Stop Quoting Flexo Jobs in a Spreadsheet That Doesn't Know What Press You Run.
Flexo Command Center is the only MIS that prices your flexo presses and every digital press you run in one comparative quote — surfacing the crossover automatically at every quantity break. Self-serve from $199/month.
- 14-day free trial — no credit card required
- Quote your first real job in under 15 minutes
- Built on 8 years of production label-quoting expertise
Your estimating workbook has one author, no version control, and a cell error that will cost you $1,500.
Flexo quotes take 30–60 minutes
Put your own loaded estimator cost against the hours it eats: a shop quoting 10 jobs a week loses real money to math any software should handle in under a minute, and a repeat job that should take 5 minutes takes 20–30 because the workbook has to be re-entered from scratch.
No tool answers "which press wins this job at 5,000 labels?"
A hybrid shop with three presses can't find the crossover without redoing the estimate from scratch on each press's spreadsheet. The flexo-to-digital crossover — the quantity where digital stops being cheaper than flexo — moves with label geometry, colour count and plate cost, so it lands somewhere different on every job. Every job misrouted around it is a pricing and routing error.
Scheduling conflicts discovered at job start are expensive
A whiteboard or shared calendar books presses. Conflicts surface when the press operator arrives to set up a job and finds the press already committed — and at your own press's hourly rate, an afternoon of downtime and rework adds up fast.
Many small converters keep no estimated-vs-actual job costing
A 3% margin underestimate on a $50,000 job is $1,500 lost and undetected. Multiplied across a shop running 40 jobs/month with a 1–2% systematic underestimate, the annual margin erosion is $24,000–$48,000.
One quoting engine. Every press. The crossover, automatically.
Engine for Every Press Type
Flexo press-speed curve by colour count. HP Indigo click charge — a flat per-impression fee, independent of ink coverage. UV inkjet ink-coverage % with white-ink surcharge. Xeikon subscription amortisation. Four cost engines, one comparative quote, the crossover highlighted at every quantity break.
Self-Serve from $199/Month
The estimator signs up, configures their press, and quotes a real job in the first session — no sales call, no implementation, no six-month onboarding. One mispriced job at a 3% underestimate on a $50,000 order pays for 7.5 months of the Essentials subscription.
From Quoting to Full MIS
The quoting engine is the entry point. Scheduling, tooling library, ink room, job costing, and invoicing unlock as you grow — through pricing tiers, not a migration. Land the estimator at $199. Layer the GM in at $599.
Every feature your estimating workbook can't do
Flexo Quoting Engine
Press-speed curve by colour count, per-colour plate cost, makeready waste, die amortisation, MSI pricing. Recalculates in under 5ms, validated against our internal regression baseline.
All-Machine Comparative Quote
Every configured press × every quantity break in one screen. The flexo-to-digital crossover highlighted automatically. No mental arithmetic. One-glance routing decision.
Four Cost Engine Types
Engine 1: Flexo. Engine 2: HP Indigo click-charge (per-impression, coverage-independent). Engine 3: UV inkjet ink-coverage %. Engine 4: Xeikon subscription allocation. All four in one comparative matrix.
Substrate + Compatibility Library
Press compatibility flags on every substrate. Machine compatibility matrix per label product. Quote creation auto-filters to qualified presses only — incompatible presses never appear in the quote.
Est-vs-Actual Job Costing
Required at order completion. Per-component variance ($, %). Root-cause annotation. Margin erosion becomes visible and addressable, not invisible until the quarterly P&L.
Dual-Granularity Press Scheduling
Flexo presses in shift blocks. Digital presses in hour:minute lanes. DFE preflight gate blocks digital job placement until file sign-off. Conflicts surfaced before job start, not discovered at press.
How it works
Configure Your Press Fleet
Add your presses — Mark Andy, Nilpeter, HP Indigo, Durst, Xeikon — with your actual speed curves, click rates, ink coverage parameters, and hourly rates. Takes 15 minutes. Done once.
Quote Any Job on Any Press
Enter label dimensions, substrate, colour count, finish, and up to four quantity breaks. The engine recalculates instantly. For hybrid shops on Professional, the all-machine comparative quote shows every press at every quantity — crossover highlighted.
Export a Branded PDF
Generate a professional quote PDF in your organization's name. Email it to the customer. Repeat quotes in under 2 minutes by recalling the saved product from your catalog.
How much is manual quoting costing you?
Example — 10 jobs/week, $75/hr estimator, 1 scheduling conflict/month, 1 misrouted job/month:
- Estimated Annual Quoting Labour Cost
- $29,250
- Annual Scheduling Conflict Cost
- $7,200
- Recommended Tier
- Essentials ($199/mo)
- Estimated Annual Savings
- $33,662
Example — based on default calculator inputs. Your actual figures may vary.
Start with a template. Graduate to the full MIS.
Label Job Estimating Worksheet — Excel worksheet for flexo label estimating
Excel worksheet with the complete flexo label estimating formula — press speed, plates, waste, MSI pricing, and margin built in.
Flexo vs Digital Crossover Calculator — Excel crossover quantity calculator
Excel calculator that computes the flexo-to-digital crossover quantity for any label size, colour count, and press configuration.
Label Converter Job Costing Workbook — Excel job costing workbook for label converters
Comprehensive Excel workbook for label converter job costing — track estimated vs actual cost, margin, and press efficiency across every job.