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Welcome to the guided tour of PrintingPress Pro Extreme 4.0, our most advanced professional invitation software. The following pages will introduce you to the software and demonstrate how easy it is to design, print and mail sophisticated invitations and announcements with your PC and printer. To view some examples of stationery printed using PrintingPress, please visit our printed samples page.

PrintingPress Pro Extreme is organized into five main areas:

The tour will describe each of these sections in depth. It will guide you through the following steps to using PrintingPress Pro Extreme to manage an invitation or announcement project:

1. Enter and manage customers and their projects and address books.
2. Create employee logins with different access privileges.
3. Print reports by customer or by date.
4. Track project costs.
5. Create mailings to all your customers.
6. Create stationery and configure layout and margins. Pro Extreme layout options include multiple place cards per page, labels, address labels, business cards and postcards. Pro Extreme 4.0 also includes Envelopments® standard printable shapes and sizes.
7. Design your stationery with text, photos, graphics, monograms and new shapes. The stationery editor includes zoom, accented characters, superscripts and fractions. New rulers make placing text and images easier.
8. Adjust individual lines left, right, up & down, adjust character kerning and line spacing. New: horizontal and vertical stretching.
9. Powerful envelopes allow you to specify one of 10 label name formats, specify an alternate font for the address, auto-spelling of state names and street numbers, even create an envelope with just a return address.
10. Adjust kerning for individual character pairs for addressed envelopes.
11. Customize images with powerful image effects. New convert to outlines feature allows you to convert a full-color image with a black outline to a black and white outline of the image.
12. Add multi-style floating text boxes to your stationery. Extreme typestyles include patterned, outlined, embossed and engraved text as well as our point-size justification. New advanced text styles include Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Small Caps, Lowercase and Uppercase.
13. Type text on a curve, wave, circle, semi-circle, quarter-circle, spiral, vertical line and random jitter.
14. Add monograms to your stationery. Extreme monogram options include diamond and circle monograms. Even use an alternate font for side letters.
15. Add new shapes to your stationery. Fill the shape with any color or pattern, add a frame, and outline and inner pen. Shape outlines include 45 QuicKutz® shapes.
16. Add graphical or custom borders to your stationery, photos, text boxes or monograms. New line styles include Dotted (adjacent to fill), Dotted (overlapping fill), Bumps, Scalloped (adjacent to fill) and Scalloped (overlapping fill). New border fill type allows you to repeat a shape or image around the border.
17. Use patterns in text, borders and backgrounds.
18. Create your own custom patterns.
19. Align and distribute floating objects.
20. Add a background image, color or pattern to your stationery.
21. Use the built-in spell checker to avoid spelling errors.
22. Import addresses into the Address Book. Extreme allows you to import from Word® and can automatically clean up addresses (remove extra spaces, etc.).
23. Compile a Mailing List from addresses in the Address Book and keep track of RSVPs and gifts received. New: Import Guest Lists.
24. Print stationery and envelopes. Even print two-sided envelopes in a single pass.
25. Print stationery to a graphic file for emailing proofs or offset printing. Includes optional watermark.
26. Print a font test sheet to show customers different font choices.
27. Manage multiple invitation and announcement projects at once. Create new projects based on samples including the Envelopments® recipes that ship with PrintingPress Pro Extreme 4.0.

If you would like to purchase PrintingPress Pro Extreme, please visit our online store.