Print Estimating Software About

The founder of Legacy Software owned an advertising company in the 1980s Long before getting involved in print estimating software. Using desktop publishing before it was an accepted term, the company designed ads for small, and medium businesses, and at least one fortune 500 company. Some of the businesses were impressed with the ads and asked that other media be designed for them. Reluctantly, at first, this was done. Volume increased to the point where it was feasible to add a printing press to the operation. By the mid to late 80s, other print shops were starting to add desktop capabilities to their own operations. Legacy personnel were in a position to lend training assistance to those companies.

Legacy would become authorized by a computer company to be a dealer for desktop publishing computers to the printing industry. In 1993, the computer dealership was sold so that full time could be devoted to printing quoting software .Legacy has been involved with the printing industry print estimating software for over 25 years.

About SmartQuotes® Print Quoting - Estimating Software Print Quoting Software

Instead of calling our products the easiest to use, we prove it! An entire simple or complex estimate can be completed without typing more than the desired quantity. No other print estimating developer can make that claim. Our unique Booklet Maker prepares a matrix with a line entry for every signature with total control of colors for each signature.Each customer can have their own quoting markup or discount level. Apply a discount or markup to any print quote and SmartQuotes always remembers that client.

After doing the estimate, anything can be overridden with a manual entry if desired. The stock run, prepress and bindery services can all have their own fixed pricing or markup and are fully editable item by item .Built in reports are point and click. Standard items such as this week, last week, last month, etc. automatically find the proper time periods for the report.

Point and click, that's it.

Unique features allow for calculating true operating expenses. Actual costs for print estimating are then automatically calculated if the user elects to enter start and stop times. Fill in the blanks once and SmartQuotes remembers. Don't trust anyone to guess at our costs because your business is to important to you, your family and your employees to leave that to chance. SmartQuotes print quoting software allows you to manage your business.

After all, if you don't manage your own business, who will?

If past pricing is determined to have been successful for you, simply enter those prices for various quantities and SmartQuotes will do the math that follows that criteria in all cases of similar press runs for future print quoting.Each area has a 2 Gigabytes limit for stock, presses, customers, etc. That means that there is no practical limit. Pricing can be by unit, cost/markup, sliding scale, or an hourly price. Hourly charges can slide up, down, or a combination of the two. SmartQuotes is totally universal and automatic.

Stocks, presses, customers, or prepress and bindery services can be added on the fly in any print quote. They can be recalled at anytime, or deleted, edited, or enhanced. Though many print shops owners tell the people at Legacy that they do things differently, it would be hard to imagine what SmartQuotes could not handle with ease. When a feature is requested, we act on it immediately.

Timely Upgrades:
We don't wait a year or two for the next version to be released.We invite you to tour the pages of our print quoting software presented in our home page, and then download a demo for either Mac or Windows. Both programs are identical in features and appearance. Once you download, call us to schedule a free phone tour. You'll be glad you did.

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