What's Behind the Login.
Instant pricing on custom work. Live job status. Real shipping numbers. The freedom to change your mind before press.
Instant Trade Pricing
Priced by the Planning Engine, Not a Person
On most trade sites, "get a quote" means filling in a form and waiting while an estimator works the job out by hand. Here, the planning engine evaluates every machine, sheet size, and imposition for your exact spec — and returns a price on complex custom work in about a second.
That speed is how jobs are won. Print decisions are made quickly: the average quote on this portal becomes an order in about 6.5 minutes. The broker who prices first gets the order — and moves on to the next one.
Anything Custom, Priced Live
Custom sizes, specialty stocks, bindery finishing — configure it and the price is back before your hand leaves the mouse. No estimator review, no waiting on email.
Bound Books in Any Size
Perfect bound, saddle stitch, wire-o, coil — priced live, even at non-standard dimensions.
Envelopes & Trade Finishing
Over 50 envelope styles plus trade services like laminating. You print, we laminate — quoted instantly.
Re-Quote & Re-Order Freely
Unlimited what-ifs on quantities and versions. Save any quote as a template for two-click re-orders.
"This one's probably too complicated to do online."
Three quote requests, reproduced as submitted. Each was configured and priced entirely online.
Trivia Card Deck
- Quantity: 500
- 128 cards per set
- Size: 3.2″ × 5.125″
- 130# UPM Finesse Silk Cover
- Printed 4/4
- Matte lamination 2 sides
- Round cornered
- Shrinkwrapped in individual sets
✓ Configured online. Priced in about a second.
Postcards, Five Versions
- 5 versions, various quantities
- 5,000 / 2,286 / 128 / 120 / 100
- Size: 5″ × 7″
- Tango 18pt C1S
- Printed 4/4
- Gloss lamination 1 side
- Trim, carton by version
✓ Configured online. Priced in about a second.
Perfect Bound Book
- Qty 400
- 96pg plus cover (100 pages total)
- Size flat: 18.5″ × 7.375″
- Size finished: 9.25″ × 7.375″
- Cover printed 5/4, CMYK + PMS 375 / CMYK
- Cover laminated one side with soft touch laminate
- 100lb Silk Cover
- Text printed 4/4
- 100lb Silk Text
- Bind with PUR glue
- Shrink wrap in 10's
✓ Configured online. Priced in about a second.
What configures online here — and doesn't elsewhere
| Imageworks | Typical online portal | |
|---|---|---|
| Configure & quote | ||
| Any custom trim size | ✓ | Standard sizes only |
| Bound books at custom dimensions — wire-o and coil up to 14″ × 14″ | ✓ | — |
| Multiple versions, unequal quantities, one order | ✓ | — |
| Several quantities quoted in a single request | ✓ | Re-enter each time |
| Quantities typed in plain English or French, parsed automatically | ✓ | — |
| Litho and digital priced both ways, lowest cost returned automatically | ✓ | — |
| Spot colour jobs, quoted online | ✓ | — |
| Materials & finishing | ||
| Label stock and synthetic (plastic) materials | ✓ | Limited |
| Kiss cutting with automatic die creation | ✓ | — |
| Die cutting, scoring, and perforation quoted live | ✓ | — |
| Specialty lamination (soft touch, matte, gloss) quoted live | ✓ | Limited |
| Digital foil (gold or silver) quoted live | ✓ | — |
| Mylar & Regency covers on wire-o and coil books | ✓ | — |
| Pads, perfing, cut stacks, corner stitch, and press sheets | ✓ | — |
| Variable data: text, barcodes, numbering, in any combination | ✓ | — |
| Files & proofs | ||
| Canva files accepted, with producer-specific processing | ✓ | — |
| Automatic trim-mark detection on uploads | ✓ | — |
| Instant preflight feedback on supplied files | ✓ | — |
| Missing bleed added automatically | ✓ | — |
| Reader’s spreads split into single pages automatically | ✓ | — |
| Proofs with trim, bleed, safe-area, and binding guides | ✓ | — |
| Printer-spread proofs on saddle stitch; punch-area proofs on wire-o and coil | ✓ | — |
| Per-version files, proofs, and revisions in one order | ✓ | — |
| Orders, shipping & account | ||
| Live carrier rates on your quote; split destinations with per-location packing slips | ✓ | Flat-rate estimates |
| Change shipping after ordering, until the job is boxed | ✓ | — |
| Self-cancel before production at no cost | ✓ | — |
| Pay invoices online, apply credits, record cheque or e-transfer payments | ✓ | — |
| Statements on demand, PO numbers after invoicing, custom invoice fields | ✓ | — |
| Team accounts with per-user permissions and job handoff | ✓ | — |
Files, Proofs & Live Status
Upload & Get Proofs in Minutes
Upload files directly to the order. Automated prepress returns a proof within minutes. If something needs human eyes, a prepress technician picks it up — no silent stalls.
Timeline, Operators, Messages
Every milestone, with timestamps and the names of the operators who handled it. Attach a message to a live job and the team sees it in context — no email chains.
Why We Automate
Repeatability
Printing isn't a creative exercise — it's stability, precision, and control. A file fixed programmatically gets fixed the same way every time, so your reorder comes out looking like your first order.
People Where They Matter
Automation takes human error out of the mundane steps. That frees our experienced operators for the work that actually needs judgment — the complex jobs and the edge cases.
Speed You Can Feel
Proofs come back in minutes, not days. And when you click approve, your job is in the press queue within 30 seconds.
Shipping Without Surprises
Real Freight, Up Front
Our planning engine derives weight, box size, and box count from your spec. Supply the address; the price is part of the quote.
Every Carrier, Custom Labels
All major carriers and local courier, bookable online. Edit job labels and packing slips in the portal — applied automatically when the job ships.
Change Anything Before Press
Real projects shift. We don't penalize you for that.
- Switch a live order between pickup and shipping
- Drop shipping off if you decide to pick it up
- Update the ship-to address mid-order
- Cancel before press — if it costs us nothing, it costs you nothing
White-Label by Default
Our Logo Never Appears on Your Product
Nothing that leaves our dock carries our name — the print, the cartons, and the packing slips all go out clean. As far as your customer knows, the job came from your shop.
See it for yourself.
Registration is free for qualified trade buyers — no commitment, no minimums.
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The Planning Engine →
The brain behind every quote — every machine, sheet size, and imposition, in about a second.