Quote page
A clean quote page with no costs on it.
Quote & design
Quotes built on real production time
Type a quick quote like a spreadsheet — sizes, quantities and stocks are understood as you type — or measure straight from the customer's drawing. Material, print, cut and finishing time come from the machines you run, and cartons and shipping boxes are priced the way a converter prices them.
From Shop
- Route picked from the stock
Today, and with AutomatePrint
Today
With AutomatePrint
Today: Quoting eats the owner's evenings.
With AutomatePrint: Type “500 4x6 4/4 14pt” and the line is priced.
Today: Boxes are priced from last year's job and a guess at the die.
With AutomatePrint: Cartons and shipping boxes are costed step by step on your machines, and the die is its own line: one you own or a new one, whichever costs less all-in.
Today: Customers email you measurements.
With AutomatePrint: A designer link lets them trace and submit parts themselves — your costs never leave the server.
In numbers
- built-in products to start from
- 15
- finishing presets
- 17
- quantities on a line
- +3
- beside the one the customer orders
- rows per CSV import
- 500
- with one undo
How it works
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Type it or measure it
Type a line the way you'd say it, paste rows from a spreadsheet, or set the scale on the customer's drawing and trace the parts.
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Priced from your shop
Material, print, cut and finishing time come from your stocks and machines. Ready to quote lists anything still missing.
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Send the quote
Share a clean quote page, or a designer link your customer fills in themselves.
Ready to quote — or tells you why not
It lists what's missing — stock prices, a press, equipment rates — with a one-click fix or Price by hand. Presets never carry prices.
Sheets and offset, priced by the plan
Parts on the same stock gang onto forms. Offset tries plans with plates and passes, and the route badge tells you when another route is cheaper.
Cartons and shipping boxes, priced like a converter
A box is a row in the quote: type 2.5x1.5x6, pick the style and board, and the blank is drawn to size. Cartons are costed on your press, die-cutter and folder-gluer; corrugated on a flexo folder-gluer or as blanks per 1,000 ft². A new die is priced from its rate card as a separate one-off line that quantity breaks never multiply.
- Worked example
- 10,000 reverse tuck end boxes, 2.5 × 1.5 × 6 in on 18pt SBS, offset 4/0 with aqueous: $1,634.36, plus the cutting die at $804.00 — with our docs' example rates. Your rates, your prices.
- Shipping boxes
- 1,000 shipping boxes, 12 × 10 × 8 in C flute, on a flexo folder-gluer: $658.92 ($106.91 per MSF).
- The die is its own line
- Ups from the dieline's own blank
- Drawn to size
A die on hand, or a new one — priced all-in
A die you already own sets the ups and costs nothing more to use; a new die can still win when it gangs more ups. Each box line weighs the two under its die policy, with a re-rule, wear or a stripping tool added when the job needs one, and tells your estimator what the other choice would cost. Customers see the die row, never your dies.
- Prefer a die on hand, cheapest all-in, a die you pick, or a new die only
- Exact matches from your tool library are used; a near match only once you confirm it
- Rush the new die from its rate card
- The die policy, per line
- A die on hand, priced all-in
- What the other die would cost (staff only)
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Designer links
Customers measure their own job; the server strips your costs from everything they receive.
What's in it
- Paste from a spreadsheet or import CSV
- Save as product
- Finishing priced per piece, sheet, area, length or job — or timed on a finishing machine
- Dies on hand weighed against a new die, all-in
- Set up carton quoting in one dialog
- Round up, minimum order, valid until
- Box rows from the Box designer
- Estimating API with one-call estimates
Specs
- Routes
- Roll · Sheets · Offset · Blanks · Custom price
- Box families
- Folding carton (offset or digital, die-cut or cutting table) · Corrugated (flexo folder-gluer, die-cutter, or board only; litho-laminated)
- Die policies
- Prefer a die on hand · Cheapest all-in (compare) · Use a standing die · New die only
- Quantities
- The ordered quantity plus up to 3 more on every line
- Import
- CSV, up to 500 rows, one undo
- Customer views
- Quote page; designer link (costs stripped on the server)
What we don't do
- Quotes print or share as a page. Invoicing, purchasing and e-signature stay in your accounting or MIS.
Works with
- Box designer Fold-checked dielines to any size, in 3D, as PDF, DXF or CF2.
- Equipment 128 printer, cutter and press profiles, finishing machines and dies — never billed.
- Nesting engine True shapes on sheets, rolls and beds, every layout verified.
Read the docs: Estimating overviewQuick quotes without a drawingCartons and boxes
On which plan
Compare every plan| Capability | Free | Shop | Production | Plant |
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| Quick quotes and takeoff with print and cut time; box rows as blanks | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Sheet and offset pricing with route compare | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Carton and corrugated quotes: dies, plates, die-cutters and folder-gluers | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Customer designer links | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Quick quotes, offset plans, carton and corrugated quotes and designer links from Shop.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Anything else? Email hello@automateprint.com and a person who knows print will answer.
Do the presets come with prices?
No. Presets carry sizes and specs, never prices; Ready to quote shows what to fill in, and any line can be priced by hand.
Can it quote cartons and corrugated boxes?
Yes. A box row is costed on your press, die-cutter and folder-gluer — or on a flexo folder-gluer for corrugated — with the die as a separate line. A one-time setup asks for the few rates each family needs.
Does it use the dies I already have?
Yes. Box lines check your tool library: an exact match is used, a near match only once you confirm it, and the line's die policy decides between a die on hand and a new die, all-in. Another customer's die is never listed.
Can customers see my costs through a designer link?
No. The server strips costs and rates from everything sent to a customer link.
Is the quote the same as production?
Yes. The browser and the server price a quote the same way, and the nest is the production nest.
Does it send invoices?
No. Keep your accounting or MIS for invoicing.
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