● Estimating
Describe the product. PrintStack builds the plan.
Layout, tooling, setup, run speeds, and waste — derived from your equipment’s real capabilities. Then every machine that can run the job is priced, and the best route leads the quote.
Every capable machine priced · 41 HP Indigo models costed to the click · Quotes sent from your own inbox
The estimate is a manufacturing plan.
Built by the system, not by hand.
Speeds, waste standards, and tooling logic live in your configuration — so pricing is consistent across every estimator, and new hires are productive in days.
Spec-first estimating
From product description to manufacturing plan
Enter what the customer wants. PrintStack works out how to make it — on your equipment, at your speeds.
Automatic layout
Labels step-and-repeat across the web to maximize every inch of material. Sheet work imposes n-up onto the press sheet. Wide-format nests onto roll and flatbed by the square foot. You never do the geometry.
Every machine priced
One spec, every capable route costed side by side — digital against conventional, roll against sheet — with the best route leading the quote. Comparison is the default, not a feature.
Real speed curves
Your equipment is modeled with real manufacturer speed curves — HP Indigo, Heidelberg, Mark Andy, Durst, Zünd, and more — including the deepest HP Indigo library in any MIS: 41 models costed to the click.
Tooling that checks itself
Dies auto-match from your tooling library, print-cylinder availability is computed against what you own, and when something doesn’t fit, the estimate suggests the fix.
Bindery & finishing in the price
Folding, stitching, perfect binding, coating, laminate, and mounting route and price inside the same estimate — one flow from print through finishing, with nothing quoted separately.
Standards your floor audits
Setup time and waste come from standards by material and machine — and job costing feeds actuals back, so the standards get more accurate every month you run.
Versions & SKUs
12 SKUs. One item. One price.
One component with versions on the quote. Quantity per SKU on the order. Every version on its own packing-list line — all costed as a single run.
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Costed as one run
Shared setup, version-change costs, and quantity economics computed across all versions — one estimate for the whole run, not twelve.
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Version detail at every step
The order adds quantity per SKU and version specifics, and the packing list breaks out every SKU on its own line — while the job still costs as one run.
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Multi-item, multi-version quotes
Mix label, commercial, and wide-format components on one quote — each with its own specs, versions, and per-version pricing.
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The quote sends from your inbox
Branded quotes send through your own M365 or Google mailbox — they land in your Sent folder and replies come back to you. No no-reply robot.
Validated math, then AI
AI assists the estimate. It doesn’t invent it.
The estimating engine was back-tested against real closed estimates and locked with a test suite before AI was allowed to drive it. The sequencing is the credibility.
Back-tested against real jobs
The engine’s math was validated against real closed estimates from working shops before launch — and locked with a golden test suite so it stays right.
Quote Guidance on top
Margin outlier detection, price-band recommendations, and per-version cost checks before a quote ever leaves the shop — riding on validated math.
Your floor audits the standards
Estimate-vs-actual variance sits on every job as a question about standards — by material and machine, never by operator. Quotes get more accurate every month.
See your own products estimated live.
Bring three real jobs to a 30-minute demo — we’ll build the estimates in front of you, on your equipment list.