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You describe the outcome — quote this job, schedule that order, reorder paper before Friday. The AI doesn't just advise — it executes the operation, then verifies it against your live stock levels, margin floors, press calendar, and pricing history before showing it to you. If anything breaks a constraint, it surfaces the conflict instead of papering over it. Every decision is auditable and tied back to the rules of your shop.

About 30 seconds from a plain-English brief like "5,000 A4 flyers, 130gsm gloss, full bleed both sides" to a finished cost sheet — paper, press time, finishing, margin, and a quoted price grounded in your live stock and pricing history. Manual quoting typically takes 15–30 minutes per job; PeakSpitz collapses that to under a minute and applies the same logic at midnight as at 11am.

Yes. Wide-format printers, sign shops, and mixed shops use PeakSpitz for roll-fed costing (per linear metre or per square metre), finishing operations like lamination, eyeletting, and CNC contour cutting, and material-aware scheduling that respects roll widths and substrate stock. The same estimator handles short-run digital, large-format inkjet, and screen-print jobs.

PeakSpitz was built with working print shops — litho, digital, wide-format, and mixed. If you're running between 5 and 50 people, quoting a mix of commercial and short-run work, the estimator, production engine, and customer portal were designed for exactly your day. We import your last six months of jobs as a baseline on day one, so the AI is pricing against your numbers, not a generic dataset.

One week, not six months. We schedule a 20-minute demo on a file from your own shop, then spend the first few days importing your materials list, stock levels, and recent quotes. You'll be quoting live by the end of week one. No implementation fee and no consultancy hours — your monthly subscription covers it.

Plenty of shops run PeakSpitz alongside existing MIS — usually starting with estimating and the customer portal while the old system handles accounting and job bags. We export cleanly to CSV and have direct integrations for the common MIS stacks. Move at the pace that fits your shop; we don't require a full cut-over to prove value.

Your data stays in EU data centers, encrypted in transit and at rest. PeakSpitz is GDPR compliant by default — customer records, pricing history, and production files are isolated per tenant. You own your data: export it at any time, and if you ever leave, we hand you a full archive and delete our copy.

PeakSpitz AIERP Basic is $50/month with every AI capability included, unlimited users, and a 14-day free trial. Pro is $249/month for shops that need higher API throughput and priority support. Enterprise pricing is available on request for multi-site shops. There are no per-user fees, no AI add-on charges, and no implementation consultants — your subscription covers it.

PrintVis is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and requires that licence stack. Theurer C3 is a 30-year-old veteran with deep JDF and scheduling but legacy UX and no AI. PrintPlanr is a web-to-print and quoting tool without a full production engine. PeakSpitz AIERP is AI-first from the first line of code, runs in the browser without a Microsoft stack, includes an end-to-end production workflow engine, and starts at $50/month with unlimited users. See /compare/printvis/, /compare/theurer/, and /compare/printplanr/ for line-by-line breakdowns.

For SME shops yes — PeakSpitz delivers the estimating, scheduling, production tracking, and customer portal that Tharstern, EFI Pace (now eProductivity Software / Print ePS), PrintSmith Vision, and Optimus MIS cover, with an AI-first interface, cloud-native architecture, EU hosting, no Microsoft licence, no per-seat fees, and a price point an order of magnitude below the incumbents. For very large shops (250+ staff, multi-plant) the incumbents still have deeper customisation; for shops in the 5–50 range PeakSpitz is the modern alternative.

Ordant, shopVOX, printIQ, DocketManager, and HiFlow are the modern mid-market Print MIS cohort — better UX than the legacy incumbents but still operator-driven menu-based software with AI bolted on as a feature. PeakSpitz AIERP inverts that: the operator states the intent ("quote 5,000 A4 flyers", "reschedule the rush") and the AI executes the operation, then verifies it against your live stock, margin floors, and press calendar. Pricing is also materially lower — most of this cohort starts at $150–400/month per shop with seat-based add-ons; PeakSpitz starts at $50/month with unlimited users.

DynamicsPrint is an AI-augmented Print MIS layered on Microsoft Dynamics 365 — useful if you already run the Microsoft stack but inherits its licence cost and complexity. Printude.AI is an AI-consulting + ERP hybrid targeting larger packaging shops. PeakSpitz AIERP is the AI-first, EU-hosted, no-Microsoft-licence option for SME print shops — same AI-driven quoting, scheduling, and material reordering capabilities, on a cloud platform that does not require a Dynamics 365 BC stack, an implementation consultant, or per-user fees.

Those tools are built primarily for apparel decorators, screen printers, and DTG/DTF shops — their estimators model garment cost, print location, and ink coverage rather than substrate, makeready, and gang-runs. PeakSpitz is built for commercial print and sign & display shops; for an apparel-only operation Printavo / YoPrint / DecoNetwork are likely a better fit. For mixed shops running garment work alongside commercial print, PeakSpitz handles the commercial side and integrates via API with apparel-specific tooling. We will tell you honestly which platform is the better fit for your shop.

The classic Print Shop (Broderbund / The Print Shop Deluxe) was consumer desktop publishing software, not a commercial Print MIS. Commercial print shops in 2026 use a Print MIS — software for the production side of running a shop: estimating, scheduling, job tracking, materials, invoicing. PeakSpitz AIERP is an AI-first Print MIS for SME commercial print shops; sibling tools include PrintVis, PrintSmith Vision, Tharstern, Optimus MIS, Ordant, shopVOX, and printIQ. For desktop publishing (the classic Print Shop's actual job) modern equivalents are Affinity Publisher, Adobe InDesign, or Canva.

A Print MIS (Management Information System) is the business-side software — estimating, scheduling, job tracking, materials, invoicing, customer portal. RIP software (Raster Image Processor — Onyx, Caldera, PrintFactory, Flexi, Heidelberg Prinect) is the production-side software that converts a press-ready PDF into the dot-pattern instructions that drive the printer or press. Every commercial shop needs both. They talk to each other via JDF or hot-folder. PeakSpitz is a Print MIS; it integrates with your existing RIP rather than replacing it.

For SME commercial print shops with a healthy mix of short-run digital, wide-format, and value-added finishing, yes — typical net margins sit in the 8–15% range, with well-run shops above 20%. The two largest margin killers are inconsistent quoting (underpricing high-touch work) and idle press time. Both are squarely what a Print MIS like PeakSpitz exists to fix: every quote applied against the same rules, every job slotted onto the press calendar before it lands. Shops that adopt a modern MIS typically recover the subscription cost in the first month from quoting consistency alone.

Yes. PeakSpitz exports invoices and purchase orders to Xero, QuickBooks Online, and Sage via direct integration; for other accounting stacks the REST API and webhook layer let you push journal entries on order completion. Tax codes, VAT rates, and multi-currency are first-class on the invoice model.

Yes. The migration playbook covers customer records, items/SKUs, materials and stock levels, six months of historical jobs (used to baseline AI pricing), open quotes, and active orders. CSV import is the default route; for Tharstern, PrintVis, and Theurer C3 we have direct mapping templates. Most shops complete the data migration in 2–5 working days alongside their normal operation.

Yes. PeakSpitz runs in EU data centers (Frankfurt and Paris regions), with data encrypted in transit and at rest, per-tenant database isolation, and a signed GDPR DPA available to every customer. Customer records, pricing history, and production files never leave the EU. PeakSpitz is operated by ARADYNE LIMITED, an EU-headquartered company.

You get a full export of every record — customers, items, materials, stock, jobs, quotes, orders, invoices, audit logs — as CSV plus a JSON archive of the structured database. Your data continues to be downloadable for 90 days after cancellation, then permanently deleted. There is no lock-in clause, no exit fee, and no data-rescue charge.

One week, not six months. Day 1: 20-minute demo on your own job file. Days 2–3: materials and stock import, six-month job history backfill. Days 4–5: estimator training (about 90 minutes total) and live quoting with the AI. Press operators and customer-facing staff usually pick up the relevant screens in under an hour each, because the UI is designed around the actions they already do — quote, schedule, reorder, look up.

Yes. Wide-format shops use PeakSpitz for per-linear-metre and per-square-metre costing, roll-width-aware substrate consumption, and finishing operations like lamination, eyeletting, and CNC contour cutting modelled as separate billable lines. The estimator switches form layout when the job is flagged as wide-format. Mixed shops running both sheet-fed and wide-format jobs on the same MIS are common.

PeakSpitz outputs JDF tickets for JDF-enabled presses and finishing kit (Heidelberg, Komori, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, HP Indigo, Canon). For prepress workflows it connects to Heidelberg Prinect, Esko Automation Engine, and Kodak Prinergy via hot-folder or JDF. Storefront integrations include Shopify and a hosted PeakSpitz web-to-print storefront per tenant. Accounting integrations include Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage. The REST API and webhook layer cover anything not on that list.

Yes. The standard demo is a 20-minute session on a file from your own shop, run by an estimator who knows the print vertical. We can also set up a sandbox tenant pre-loaded with sample print-shop data so you can explore the UI in your own time. There is no sales-call gauntlet — book the demo, see it work on your file, decide.

Every AI action is verified before it lands — pricing checked against margin floors, schedules checked against press capacity, reorders checked against stock and lead times. The operator approves or adjusts every proposal; nothing executes silently. The AI is grounded in your data only (your materials, your pricing history, your customers) — there is no training on your data into a shared model. Every decision the AI takes is logged with the inputs, the proposal, and the human approval.