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We offer many different versions of our invitation software, both for home and professional use. Please use the chart below to see which version is right for you!

   
 
FEATURE

Project Management

       

NEW thumbnail views for projects and project templates.

Backup multiple projects at once.

View multiple open projects in tabs.

   

Schedule automatic backups.

   

NEW search for projects and project templates by name.

     

Track hours, count prints and edit project info.

     

Addressing

       

Manually enter addresses or import from Outlook®, Excel®, Access® or any CSV file.

Track RSVP, gifts and guests.

Export addresses to Excel or text file.

NEW print address list, mailing list and guest list in the order they are sorted.

Display and print guest list by table or by name.

Quickly assign multiple guests and table numbers, store multiple mailing label names.

Addressing options: alternate font for the formal name, auto spelling, zip code justified on its own line, auto superscripts & auto spelling of numbers & abbreviations.

   

Clean up addresses automatically, removes duplicates, extra spaces & blank lines, change from all-caps.

     

Import mailing lists separately for each customer project.

     

Import guest lists with table numbers directly from Excel or Word for easy place card printing.

     

Import addresses, mailing list or guest list from a Word® text file.

     

Stationery

       

Use any size card, envelope, folded card, overlay, program or place card.

Zoom stationery to view close up or see more on screen.

One or two folds, one or two sides, 1, 2 or 4 cards per sheet.

Customize margins for main text area.

Print ribbon hole markers.

Design custom StationeryStamps™ to coordinate with your invitations.

Duplicate stationery within a project.

Automatically create a matching envelope based on the card size

Templates for stationery by Masterpiece Studios, Great Papers!, Treasure Masters and Holiday Time brands.

Multi-up business cards, labels, address labels, place cards, postcards.

   

Stationery types for printing personalized gift wrap, banners, and AccuCut Pinnovation stationery dies.

   

Overprint margin for printing with bleed and trimming after you print.

   

Copy stationery from one project to another.

   

Envelopments® stationery sizes built in.

     

Rulers with snap-to-grid option.

     

Text

       

Multi-style main text area within margins.

Use any font, size and color for text.

Standard styles bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript.

Adjust character and line spacing.

Adjust paragraph alignment left, right, center, indent, space before and after.

Adjust vertical text alignment top, bottom, center.

Copy and Paste font styles.

Easily add accented characters and other special characters.

Sample color from images to make text color match.

Floating multi-style text boxes positioned anywhere on the stationery.

 

Edit text boxes in-place on the card or in text box dialog window.

 

Fully justified paragraph alignment and vertical text alignment.

 

Check spelling.

 

Advanced styles shadow, emboss, engrave, inner glow, outer glow, swash capital letter.

   

Auto adjust text case for small caps, lower case, upper case.

   

Advanced adjustments to horizontal and vertical character stretch, skew, baseline shift and transparency.

   

Advanced paragraph alignments stretch justified and point size justified.

   

Text columns with blank, dots, squares or dashes separators.

   

Text on a curve, bend, wave, circle, semi-circle, quarter-circle, spiral, vertical line and random jitter.

   

Outline text.

   

Fill text with a pattern.

   

Special characters grid shows glyphs from entire font for easy insertion.

   

Monograms

       

Create custom monograms using any font.

 

Includes special circle, diamond, and diamond with point styles.

 

Advanced font styles shadow, emboss, engrave, inner glow, outer glow, swash capital letter.

   

Outline text.

   

Fill text with a pattern.

   

Use a secondary, alternate font for the side letters.

   

Adjust layering of middle letter above or below side letters.

   

Advanced monogram alignment options for baseline, top, bottom or diagonal.

   

Images

       

Add photos to cards. Flip, rotate, fade border, crop, adjust brightness, make semi-transparent.

NEW thumbnail views for images, patterns, borders and backgrounds.

NEW search for images, patterns, borders and backgrounds by name.

Make images float over the text on the card.

Align floating objects, layer objects front/back and behind text.

 

Recolor, adjust HSB, blur.

 

Distribute floating objects, group, lock objects.

   

Colorize tool enables recoloring of black graphics.

   

Convert graphics to outlines for coloring book or silhouette motif.

   

NEW Selective Color feature allows you to recolor just part of an image.

   

NEW Eraser tool allows you to erase part of an image.

   

Borders & Backgrounds

       

Non-printing background images for imprintable stationery shows preprinted designs.

Add graphical borders and background images to stationery, photos and more.

 

Custom border tools let you draw your own rectangular and oval borders.

 

Over 80 border shapes, including elegant, waves, geometric, notched & ticket and AccuCut® shapes.

   

25 NEW line types including Dots, Scallops, Bumps, Loop, Wave, Ric Rac, Double Line, Circle, Dash, Greek Key and more.

   

Fill borders with colors, patterns, shapes or images.

   

NEW alternate color for new line types to allow two colors per line.

   

NEW use Adjust palette to recolor stationery borders & backgrounds.

   

Add floating shapes with custom borders and background colors and patterns.

   

Copy and paste border and background styles.

   

Automatically repeat text across background using repeated text tool.

   

Create templates for imprintables by adding a scanned background image and setting it to be non-printing.

     

Includes additional 45 border shapes matching QuicKutz® dies.

     

Patterns

       

Easily fill shapes, borders, backgrounds and text with seamless patterns.

   

Create your own patterns for text, borders and backgrounds using easy pattern designer tools.

   

NEW use Adjust palette to recolor, rotate, scale, and adjust transparency for patterns.

   

NEW selectively recolor parts of patterns using paint bucket tool.

   

NEW selectively make parts of patterns transparent using eraser tool.

   

Printing

       

Configure print window to match printer paper alignment and landscape rotation for easy printing onto small cards.

Print preview envelope addresses and modify address book while previewing.

Print address books, mailing lists and guest lists in the order they are sorted.

Adjust printer offset for perfect print alignment, especially for label sheets and AccuCut dies.

Print two-sided envelopes in one pass through your printer.

 

Print to Graphics File for easy transfer to a third party print shop as TIFF, PNG, EMF or JPEG.

   

Print partial label sheets by specifying start row, start column and number of labels to print.

   

Add crop marks to prints to indicate trim when using overprint.

   

Print font selection sheets.

     

Gang print multiple cards per sheet.

     

Print watermark onto graphical proofs.

     

Templates

       

Templates for stationery by Masterpiece Studios, Great Papers!, Treasure Masters and Holiday Time brands.

Design using Mountaincow Monthly newsletter standard and 2.0 templates.

Design using Mountaincow Monthly newsletter Platinum templates.

 

Design using Mountaincow Monthly newsletter Extreme templates.

   

AccuCut® Pinnovation™ Stationery Dies templates built-in.

   

All Mountaincow Monthly newsletter templates automatically downloaded each month to New Project window.

     

Content Partner templates for Meri Meri, SanLori, Bonnie Marcus Collection, Whitney English, Hicks Paper Goods & Carlson Craft.

     

Envelopments® recipe templates available for download to Envelopments dealers from Envelopments dealer access website.

     
         

Customer Management

       

Project folder for each customer.

     

Separate address book for each customer.

     

NEW search for customer.

     

Organize customers into sub-folders.

     

Email customer proofs and mailing lists.

     

Customer list for marketing mailings.

     

Print reports on hour and print tracking.

     

Employee Management

       

Employee logins.

     

Employee access privileges.

     

Assign employees to project tasks.

     

License

       

Licensed for personal home use.

Licensed for professional use (printing for a fee)

     

Standard Benefits

       

FREE subscription to Mountaincow Monthly email newsletter featuring new downloadable seasonal projects and designs.

Access to searchable Mountaincow website technical support center.

Includes one year of Mountaincow Technical Support and downloadable bug fix updates.

Includes 12 original fonts, plus sample projects and graphics.

Includes bonus monogram font, sample border and background graphics.

 

Includes bonus pattern fonts, monogram styles, and seamless pattern graphics.

   

Professional Benefits

       

Includes one year of PrintingPress Pro Extreme Priority Technical Support, downloadable bug fix updates and downloadable project template updates.

     

Newsletter projects automatically download and install into the new projects window every month.

     

Includes 50 original fonts, plus hundreds of sample projects and thousands of images, borders, backgrounds and seamless patterns.

     

Includes hundreds of content partner templates for Meri Meri, SanLori, Bonnie Marcus Collection, Whitney English, Hicks Paper Goods, Envelopments®, Carlson Craft®, Masterpiece Studios® and AccuCut® Pinnovation™ Stationery Dies.

     

2008-2009 Envelopments® recipe templates available for download to Envelopments dealers from Envelopments dealer access website. 2010 recipes are not yet available.

     

Includes Ensemble Layout templates for Carlson Craft Pockets, with tools to submit print jobs to Carlson Craft.

     

Pro-only discounts on bulk stationery on our website with your serial number.

     
 
         

 

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