Whether you want a formal and traditional look, a lighthearted and winsome appearance or something else altogether, this application can help you and your fiancé easily set the tone of your nuptials from the very start by making your own wedding invitations. This is your big day, after all, and PrintingPress will help you design and print inexpensive, but high-quality items ranging from wedding invitations to R.S.V.P. cards to menus. This product easily won our TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award since it lets you be as creative as you want and get excellent help from PrintingPress’s wedding invitation ideas.
PrintingPress is one of the best wedding invitations software applications on the market. The extensive features, easy-to-use software and strong technical support make this a first-rate product.
With PrintingPress, you can create wedding invitation cards or save the date cards, direction and place cards, ceremony programs, menus, announcements, decorative stationery stamps, envelopes and even transparent or translucent paper overlays.
This wedding invitations software has a number of preloaded features that let you pick flat or folded cards, pocket cards and more, all with envelopes sized to match, so you can design virtually every wedding stationery product you will need.
The software lets you print envelopes with the option of placing the return address on the front of the envelope in the more modern style or onto the back envelope flap, which is the more traditional and etiquette-maven-approved way to handle wedding invitations. You also can print inner envelopes. The application lets you assign guests to tables for place card printing.
This application is quite versatile and lets you do such things as mark where holes should be punched after a paper product is printed so ribbons can be threaded through the holes and tied into a bow. You can color-coordinate everything, choose styles, add photos or images and write your own wording to fit the level of formality or informality of this special occasion.
With the text tools on PrintingPress, you can adjust such things as line spacing and arrangements as well as characters. A sophisticated new tool lets you add accents to words in European languages. With PrintingPress, there are 12 preloaded fonts and many preloaded images to choose from, but you also can start from scratch with blank paper and design your wedding invitations in any fashion you like.
You can browse for such things as borders, backgrounds, images and patterns and then view them as thumbnails. You can copy and paste various text styles and zoom in and out to see how things look both up close and on a broader scale. You also can preview what you have created before any printing is underway.
One fun feature lets you color-coordinate text with an image color by using pull-down menus of color selections. Move the cursor to pick up the hue of your choice from an image, which you can then automatically place into the text. If you don’t like the look, the text color can quickly be restored to its original appearance or totally redone with something else. The same process can be used for the background color.
If you want, you can order the sample project stationery or other paper products in bulk from Mountaincow, the parent company of PrintingPress. An immediate link on the wedding invitations software takes you to the company’s web site, which offers an extensive array of additional products as well as a free help and support system for the software application.
Importing digital photographs or images is a fast and simple process with this wedding invitations app and there are plenty of tools for editing the pictures. The software lets you move, size, crop, rotate and flip pictures as well as make them semi-transparent.
You also can change the color intensity of an image, increase or decrease its brightness or blur it. You also can make white transparent, which means everything white becomes clear, making it possible to see the writing or images that have been placed underneath.
One particularly appealing feature lets you “gray scale” a color picture so it looks like an old-fashioned black and white photograph. You also can “fade” crisp photo borders for a softer and somewhat nostalgic look. Another creative tool lets you add floating images over written text.
Printing wedding invitations can be done at home with any printer. Many printers can be set at the traditional letter size and the software will take it from there. However, some printers have paper sensors that detect a “mismatch” between the settings and the actual paper size, so the software contains a section where paper sizes can be selected and set. It’s good to take a trial run with one sheet of paper to make sure everything looks as it should before launching into the full printing task.
When creating your wedding invitations and other stationery, you can either manually type in a guest’s name and address, or you can import guest lists from Outlook, Excel or any CSV file for printing envelopes. Guest mailing lists can be sorted as needed for various events (“girls’ names only” for a bridal shower, for example). The mailing list also can be preserved for other uses such as house warming invitations, holiday cards, birth announcements and more. If you decide to not handle the actual printing yourself, you still can do all the creative work at home so it looks exactly the way you want and then send the entire package to a professional service to be completed.
We found this wedding invitations software very easy to use. Its interface is modern and quite straightforward, which makes it very user-friendly. This application is well-organized and, in addition to the toolbar at the top of the screen, it offers a feature window along the left side that allows you to select and work on various projects. PrintingPress also provides excellent help and support if you have any questions.
This is an area where PrintingPress really shines. It includes a helpful user guide available to get you started. A quick click to the website brings up an online tour, FAQs and technical support that permits you to see previously asked questions or enter a new question. Emails generally are answered in one business day. PrintingPress also provides one year of company technical support, “bug fix” updates and a subscription to its monthly email newsletter that offers free downloads of products that are suited to the seasons.
PrintingPress lets you create beautiful and professional looking wedding invitations and other stationery at a fraction of the cost that you would pay if you bought everything ready-made. It also gives you and your fiancé a free hand to truly personalize every aspect of your wedding invitations. With this software, it is easy to create the exact design and style you want. PrintingPress is an excellent product and a great value.
