Transform Your Printing Business: Start Simple and Scale with Ease

February 9, 2025

In the fast-paced world of printing, businesses need tools that help them operate more efficiently, reduce errors, and provide an excellent customer experience. Manual pricing, complex workflows, and long email exchanges are no longer the best ways to run a printing business. Enter PriceCal—a powerful pricing tool designed specifically for printing businesses that want to automate their pricing, streamline their processes, and deliver instant quotes to their customers.

Whether you’re just starting or ready to scale, PriceCal offers solutions that grow with your business.

Start Simple with PriceCal Lite

For printing businesses that want to start small and grow, PriceCal Lite is the perfect entry point. With PriceCal Lite, you can automate the pricing of your printing products, such as business cards, flyers, booklets, and packaging boxes, with ease. No technical setup or complex integrations are needed. It’s designed to be simple and user-friendly, allowing you to set up pricing rules and start serving customers almost immediately.

The real value lies in Printalogue, PriceCal’s built-in online catalog. With Printalogue, you can showcase your products and provide instant pricing to your customers—all via a simple, sharable URL. You don’t need new equipment, custom domains, or complex tech to get started. Just send your customers the link to your Printalogue, and they can access your catalog on any device, anywhere.

How PriceCal Lite Streamlines Your Workflow

Imagine this: A customer needs 200 custom packaging boxes. They click on your Printalogue link, choose their box type, select the material, adjust the quantity, and instantly receive the price. If they have any questions, they can send you an inquiry via WhatsApp. You get notified, respond quickly, and close the sale—all without ever needing to manually calculate the price.

This streamlined workflow not only saves you time, but it also provides your customers with a faster, smoother experience. With PriceCal Lite, you can eliminate the bottlenecks of traditional pricing methods and serve your customers more efficiently.

Upgrade to PriceCal Elite for Full eCommerce Integration

Once your business gains momentum with PriceCal Lite, it’s time to take the next step. As your customer base grows, so does your need for a comprehensive online store. This is where PriceCal Elite comes in.

PriceCal Elite offers everything that Lite provides, but with powerful additional features that enable you to take your printing business fully online. One of the biggest upgrades is the ability to integrate with WordPress and WooCommerce—two of the most popular platforms for building eCommerce websites.

With PriceCal Elite, you can turn your Printalogue catalog into a fully customizable online store where customers can browse your full range of printing products, receive real-time pricing, and place orders directly on your website. No need for complex third-party integrations—PriceCal Elite allows you to seamlessly integrate your product catalog into your WordPress site.

Elite Features: Maximize Your Potential

  • Up to 2,000 products: Manage an extensive catalog with ease, including all your printing and packaging products.
  • Custom branding: Remove PriceCal branding and customize your store’s look and feel with a custom color scheme, domain, and social media meta.
  • Pacdora Design Studio: Let customers create and customize their own designs for packaging, flyers, business cards, and more.
  • PDF invoices and order sharing: Automatically generate professional invoices and easily share orders with your team or customers.
  • Custom WhatsApp integration: Automatically send order updates or customer communications via WhatsApp, offering a more personal experience.

Conclusion: Start Small, Scale Big

PriceCal Lite provides the perfect starting point for printing businesses looking to automate their pricing and offer instant quotes to customers. It’s an easy, no-risk way to begin improving your workflow and customer experience. But as your business grows, PriceCal Elite opens up a world of opportunities to take your business online, manage thousands of products, and create a fully customizable storefront that fits your brand.

By starting with PriceCal Lite, automating your pricing, and upgrading to PriceCal Elite as your business expands, you’ll have the flexibility and scalability to meet your customers’ needs and take your printing business to the next level.

Get started today with PriceCal Lite—and when you’re ready, unlock the full potential of your business with PriceCal Elite.

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API

SC-Sheet calculates printing costs by determining the number of large sheets required based on material, size, printing method, and quantity.

For example, if a customer orders 1,000 business cards (89mm x 54mm), SC-Sheet calculates how many fit on a standard sheet, the total sheets needed, and the printing cost. Additional finishing like lamination or diecut is factored in separately, ensuring precise pricing while optimizing material usage and profitability.

What products are best suited for API?

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SC-Sheet

SC-Sheet calculates printing costs by determining the number of large sheets required based on material, size, printing method, and quantity.

For example, if a customer orders 1,000 business cards (89mm x 54mm), SC-Sheet calculates how many fit on a standard sheet, the total sheets needed, and the printing cost. Additional finishing like lamination or diecut is factored in separately, ensuring precise pricing while optimizing material usage and profitability.

What products are best suited for SC-Sheet?

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CSV

CSV is the most flexible way to manage and price products with fixed options or variations that don’t require dynamic calculations. Ideal for products with pre-set combinations of attributes like size, material, finish, and quantity, CSV enables
printers to create custom pricing tables in Excel (CSV format). Once the table is computed, simply upload it into PriceCal, and our Price Calculator will convert it into a systematic selection, generating the price based on the chosen options.

For instance, when calculating the price for a roll-up standee, printers can set up variables like type (e.g., Standard, Deluxe), size (Small, Medium, Large), print method (Digital, Offset), and quantity (e.g., 1, 5, 10). These variables are then organized in a CSV file, and upon upload, the system will automatically generate the correct pricing based on the selected options.

What products are best suited for CSV?

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  • Banners (Size, Material, Print Method, Quantity)
  • Packaging Boxes (Type, Size, Printing Method, Finishing)
  • Signage (Material, Size, Print Method, Quantity)
  • Stationery (Size, Material, Print Method, Quantity)
  • Promotional Products (Type, Design, Print Location, Quantity)

SC-Packaging

SC-Packaging is designed to handle pricing for packaging products such as boxes and cartons by calculating costs based on material, size, and finishing components. Through our strategic partnership with Pacdora, printers gain access
to a wide variety of box models, including double tuck boxes, auto-lock boxes, mailer boxes, and more.

This tool works similarly to SC-Sheet by calculating the open size of the selected box model and using the input dimensions to determine material usage, printing costs, and additional finishing. Components like gluing, die-cutting, and assembly costs can be seamlessly factored into the pricing

For example, if a customer orders 2,000 auto-lock boxes measuring 200mm x 150mm x 100mm, SC-Packaging will generate the total material required based on the box’s flat layout, calculate the printing and die-cutting costs, and include any finishing or assembly charges.

Exciting Benefits from Our Pacdora Partnership

Thanks to this collaboration, printers can now:

✅ Retrieve dielines instantly upon customer order.

✅ Offer customers access to Pacdora’s design studio to create and edit packaging
artwork effortlessly.

What products are best suited for SC-Packaging?

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SC-Item

SC-Item is designed for pricing single-item print customization, making it ideal for products like apparel, drinkware, and promotional merchandise. Unlike other pricing tools, SC-Item allows for flexible order quantities across different variations, such as sizes, colors, and print locations.

For example, in t-shirt printing, customers can choose to print on the front, back, or sleeves and place an order with specific quantity breakdowns—20 Large, 10 Small, 15 Medium, etc. SC-Item calculates the cost based on the print locations, total quantity, and any additional customization options like embroidery, heat transfer, or DTF printing.

What products are best suited for SC-Item?

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SC-Booklet

SC-Booklet is designed to generate precise pricing for multi-page products like booklets, catalogs, and magazines by calculating the material cost, printing method, and binding requirements. It determines the number of sheets required to fulfill an order based on the total number of pages, paper type, and sheet size. Additionally, SC-Booklet supports various binding methods, including saddle stitching and perfect binding, ensuring flexibility in product customization.

For example, if a customer orders 500 copies of a 32-page booklet, SC-Booklet calculates the number of large sheets needed based on the imposition layout. If the inner pages are printed on 150gsm matte paper and the cover on 300gsm glossy
paper, it determines how many sheets of each material are required and factors in the printing and finishing costs accordingly. The system also accommodates add-ons like spot UV, lamination, and special finishes.

What products are best suited for SC-Booklet?

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  • Corporate brochures
  • Annual reports
  • Event programs
  • Product catalogs
  • Training manuals
  • Magazines
  • Cookbooks
  • Portfolios
  • School yearbooks
  • Art books

SC-Area

SC-Area calculates printing costs based on the total print area (sq ft). When a user enters the length and width of the final print, SC-Area determines the total printable area and generates the cost accordingly. It also factors in additional finishing based on the perimeter, making it ideal for products that require eyelets, frames, or poles.

For example, if a customer orders a banner measuring 10ft x 3ft, SC-Area will calculate the total print area (30 sq ft) and generate the cost. If finishing options like eyelets every 2ft or a poles are added, SC-Area factors in these costs based on the perimeter. This tool is perfect for large-format prints such as banners, buntings, billboards, and signage, ensuring accurate pricing and seamless cost calculation.

What products are best suited for SC-Area?

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  • Magnetic signs
  • Metal / Aluminum signs
  • Die-cut stickers (large format)
  • PVC boards (Forex board prints)
  • Corflute / Corrugated plastic signs
  • Canvas prints
  • Tension fabric displays
  • Construction site signage
  • Directional & wayfinding signs
  • Table covers & table runners
  • Street pole banners
  • Retail window clings
  • Estate agent boards
  • Event standees & cutouts
  • Door signs & nameplates

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