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PrintingPress Extreme version 6.0 is now available. We have added even more powerful design features so you can produce fabulous invitations more quickly & easily then ever before.

We have created two different online tours to showcase the new features. To see the features in action, try our interactive guided tour. To read about the each feature in detail, check out the standard online tour.

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 newsletter gallery.

The tour will show you the basics in PrintingPress Extreme. It will guide you through the following steps to use PrintingPress Extreme to manage an invitation or announcement project. We have indicated new PrintingPress Extreme 6.0 features in blue.

1. Manage multiple invitation and announcement projects at once. Create new projects based on one of the included samples, choose one of the projects from our free monthly newsletter, or create a blank project. In addition, you can choose from on one of the Content Partner templates for use with imprintable stationery from Masterpiece Studios®. PrintingPress Extreme also includes templates for the AccuCut Pinnovation® system.
2. Create stationery and configure layout and margins. PrintingPress Extreme layout options include multiple place cards per page, labels, address labels, business cards, postcards, StationeryStamps and gift wrap. PrintingPress Extreme 6.0 also includes templates for AccuCut Pinnovation® dies.
3. Design your stationery with text, photos, graphics, monograms and shapes. The stationery editor includes zoom, accented characters, superscripts and fractions. New text columns let you easily create ceremony programs or table seating charts. Add optional column connectors in a variety of styles.
4. 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.
5. Add images to any stationery. Browse image thumbnails to quickly locate the desired image. Customize images with powerful image effects. New selective color feature allows you to selectively recolor or erase part of an image, border or pattern. Use controls on the Adjust palette to rotate, recolor or make white transparent for images and patterns or modify stationery borders and backgrounds.
6. Add multi-style floating text boxes to your stationery. Double-click on existing text boxes to edit text in place. Extreme type styles include patterned, outlined, embossed and engraved text as well as our point-size justification.
7. Type text on a curve, wave, circle, semi-circle, quarter-circle, spiral, vertical line and random jitter.
8. Add monograms to your stationery. Extreme monogram options include diamond and circle monograms. Even use an alternate font for side letters.
9. Add shapes to your stationery. Fill the shape with any color or pattern, add a frame, and outline and inner pen.
10. Add graphical or custom borders to your stationery, photos, text boxes or monograms. We added 25 new line types to PrintingPress Extreme 6.0, including Loops, Wave, Ric Rac, Double Line, Circle, Dash, Greek Key and more. Specify an alternate color for certain line types.
11. Use patterns in text, borders and backgrounds. Even create your own custom patterns.
12. Align and distribute floating objects.
13. Add a background image, color or pattern to your stationery. Repeat text or monograms to create a pattern - great for gift wrap!
14. Use the built-in spell checker to avoid spelling errors. Check spelling on all floating text boxes in-place.
15. Import addresses into the Address Book. PrintingPress Extreme allows you to import from Comma Separated Value (*.csv), Microsoft Excel® 2003 (*.xls) or Access® Database (*.mdb) files.
16. Compile a Mailing List from addresses in the Address Book and keep track of RSVPs and gifts received. Create Guest Lists for table place cards.
17. Print stationery using any printer. Print two-sided envelopes in a single pass or add crop marks.
18. Print stationery to a graphic file offset printing.
19. New search tool lets you search for projects and images.

If you would like to purchase PrintingPress Extreme 6.0, please visit our online store.