Dear Fellow Professionals: In today's fast-moving business environment, all of us need every tool and aid available in order to cope with the ever-increasing demands of customers. And this pace of change and technological demands is much greater in the print industry then ever before. We are proud to offer you PrintScore, a state-of-the-art Print Estimating and Management software program, especially designed for small and medium-sized printers and copy shops. PrintScore will become an indispensable tool in creating immediate, accurate and customized quotations; retaining and recalling customer information as well as detailed quotation and job details; keeping track of all financial information on jobs, customer accounts and counter sales. To be successful in this age, printers must continue to focus on the needs of their customers. Competition will remain fierce and plentiful, while technology will continue to advance at an unbelievable pace. Most such technology comes at a steep price. Success, however, will not be guaranteed by just investing in the new technology but also using it effectively to fulfill customer needs. The Printing Industry is facing new challenges every day. Technology has become an issue that will continue to increase in importance. Printers are also going to be faced with the increasing use of the internet, e-commerce, just-in-time delivery and tighter production demands. Estimating and management software solutions have become even more important; and are now an essential tool in rapidly responding to customer needs and in helping tomorrow's printers become more profitable and competitive. You have two principal resources in your company - equipment and people. Make both more effective by utilizing the best possible financial, customer information and workflow management tool available. PrintScore is an extremely cost-effective process management software that performs job estimating, delivers informative management, marketing, financial and scheduling reports; and reduces or eliminates the paper trail chase, thereby reducing redundancy of effort and allowing people to be more productive. PrintScore includes the following full modules: Quotation Worksheet. Featuring a complete worksheet, including 'Hot Buttons' for recalling customer details, job histories, specifications and details on previous quotations and orders, itemized entries and calculations for copying [black and white, color, engineering, full color posters], pre-press work, recall and addition of detailed paper types and prices, display and selection of press and finishing equipment with time and price calculations 'on the fly', as well as the ability to customize mark-ups on each component of the quotation. Wash-up charges, plate types and pricing, trap registration surcharges, flat-rate entries or per-minute calculations for pre-press - every variable has been taken into account and accommodated within the Worksheet. And all with ease and speed of operation! The breakdown of each part of the quotation can be viewed and [if necessary] adjusted by the user prior to printing the quotation or faxing it directly to the customer from PrintScore. Customer Database... through which every significant job, quotation, invoice and other information pertaining to each customer and their orders can be retained indefinitely for immediate recall and re-use. Products and Services Database.....for immediate reference and look-up of information on product specifications, products and services pricing, and the transfer of required data to quotation worksheets or the point-of-sale system. Point of Sale System....functions not just as a sophisticated cash register, but enables the look-up of products and services pricing, the compilation of multiple sale items on a single receipt, maintains individual charge accounts for credit customers, prepares and prints monthly charge account statements. Supplier Database....enables the retention and recall of product and pricing information from multiple suppliers; competitive pricing can be evaluated immediately; orders for supplies can be placed with confidence; purchase histories maintained by type of product as well as quantum of business with each supplier. Defaults and Price-lists.... for your store products and services, maintained both within the software as well as printed out for use at the front counter and in the field Accounting.... accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank accounts reconciliation, petty cash, general expenses, with the ability to allocate all entries to an appropriate Chart of Accounts which is included with PrintScore. Reports....of every type which you may require, including reports related to Marketing, Production, Management, Finance. PrintScore can create up to 34 different reports for you, according to time periods specified by you. Backup.... of Data created within PrintScore; and the ability to Restore this Data through access buttons and commands provided on the program's Home Page. Help Menu.....comprehensive, organized logically and accessible by Topics or through Alphabetical Index. Also includes a 'Take a Tour' program familiarization module. Personalization....of your business information and the creation of Quotations, Invoices, Statements, Job Tickets and a variety of Reports and other documentation with all relevant business information and your business logo. Logo loading....and retention through re-sizing and simple uploading. Copy Shop features....with automatic calculations of number of copies when basic original x copy data entered, price transfers, mark-ups, equipment selection and clicks reports; for Black and White Copies, Full Color Copies, Engineering Copies and Color Posters Password protection....through secure Administration module, permitting variable levels of access to program to each designated User Bank reconciliation....seamless back-end reconciliation's from the information which is routinely entered for other tasks Equipment Usage Reports....as well as other related reports for enhanced productivity and the planning of equipment and facilities upgrades. Other....features such as the ability to define profit percentage markups for each stage of the production process; or on the overall sum of these costs; and to change or fine-tune these markups in the case of 'special' customers.