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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 $599.
Press-speed curve by colour count, per-colour plate cost, makeready waste, die amortisation, MSI pricing. Recalculates in under 5ms, validated against our internal regression baseline.
Every configured press × every quantity break in one screen. The flexo-to-digital crossover highlighted automatically. No mental arithmetic. One-glance routing decision.
Engine 1: Flexo. Engine 2: HP Indigo click-charge (per-impression, coverage-independent). Engine 3: UV inkjet ink-coverage %. Engine 4: Xeikon subscription allocation. All four in one comparative matrix.
Press compatibility flags on every substrate. Machine compatibility matrix per label product. Quote creation auto-filters to qualified presses only — incompatible presses never appear in the quote.
Required at order completion. Per-component variance ($, %). Root-cause annotation. Margin erosion becomes visible and addressable, not invisible until the quarterly P&L.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Example — 10 jobs/week, $75/hr estimator, 1 scheduling conflict/month, 1 misrouted job/month:
Example — based on default calculator inputs. Your actual figures may vary.
Excel worksheet with the complete flexo label estimating formula — press speed, plates, waste, MSI pricing, and margin built in.
Excel calculator that computes the flexo-to-digital crossover quantity for any label size, colour count, and press configuration.
Comprehensive Excel workbook for label converter job costing — track estimated vs actual cost, margin, and press efficiency across every job.
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