Print estimating software
Built on your machines, not on averages.
Offset and digital, costed with your real click charge, your paper, your press. The price comes out in seconds — not from a spreadsheet somebody built in 2013 that nobody dares touch.
Try it free for 30 daysNo card. Add your machines and cost a job on day one.
What it costs, and how deep it goes
Three cost models
Simple with consumables inside the click charge, Simple with toner bought separately, or full Precision. In toner and liquid-ink variants — pick the one that describes your actual contract.
Precision: consumable by consumable
Toner, drums, developer, fuser, belt, coronas, waste. On liquid ink: ink cans, blanket (BID), PIP, impression charge, mixing fee. Not one rounded "cost per page".
A4 / A3 click threshold
Most digital presses charge a double click above a certain size. You set where the line is and every costing applies it — this is exactly where money leaks quietly.
Offset the way it actually runs
Plates, sides, perfecting, varnish, make-ready and wear based on passes. The cost of the first thousand is not the cost of the tenth.
Your paper, not a price list
Cost per sheet comes from your own inventory. Merchant changes the price? You change it in one place and every costing from then on is right.
Finishing with its own margin
Lamination, folding, cutting, binding, foiling — every postpress machine with its own cost and its own margin.
Why the number comes out right
- Cost + profit = final. Always, everywhere, on every line — never "the larger of the two".
- Imposition decides how many sheets, and sheets decide the price. That is why it happens in the same tool, not in a second program that never talks to the first.
- You see cost and profit per line, not just the total. You know which job feeds you and which one eats you.
- Products hold pricing profiles: the same job produces the same price, whoever costs it.
- Agreed a price on the phone? Lock it and keep recosting underneath without disturbing it.
Estimating does not end at the number
The number is the middle of the job, not the end. From the same screen the quote goes out, reaches the customer with an approval button, becomes a job on the board once approved, and turns into an invoice without anyone retyping the amounts. Other estimating packages hand you the number and leave you there.
See what an MIS plus an imposition tool costsFrequently asked questions
Does it handle both offset and digital?
Yes, both, each with its own logic. Digital is costed on clicks and consumables, offset on plates, passes, make-ready and wear. The same shop — the same quote — can carry both.
Do I need to know my click cost before I start?
It helps, but it is not required on day one. If you have a dealer contract, the click charge is written in it and goes into one field. When you want more accuracy later, you move to the Precision model and break it down consumable by consumable — without rebuilding anything.
My press charges A4 and A3 differently. Is that covered?
Yes. You set the size above which the press counts a double click, and every costing applies it automatically. It is one of the commonest places a manual estimate loses money without anyone noticing.
Do I have to change my invoicing software?
No. PressCal connects to Elorus and sends the quote through so the document is raised there. If you do not use Elorus, you print a clean quote PDF for your bookkeeper.