you to Import pricing information from existing Quotes from Quote History
directly into the Additional Printing portion of another Quote. For Example:
You can create one Quote for printing the Cover for a product, and create
another quote for the web-printing portion of the job. From within the Bindery
tab of the second Quote, you can select the Cover Quote from the Quote History
list, and the price for the Cover will automatically be imported to give
a complete quote which includes each portion of the printed job. Each product,
the Cover and web-printing portion of the job, can be marked up individually.
We have developed a What's New Tour of the more significant features of the Presstimator Version 3.0. The What's New Tour consists of only two files (Tour.exe and Demo.dbd) which need to be downloaded into a folder on your machine.
Version 3.0 - Download the following files (Tour.v30 and Demo.dbd), or download the zip file which contains both files:
Tour.v30- What's New Tour for version 3.0
To download, right-click on each of the links above and select 'Save Target As...'. Locate the folder on your computer where you would like to save the What's New Tour files. Select 'Save' and the 'Tour.v21' file will be downloaded into the designated folder. Repeat the same steps for the Demo.dbd file. Once the download of the files has completed, open Windows Explorer rename the 'Tour.v21' file which was just downloaded to 'Tour.exe'. Once the files are copied, run the Tour.exe file, and you can go through the What's New Tour at your own pace.
OR
To download, right-click on the link above and select 'Save Target As...'. Locate the folder on your computer where you would like to save the What's New Tour files. Select 'Save' and the 'Tour.zip' file will be downloaded into the designated folder. Once the download of the zip file has completed, run WinZip to extract the two files (Tour.exe and Demo.dbd) into a folder. Once the files are extracted, run the Tour.exe file, and you can go through the tutorial at your own pace.