Transform Your Print Business with Wsc Printer

Traditional methods of print quoting require back-and-forth communication via multiple emails, which involves a lot of manual effort and results in customer dissatisfaction. Automation-focused software for print cost estimating and quote approvals can solve this issue and provide accurate pricing within a few minutes, ensuring a collaborative approach to precise results.

Print quoting software offers a range of key features, including quote generation, version tracking of estimates, mobile accessibility, reporting to track profitability, client management tools and many more.

By automating your quoting process, you can save time, reduce errors, and focus on growing your business. Let’s explore how Wsc Printer can empower your print operations.

What Is Print Estimating Software?

Print estimating software calculates the cost of print projects based on factors like materials, dimensions, and quantities. It automates manual quoting, ensuring fast and accurate results while reducing customer dissatisfaction. Finding the best production route and material usage through advanced impositions is essential to estimating the correct cost and specifying an accurate quotation to the customer. Whether you operate in commercial print, packaging, label, or digital print, you will find an easy yet sophisticated tool to specify all operations, from pre-planning to finishing and delivery. Wsc Printer provides a powerful tool for creating various options based on the original calculations. You can create enhanced price lists with a few keystrokes based on the original quotation. The system ensures you get the calculations as accurate as possible by using your best practice methodology for driving your business.

Benefits of Wsc Printer Software

• Estimators can access other estimates, yet markup percentages and prices can be secured individually.
• Users can set and adjust precision fields to fine-tune the accuracy of estimates over time. This includes all costs, prices, components, labour, and machine hours.
• Search for an estimate by number, name, and item number.
• Attach notes to each estimate header, operation, material, quote header, or revision.
• Price an unlimited number of quantity breaks.
• Find the breaking point between offset and digital manufacturing.

According to industry reports, the market for quote management software is expected to reach $7.6 billion by 2032, showcasing the growing demand for automation tools like Wsc Printer.

The functionality of the Print Estimating System

The Wsc Printer print estimating system streamlines the quoting process, offering advanced functionality to improve efficiency, accuracy, and profitability. Here's how it works:

• Detailed Cost Breakdown: View an estimated summary screen that provides a complete cost breakdown for each item and calculates up to four quantities in one go.
• Flexible Modifications: Estimates can be easily adjusted by modifying item specifications to optimise margins and gross profit, ensuring maximum financial control.
• Multi-Item Quoting: Generate quotes for multiple items, whether standalone or include sub-items, making complex projects simple to manage.
• Effortless Duplication: Estimate similar print items with a quick copy feature, saving time and ensuring consistency across quotes.
• Cross-Customer Copying: Seamlessly copy print estimates for the same or different customers without starting from scratch, significantly reducing manual effort.
• Track Estimate Progress: Assign individual statuses to print estimates, enabling efficient progress tracking and organisation.
• Integrated Customer Communication: Create PDF estimates and quote templates directly within the system and email them to customers instantly for seamless communication.
• Streamlined Production Workflow: Convert successful print estimates into jobs in production while archiving unsuccessful estimates for future reference, ensuring nothing is forgotten.
• Customisable Reporting: Build tailored print estimate reports and save them for future use, giving you valuable insights into your business operations.

With Wsc Printer, your print business will experience enhanced accuracy, better client management, and an optimised workflow—all while saving time and improving profitability.

Types of Print Estimating Software

Wsc Printer offers tailored solutions to meet the unique requirements of print businesses, whether you are a small printing shop or a large-scale company. Our software options cater to a wide range of print needs:

• Commercial Printing: Designed for businesses handling high-volume print jobs, offering precise cost breakdowns for materials, labour, and overheads.
• 3D Printing: Specialized tools for calculating costs associated with material usage, post-processing, and time-intensive designs. This ensures accurate and transparent pricing for complex projects, allowing businesses to cater to the growing demand for custom 3D-printed products.
• Label and Packaging: This software accommodates complex variables, including multi-layer substrates, speciality inks, and coatings, and is tailored to the specific demands of label and packaging production. It provides comprehensive tools to optimise material usage, reduce waste, and streamline the pricing process for small—and large-scale production runs.
• Packaging: The software accurately estimates costs for packaging projects, from rigid boxes to flexible pouches. It considers intricate factors like structural design, material combinations, and finishing requirements to provide precise pricing for custom packaging solutions.
• Roll Label: Ideal for businesses producing roll labels, the software calculates pricing based on roll width, adhesive type, die-cut shapes, and print run size. It ensures quick and reliable quotes, helping you stay competitive in the fast-paced label industry.
• Gravure: This feature supports gravure printing, which is known for its high-quality results on large print runs. It factors in cylinder engraving costs, ink consumption, substrate type, and setup expenses, enabling precise estimates for premium-quality projects.
• Flexography: Flexographic printing businesses can use tools considering variables such as plate creation costs, ink type, and substrate thickness. The software is designed to efficiently handle flexible packaging, corrugated boxes, and other flexo projects.
• Offset: The software accounts for plate-making, press setup, run length, and material costs for offset printing. It ensures accurate quotes for high-volume jobs and incorporates options for custom ink and finishing preferences.
• Digital: Digital printing businesses benefit from tools that provide quick quotes for short-run projects, personalisation, and variable data printing. The software supports seamless integration with web-to-print platforms, enabling real-time pricing and order management.
• Large Format: This module is optimised for businesses producing banners, signage, and oversized prints. It calculates costs based on material size, ink type, lamination options, and installation requirements, ensuring precise estimates for large-scale projects.
• Screen-Print: The software, tailored for screen-printing businesses, factors in stencil creation, ink usage, and substrate type. It handles single-colour and multi-colour projects and provides accurate pricing for apparel, signage, and promotional products.
• Mail and Assembly: This feature simplifies cost estimation for direct mail and assembly services. It accounts for variables such as folding, inserting, labelling, and postage, ensuring pricing transparency and project management efficiency.
• Web-to-Print: Integrated web-to-print capabilities allow customers to get instant quotes, place orders, and track progress online. The software supports dynamic pricing for custom designs and print specifications, enhancing customer convenience and satisfaction.
• Finishing: The software accurately calculates finishing costs from lamination and varnishing to embossing and die-cutting. It enables businesses to offer various finishing options without compromising profitability.
• Book Binding: Specialized tools for estimating book binding costs, including stitching, perfect binding, and case binding. The software considers page count, cover materials, and binding type to deliver precise quotes for small and large publishing projects.

With Wsc Printer’s advanced print software, you can streamline operations across all these industries, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and profitability for every project.

Best Practices for Implementation

To fully harness the potential of Wsc Printer’s advanced estimating software, follow these best practices:

1. Train Your Team: Invest in hands-on training to ensure your team is well-versed in using the software’s features and functionalities. Provide ongoing support and access to learning resources for seamless adoption.
2. Standardise Workflows: Establish consistent procedures for using the software to maintain accuracy and efficiency across all quoting and estimating activities.
3. Leverage Updates: Regularly update the software to stay ahead with the latest technological advancements and enhanced capabilities, ensuring optimal performance and security.
4. Incorporate Feedback: Encourage team members and clients to share feedback on the software’s performance. Use these insights to refine processes and maximise the benefits of automation.

Replacing outdated manual methods with Wsc Printer’s cutting-edge estimating solutions will save time, increase accuracy, enhance client relationships, and drive profitability.

Why Choose Wsc Printer?

• Generate error-free quotes from email in less time.
• Optimise budgets with dynamic pricing and financial tracking.
• Gain an edge in the competitive print industry with automated workflows.



Schedule a demo today and experience how Wsc Printer can transform your business operations. Let us help you stay ahead of the curve and achieve long-term success!