⚡ Patent-pending self-correcting AI estimating

From customer email to priced quote in 30 seconds.

Printcore.ai reads the request, prices the job with real production math, gets customer approval online, and builds your shop-floor schedule — automatically. Built by a working print shop.

No credit card required · 15-minute AI-guided setup · cancel anytime
30 secemail → priced quote with AI
6quoting modules, one system
1 clickquote → production schedule
24/7customer self-serve portal
2-day quote turnaround30 seconds
Phone-tag approvalsone click online
Whiteboard schedulingauto-generated ops
Gut-feel pricinglive margin on every quote

The shop that quotes first wins the job. Printcore makes sure that's you.

60-second demo

Watch a quote happen.

Email in. Quote out. Approved online. On the schedule. This is the whole loop — in real time.

Why shops switch

Every job, from "can you quote this?" to invoiced.

🪄 AI Quote — your inbox prices itself

On the Pro plan, your shop gets its own dedicated quote email address. Forward a customer request — typed, pasted, even spoken — and Claude-powered AI extracts the line items, sizes and quantities, matches materials to your inventory, and routes each item to the right calculator.

  • Reads plain-English requests: "3 window perfs about 4ft by 3ft…"
  • Matches "PVC" to your PVC 3mm Sintra — with one-click confirm
  • Finds the customer in your records, QuickBooks, or CRM
PARSED FROM EMAIL — 3 ITEMS
Window Perf Graphics ×348″×36″ · matched: Window Perf 50/50
$250.63
Loyalty Punch Cards ×1004″×6″ · matched: 16pt C2S Cardstock
$25.44
Menu Board ×136″×24″ · matched: PVC 3mm Sintra
$103.06

📐 Pricing built on production math — not guesswork

Live nesting on rolls and press sheets with automatic rotation, material and labor costing, overhead allocation, and your markup chain. You see the margin before the customer sees the price.

  • Roll & sheet layout visualized — waste minimized on every job
  • Full cost breakdown: material, ink, labor, equipment, overhead
  • Six calculators: wide format, digital, booklets, wraps, cut vinyl, channel letters
CALCULATED PRICE
$247.25
2 × 72″×36″ banners · auto-rotated on a 60″ roll
Material + ink
$26.50
Labor + equipment
$139.50
Your margin49.8% ✓

🤝 Customers approve online — no phone tag

Send a polished quote email; your customer opens a simple portal (email + PIN, nothing to install), uploads artwork, and clicks approve. The job lands on your shop-floor board the same second.

  • Quote → approve → production, with zero re-entry
  • Artwork uploads up to 100MB, attached straight to the job
  • Customers track status themselves — fewer "where's my order?" calls
  • Unlimited portals on the Pro plan
Your Order #1001 — Grand Opening Package2× banners · 500 flyers · 50 yard signs
$839.81
✓ Approve Quote & Start Production
…and it's on your kanban board. Instantly.
🔬 PATENT-PENDING

⏱ Estimates that get smarter with every job

Printcore's estimating engine compares the actual time every operation takes against what it predicted — and corrects the next estimate automatically. No time-standard spreadsheets to maintain. The longer you use it, the more accurate your quotes and schedules get.

  • Hemming ran 33% over? Next estimate self-corrects.
  • Quotes and schedules tighten up with every completed op
  • Estimate-accuracy reporting shows the engine learning
ESTIMATE ACCURACY
Wide Format Printest 25m · actual 27m
92%
Hem & Grommetest 18m23m next · actual 24m
75%
⟳ Self-correctingevery job tunes the next
Production & reporting · 60 seconds

Then watch the shop floor run itself.

One click turns an approved quote into sequenced operations — stations, timing, dependencies, inventory. Claude-powered analysis finds your bottleneck before it costs you.

And the back office too

Inventory, purchasing & intelligence — included.

📦

Inventory that updates itself

Stock deducts automatically the moment a job hits production. Low-stock alerts and reorder thresholds tied to a live supplier catalog — 250+ banner materials alone, one click to add.

🧠

Claude-powered insights

Nine AI reports watch your business: profitability analysis that catches mispriced jobs, bottleneck detection, churn-risk flags, substrate forecasting. Specific, honest, actionable.

📊

Industry benchmarks

Opt-in, anonymized comparison against other shops — margins, turnaround, utilization. Only aggregates are ever shared. Know where you actually stand.

Up and running today

Quoting before your coffee gets cold.

1

Sign up free

30 days, every feature, no credit card. Your shop, your data, cancel anytime.

2

Describe your shop

One sentence — "sign shop with a Canon Colorado, a Zund, two laminators" — and the AI Setup Assistant builds your stations, materials, and pricing defaults. About 15 minutes.

3

Send your first AI quote

Forward a real customer email and watch it come back priced. Most shops send a live quote on day one.

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Simple pricing

Every plan starts with a free 30-day trial.

Full access during your trial. No credit card to start. Unlimited team members on every plan. Pick a plan only when it's already paying for itself.

Starter

$299/mo
For small shops getting off spreadsheets
  • All 6 quoting calculators
  • Unlimited team members
  • Quote approvals by email
  • Inventory & supplier catalog
  • Standard AI reports — profitability, sales trends, customer insights
  • All integrations — accounting & CRM (via Apideck), shipping via Shippo
  • CSV export on everything
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Pro

$699/mo
For shops that want the full AI engine
  • Everything in Starter
  • Unlimited customer portals & online approvals
  • AI Quote — email, paste & voice quoting
  • Production autopilot + patent-pending self-correcting estimates
  • Production AI reports — bottlenecks, estimate accuracy & operator analytics from live time capture
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Enterprise

Custom
Multi-site, franchise & production networks
  • Everything in Pro
  • Multi-site management & roles
  • Onboarding & data migration support
  • Priority support
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🤝 Canon hardware customer? Ask about the Canon Customer Edition — Pro at $499/mo for year one.

Questions

Before you start your trial

Do I need a credit card to start the trial?

No. Sign up with an email, name your shop, and you're in. The 30-day trial includes every feature — AI quoting, production, portal, reports. You only choose a plan if you decide to stay.

How long does setup actually take?

About 15 minutes. The AI Setup Assistant builds your equipment stations from a one-sentence description of your shop, seeds standard print-industry materials and products, and sets regional tax and pricing defaults. You can also paste old invoices or a rate card and the AI imports your historical pricing.

What does "patent-pending self-correcting estimates" mean?

Every time an operation completes, Printcore compares the actual recorded time against its estimate and applies a correction to future estimates of that operation type. Your quotes and schedules get measurably more accurate the longer you use it — no manual time-standard maintenance.

Does it work with QuickBooks? What about my CRM?

Yes — and it's included on every plan. Printcore connects through Apideck to most accounting and CRM packages: QuickBooks Online, Xero, Sage, FreshBooks, NetSuite, Wave, and the major CRMs. It imports historical invoices to power AI pricing suggestions, syncs customers both ways, and creates invoices when jobs complete. Shipping rates and labels come from USPS, UPS, and FedEx via Shippo.

What happens to my data if I cancel?

It's your data. Export quotes, customers, and reports to CSV at any time during or after your trial. Industry benchmarking is strictly opt-in and only ever shares anonymized aggregates.

Is my team included?

Yes — add team members with role-based permissions. Operators get their own "My Work" view on the production schedule, and every completed operation feeds the patent-pending estimating engine.

The shop that quotes first wins the job.
Starting today, that's you.

Free for 30 days. Set up in 15 minutes. Send a real AI quote before lunch.

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