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No apologies necessary, gazfocus. I welcome all evaluations of Morning Flight, critical or complimentary, I honestly do. No program is perfect and is often a compromise. There is always room to make them work easier and better - provided somebody tells the developer. The use of icons instead of...

I couldn't agree more, gazfocus! https://www.printfire.com/faq.html

Ouch, Gazfocus! As the Architect and Chief Designer of Morning Flight, that should have hurt. I can’t argue about your “outdated” claim because that’s partially true and is being given a makeover to match the look and feel of our current wide format interface. As for being “ridiculous”, you...

On this Memorial Day weekend, I'm grateful for a number of things: Grateful for having survived the war while growing up in Germany, grateful for having been allowed to serve two tours in the U.S. Army without ever having come into harm's way, and grateful for having loyal supporters like Keith...

Hi Simon, and thank you for downloading the free edition. As Keith mentioned, error messages are rare in Morning Flight but this one got past us when we added wide format. The WFSFile holds wide format substrates. The free edition doesn't do wide format and consequently doesn't need substrates...

Alive and well, DYP, and totally not for sale. We get approached now and then but have never been even remotely tempted to enter into negotiations. Morning Flight is a labor of love and will stay that way. We have close to 7,000 users worldwide and I wouldn't dream of abandoning a single one of...

I'm totally in agreement with MailGuru when it comes to market pricing versus cost plus, and evidently so are you. Chalk one up for common sense. We've found national averages for digital easier to come by than for offset, thanks to published surveys. You didn't specify, so here are our two...

Good choice, kdw75, one of the better ones out there. Altogether, what's "not too expensive" for putting a print shop online these days? Somewhere around 3-5 grand a year I suspect? My Order Desk costs a thousand a year in basic form, and I applaud them for letting everyone know. MIS pricing...

Color me dense, Michael, but who is that mystical "MAN" that can help us race to the bottom?

No Title Not to appear sarcastic, Yroc, but should that excel file be built before or after that "someone" gets a life? I'm forever amazed by how many shop owners decide to go down the spreadsheet road, only to throw in the towel after having spent far too many hours building a simple x-up...

ETA - Q1. We're looking at weeks, not months. That's the best I can do for now, DYP. Thanks for asking. http://www.printfire.com/discussion.html

No Title Thank you, Keith, for your ringing endorsement. I would be the first to agree with your comment about the interface being "a bit dated", but as you mentioned, change is on the way. Not just to the interface but to the whole Morning Flight way of pricing things digital. On the flip...

In really basic terms, the answer is yes. In real life it's a little more complicated than that. I know, not what you wanted to hear. The industry standard book is Philip K. Ruggles' "Printing Estimating." Pick up a cheap early printing and start with "General Procedure for Selling, Estimating...

I'm gratified by the response you're getting from forum members, Joe. No concrete numbers yet, but don’t forget to check Staples and Vistaprint and the internet. Just don't be surprised by the "crazy" highs and lows a Goggle search will get you. There’s an easy solution for that in Morning...

I'm glad you're still using Morning Flight, Joe, and I'm hoping forum members will respond to your questions. It would be especially helpful to any digital print service provider to learn how much other shops are marking up click charges and paper. Press rates are easier to arrive at internally...