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The new Flatbed Digital Printing plugin for EstiMate represents a great leap forward in pricing technology, not just for flatbed printing, but for EstiMate overall.  We’ve really put our all into this one and if you have a flatbed printer, and are using EstiMate, it’s an absolute no brainer to get this plugin.  If you’re not using EstiMate, this just may be the reason you should grab a trial and get started.

This plugin has many powerful pricing features, as you can see in the following screenshots.

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The new Sandblasted Signs Pricing Plugin is one that I’m really excited to release, from my old-school perspective.  This has been long asked for and many people will find it to be the perfect complement to the Vinyl and Painted signs plugin as far as pricing dimensional blasted signs.

Quick and Easy Pricing Of Sandblasted Signs

You’ll find this plugin to be extremely easy to use even though it has a lot of behind-the-scenes pricing math going on.

First, you do the usual, selecting your blasting substrate (cedar, redwood, SignFoam)… and enter quantity, # of sides, width and height.  That’s when it gets interesting.

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Great news! Two new hotly requested plug-ins for EstiMate are right around the corner. We’ve developed plug-ins for flatbed digital printing and for sandblasted signs that are just about ready to go.   From the get-go, we have wanted to cover as many areas as possible in the sign business, and EstiMate 2 really lets us deliver.  These plugins should be available for purchase by October 1. 
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Are you concerned about the economy? Is business slowing down? A recession is a scary time for all businesses, and often it is hard to see the forest for the trees when making business decisions in a difficult economic climate.

At a time like this, it’s absolutely critical to be working with the best tools you possibly can to squeeze every ounce of profit out of each job that comes your way. Estimate 2 offers you extremely powerful features that allow you to identify the type of work you do that’s most profitable, and focus on that in your marketing.

You see, here’s a secret: when you do less of your low profit work and more of your high profit work, you make more money effortlessly and automatically. Estimate 2 gives you the tools you need to identify this type of work and give it your full attention.

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