Test cut
See the time before you quote it.
Run the floor
Your machines, set up in minutes
Start from 128 built-in profiles for wide-format printers, cutting tables and sheetfed presses, add die-cutters, folder-gluers and laminators, then tune speeds, makeready and rates. The same profiles time your quotes and your layouts — and rates start at zero, so no price is ever guessed.
From Shop
Today, and with AutomatePrint
Today
With AutomatePrint
Today: Speeds live in someone's head.
With AutomatePrint: Published specs to start, marked as estimated until you calibrate them.
Today: Each tool wants its own machine list.
With AutomatePrint: One list for quotes and layouts.
Today: Some tools charge per device.
With AutomatePrint: Every machine is free.
In numbers
- printers
- 51
- cutting tables
- 57
- sheetfed presses
- 20
- finishing presets
- 15
How it works
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Pick a preset
Search the built-in profiles, or add a machine by hand.
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Set it up as it really is
Sheet sizes, units, speeds, makeready and your own hourly cost and rate. Rates start at zero.
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Calibrate
Time a real job and let the suggested factor bring the estimates in line.
Presses as they really are
Units, perfecting, coaters, cold foil and special stations, makeready per plate and wash-up per ink — used by offset plans and quotes.
- Where perfecting starts
Finishing machines
Die-cutters with stripping and blanking, folder-gluers, flexo folder-gluers, window patchers, laminators and folders, each with its own speeds and setup. A folder-gluer lists the glue styles it runs, and a box it can't glue can't be quoted on it.
Tools & dies that know the boxes they cut
Keep the dies, plates and blocks you own in Tools & dies. Each die knows the single-up it cuts, so a quote for the same box finds it without anyone typing its number. One rate card per tool type prices a new one — with re-rule and wear, lead time and rush — and the quote weighs it against the die on hand, all-in.
- Exact matches are used; near matches are suggested and used only once you confirm them
- A die for the same style and size is suggested, never used by itself
- Rotary dies for rotary die-cutters, flatbed dies otherwise
- Add dies from their CF2, DXF or PDF die file, or with Save as tool from a quote
- Prices a new die in a quote
Calibrate from a timed job
Time a real cut and the cutter's efficiency factor is suggested for you.
What's in it
- Printers, cutting tables, sheetfed presses, guillotines
- Finishing machines and Tools & dies
- Dies matched to boxes: exact, near, same style and size
- Perfecting, coaters and special stations
- Rates start at zero
- Test print, test cut, test estimate
- Never billed per machine
- Equipment API
Specs
- Built-in profiles
- 51 printers · 57 cutting tables · 20 sheetfed presses
- Finishing presets
- 15
- Speeds
- Published specs, marked as estimated until you calibrate them
- Die matching
- Exact (used) · Near (used once confirmed) · Same box style and size (suggested)
- Rates
- Start at zero: no price is ever filled in for you
Works with
- Quoting Quick quotes, takeoff and box quotes priced from your own machines.
- Cut files Print PDFs plus Thru-cut PDF, DXF and CF2 cut files from the same layout.
- Imposition & offset N-up, true shape and strips on sheets and rolls, with offset plans for your press.
Read the docs: Equipment overviewPresses: sheetfed offset and digitalFinishing machinesTools and diesMatching jobs to dies
On which plan
Compare every plan| Capability | Free | Shop | Production | Plant |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Printer, cutter and press profiles (128), never billed per machine | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Finishing machines and Tools & dies with rate cards | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
No per-printer, per-cutter, per-press or per-machine fees.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Anything else? Email hello@automateprint.com and a person who knows print will answer.
Is equipment billed?
Never. Add every machine you run.
My machine isn't listed?
Add it by hand, or start from the closest preset and change it.
Where do the speeds come from?
Published specs, marked as estimated until you calibrate them.
Are prices included?
No. Rates start at zero — we never guess your prices.
Will quotes find the dies I already have?
Yes, once a die knows its single-up: import its die file, or use Save as tool when you order it. An exact match is used; a near match only after you confirm it for that box.
Put every job on one platform
Start free, with 14 days of every Production feature. No card, and your customers review for free.