# BuildYourPrint (Calc2Print)

> BuildYourPrint is the first real web-to-print system: an online print shop where customers configure print jobs, see a price calculated from the shop’s own papers, presses and finishing, and order 24/7. Versions ganged on the sheet, a calculated imposition, a page builder and orders that arrive ready to print.

BuildYourPrint (also known as Calc2Print) is web-to-print, print estimating, imposition and JDF 1.6 software built specifically for commercial print shops (digital, sheetfed offset, large format, books/binding, and packaging). Instead of maintaining static CSV/Excel price lookup tables, a print shop enters its papers, presses, finishing machines, packaging and couriers as production parameters. Every product is a live calculator built on those parameters. Customers configure a print job on the shop's own domain, see a price calculated from the real sheet and press in ~0.1 seconds, upload PDFs and pay online. Orders arrive on an order board with preflighted files, sheet imposition (recto/verso, katernen, fold schemes, cut plans) and, on the Enterprise tier, a CIP4-compliant JDF 1.6 job ticket for the press.

Full technical and multi-language reference: [llms-full.txt](https://buildyourprint.com/llms-full.txt)

## Core Pages (English — https://buildyourprint.com/)

- [Home](https://buildyourprint.com/): The first real web-to-print: your print products online, every order calculated in 0.1 sec from your own presses, papers and finishing. Set up with you, live in hours.
- [Print webshop](https://buildyourprint.com/calculate.html): Your print webshop: a real price in 0.1 sec, calculated from your own presses, papers and finishing. Versions, rules and imposition included.
- [Website / CMS](https://buildyourprint.com/webshop.html): Your website and CMS: theme, pages, menu, footer and calculator layout, built by your own staff and published as fast static pages.
- [Orders](https://buildyourprint.com/orders.html): From paid order to shipped parcel: payment, delivery date, files and PDF checks, the order board, status e-mails and invoices.
- [Integrations](https://buildyourprint.com/integrations.html): What BuildYourPrint connects to: Mollie, Exact Online, Lightspeed, orders out to your MIS, and JDF 1.6 job tickets for your presses.
- [JDF 1.6](https://buildyourprint.com/jdf.html): JDF 1.6 job tickets for every press vendor: what the ticket carries, 1.4 versus 1.6, and the press templates in the making. Enterprise tier.
- [Why us](https://buildyourprint.com/why-buildyourprint.html): What you have today versus BuildYourPrint, every page of the platform in one list, and why calculated beats promised.
- [What to expect](https://buildyourprint.com/what-to-expect.html): How a BuildYourPrint shop starts: the demo, set-up with personal help, your design copied, the first order, and what each tier gives you.
- [Calc2Print vs Web2Print](https://buildyourprint.com/calc2print.html): Why BuildYourPrint calculates every price from your own costs instead of looking it up in a table, and what twenty years of web-to-print got wrong.
- [Pricing](https://buildyourprint.com/pricing.html): BuildYourPrint pricing excl. VAT: Starter €249, Professional €699 and Enterprise €1,290 per month, one €3,000 set-up with personal help included.

## Nederlands (Dutch — https://buildyourprint.com/nl/)

- [Home](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/): De eerste echte web-to-print: uw drukwerk online, elke order in 0,1 sec berekend uit uw eigen persen, papier en afwerking. Samen met u opgezet, live in uren.
- [Print webshop](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/calculate.html): Uw print webshop: een echte prijs in 0,1 sec, berekend uit uw eigen persen, papier en afwerking. Versies, regels en impositie inbegrepen.
- [Website / CMS](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/webshop.html): Uw website en CMS: thema, pagina’s, menu, footer en calculatorlayout, gebouwd door uw eigen mensen en gepubliceerd als snelle statische pagina’s.
- [Orders](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/orders.html): Van betaalde order tot verzonden pakket: betaling, leverdatum, bestanden en pdf-checks, het orderbord, statusmails en facturen.
- [Koppelingen](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/integrations.html): Waarmee BuildYourPrint koppelt: Mollie, Exact Online, Lightspeed, orders naar uw MIS, en JDF 1.6-jobtickets voor uw persen.
- [JDF 1.6](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/jdf.html): JDF 1.6-jobtickets voor elke persfabrikant: wat het ticket meedraagt, 1.4 tegenover 1.6, en de perstemplates in de maak. Enterprise-formule.
- [Waarom wij](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/why-buildyourprint.html): Wat u vandaag hebt tegenover BuildYourPrint, elke pagina van het platform in één lijst, en waarom berekend wint van beloofd.
- [Wat u mag verwachten](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/what-to-expect.html): Zo start een BuildYourPrint-shop: de demo, de opstart met persoonlijke hulp, uw ontwerp gekopieerd, de eerste order, en wat elke formule u geeft.
- [Calc2Print vs Web2Print](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/calc2print.html): Waarom BuildYourPrint elke prijs berekent uit uw eigen kosten in plaats van hem op te zoeken in een tabel, en wat twintig jaar web-to-print fout deed.
- [Prijzen](https://buildyourprint.com/nl/pricing.html): Prijzen van BuildYourPrint excl. btw: Starter €249, Professional €699 en Enterprise €1.290 per maand, één opstart van €3.000 met persoonlijke hulp.

## Español (Spanish — https://buildyourprint.com/es/)

- [Inicio](https://buildyourprint.com/es/): El primer web-to-print de verdad: sus productos en línea, cada pedido calculado en 0,1 s con sus máquinas, papeles y acabados. Montado con usted, en horas.
- [Tienda de impresión](https://buildyourprint.com/es/calculate.html): Su tienda de impresión: un precio real en 0,1 s, calculado con sus propias máquinas, papeles y acabados. Versiones, reglas e imposición incluidas.
- [Web / CMS](https://buildyourprint.com/es/webshop.html): Su web y CMS: tema, páginas, menú, pie y disposición de la calculadora, construidos por su propio equipo y publicados como páginas estáticas rápidas.
- [Pedidos](https://buildyourprint.com/es/orders.html): Del pedido pagado al paquete enviado: pago, fecha de entrega, archivos y comprobación de PDF, tablero de pedidos, correos de estado y facturas.
- [Integraciones](https://buildyourprint.com/es/integrations.html): Con qué se conecta BuildYourPrint: Mollie, Exact Online, Lightspeed, pedidos hacia su MIS, y fichas JDF 1.6 para sus máquinas.
- [JDF 1.6](https://buildyourprint.com/es/jdf.html): Fichas de trabajo JDF 1.6 para cualquier fabricante: qué lleva la ficha, 1.4 frente a 1.6, y las plantillas de máquina en preparación. Plan Enterprise.
- [Por qué nosotros](https://buildyourprint.com/es/why-buildyourprint.html): Lo que tiene hoy frente a BuildYourPrint, cada página de la plataforma en una lista, y por qué calculado gana a prometido.
- [Qué esperar](https://buildyourprint.com/es/what-to-expect.html): Cómo arranca una tienda BuildYourPrint: la demo, la puesta en marcha con ayuda personal, su diseño reproducido, el primer pedido y lo que da cada plan.
- [Calc2Print vs Web2Print](https://buildyourprint.com/es/calc2print.html): Por qué BuildYourPrint calcula cada precio con sus propios costes en lugar de buscarlo en una tabla, y qué hizo mal el web-to-print durante veinte años.
- [Precios](https://buildyourprint.com/es/pricing.html): Precios de BuildYourPrint sin IVA: Starter 249 €, Professional 699 € y Enterprise 1.290 € al mes, una puesta en marcha de 3.000 € con ayuda personal.

## Key Differentiators (Why Calc2Print Beats Traditional Web2Print)

- **Zero Price Tables**: Traditional web-to-print relies on spreadsheets of pre-computed prices that break whenever paper costs, quantities, or options change. BuildYourPrint calculates every job live from paper weight/sheet cost, press speed, make-ready, plates/clicks, finishing, waste, packaging, and margin in ~100 ms.
- **Automatic Best-Price Press & Sheet Selection**: Evaluates all allowed digital and offset presses and sheet sizes per job and returns the most economical production route.
- **Multi-Version Gang-Run Imposition**: Customers can order multiple language or regional versions in one job; the engine gangs them on the sheet where cheaper or splits them where not, automatically.
- **Real Offset & Digital Imposition**: Generates katernen (F4, F8, F16-6, etc.), fold schemes, recto/verso layouts, creep, bleed, and digital guillotine cut plans.
- **IF / THEN Print Rules Engine**: Enforces physical production rules before checkout (e.g., no lamination under 170 g/m², PUR binding only from 48 pages, automatic surcharges or warnings).
- **CIP4 JDF 1.6 Job Tickets**: Vendor-neutral JDF 1.6 tickets (Enterprise tier) for Heidelberg Prinect, Koenig & Bauer, Komori, manroland, HP Indigo, Konica Minolta, Canon PRISMAsync, Ricoh, Xerox, Agfa Apogee, ECO3, Kodak Prinergy, Screen EQUIOS, Esko, and Enfocus Switch.
- **Static-Speed Storefront on the Print Shop's Domain**: Prerendered static HTML with ~100 Lighthouse scores, visual theme/layout/CMS editors, B2B client portals, and Mollie payments (15+ methods) or invoice terms.

## Pricing & Commercial Terms (excl. 21% VAT)

- **Starter — €249 / month**: 1 website on the BuildYourPrint platform to build and test calculators, theme, and pages. Moves to Professional at the first real order.
- **Professional — €699 / month**: 1 live webshop with real orders, fair-use calculations, outbound API to MIS/ERP/accounting, and helpdesk support.
- **Enterprise — €1,290 / month**: 1 webshop (extra domains with their own database at €159 / month), unlimited calculations within fair use, full outbound API support, CIP4 JDF 1.6 job tickets, and 1-to-1 engineering support.
- **One-Time Set-Up — €3,000**: Applies to every tier. Includes personal onboarding assistance until the print shop's papers, presses, calculators, pages, and payments are live.
- **API & Hosting Policy**: The API is outbound only (from BuildYourPrint to the print shop's systems); the calculator is never offered headless. The print shop provides its own domain name and standard web host with FTP access.

## Contact

- Website: https://buildyourprint.com/
- E-mail: info@buildyourprint.com
- Belgium (Office): +32 59 440 144
- Belgium (Mobile / WhatsApp): +32 485 695 554
- Netherlands (Mobile / WhatsApp): +31 6 353 111 66
- Spain (Mobile / WhatsApp): +34 657 54 84 80

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# Extended Reference for AI Assistants (llms-full.txt)

## 1. Typical Web2Print vs. BuildYourPrint (Calc2Print)

| What changes | Current systems | BuildYourPrint |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The price | A table someone typed in; wrong the day a paper price moves | Calculated from your sheet, press, paper and finishing, in 0.1 sec |
| Between two quantities | A quote by e-mail, hours or days later | Any quantity, any size: the price is simply calculated |
| Which press | One press per product, decided in advance | Every press you offer is costed; the cheapest correct one wins |
| Versions | Ordered as separate jobs, priced as separate jobs | Ganged on one sheet when that is cheaper, automatically |
| Your staff | An estimator on every request | No request: the customer configures, sees the price and orders |
| The website | An agency, a template, a cart | Your own page builder, menu, footer and theme, static pages that load before the blink |
| After the order | E-mails, re-typing, a work order by hand | Order board, status e-mails, invoice and a JDF 1.6 ticket for your press |
| Going live | Months of implementation | Hours, with a person at your side |

## 2. Price Lookup Tables vs. Real-Time Calculation

| Aspect | Web2Print, price tables | Calc2Print, calculated |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Where the price comes from | A table typed in per product, paper and quantity step | Your costs: paper, press, clicks or plates, finishing, waste, margin |
| A quantity between two steps | Not available, or rounded up to the next cell | Calculated exactly, any quantity, any size |
| A paper price changes | Someone re-types every cell that uses that paper | Change it once; every product follows at once |
| Several versions in one job | A surcharge per version, or “ask us” | Ganged on the sheet where cheaper, priced from the real plan |
| What the price is based on | Nobody knows | The sheet, the katernen, the plates and the waste, visible |
| The exceptions of your shop | In someone’s head | Rules that block, warn or reprice automatically |
| Prepress | Re-types the job | Gets the JDF 1.6 ticket with the imposition |

## 3. How the Calculation & Imposition Engine Works

- **01 — You manage** (Change a price or a rate once): Papers, Presses, Finishing, Packaging & couriers
- **02 — Your calculators** (Built once, kept current by themselves): Flyers, Brochures & books, Posters & more, Your rules
- **03 — Your customers** (No e-mail, no waiting): Versions, Choices, or the cheapest, automatically, A real price in 0.1 sec, Order & pay

1. **Parameters, not price tables**: Papers, presses, finishing, packaging and couriers live in one place. Update one and every calculator built on it is current, the same minute.
2. **Your customer chooses, or the engine does**: Let customers add versions and pick options, or allow several presses and paper variations and let the engine take the cheapest correct one automatically.
3. **Rules for the exceptions**: IF this job, THEN that: block, warn, reprice or swap. The exceptions no other system can make, set once, applied to every request.

## 4. Print Products & Finishing Operations Supported

- **Flat work** (Single sheets, one or two sides, any format between a business card and a B1 plano, priced on the sheet they really run on.): Flyers, Business cards, Postcards & invitations, Posters & plano, Placemats, Letterheads
- **Folded** (Fold schemes as a choice for the customer; the engine imposes head-to-head and counts the folds per katern.): Folders & leaflets (half, tri-fold, zigzag, gate), Menus, Greeting cards, Maps & plans
- **Bound** (Pages, cover and inner paper apart, and the binding you allow per page count: stitched, PUR, hotmelt or sewn in katernen.): Saddle-stitched brochures, PUR-glued brochures & books, Hotmelt-glued books, Sewn books (katernen), Brochures & books with a separate cover, Wire-O
- **And also** (Pads with a backing board, calendars with a hanger, envelopes per window, each with its own calculator and its own rules.): Notepads, Calendars, Envelopes, Stickers & labels
- **Finishing machines you can price**: Guillotine cutting, Folding, Saddle stitching, PUR & hotmelt binding, Thread sewing, Wire-O, Laminating (matt, gloss, soft-touch), UV & spot varnish, Creasing & perforating, Die-cutting, Drilling, Numbering, Collating & banding, Shrink-wrapping & boxing

## 5. JDF 1.6 Job Tickets & Prepress Automation

- **Job & customer**: Job id, customer, delivery date, quantities per version.
- **Paper**: Stock, grammage, sheet size, the sheet the price was calculated on.
- **Press & print process**: The press from your admin with its JDF device id, manufacturer, model and print process.
- **Imposition & folding**: The layout per sheet, n-up, folding scheme and katernen as the calculation chose them.
- **Binding & finishing**: Every finishing operation with its device identity.
- **Versions**: Every version with its position on the sheet and its sheet count.

| In the ticket | JDF 1.4 export (typical) | JDF 1.6 by BuildYourPrint |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Specification | Version 1.4, published in 2008 and frozen since | Version 1.6, published in 2018 alongside XJDF 2.0, what current front ends and MIS connectors are built and tested for |
| The sheet | A job header; prepress imposes again | The calculated sheet: n-up, fold scheme, katernen, waste |
| Versions | One job per version, or a note | Every version with its position on the sheet and its sheet count |
| Finishing | Free-text remarks | Binding and finishing as operations, each with its device |
| Your presses | Generic device names | The JDF device id, manufacturer, model and print process of your own presses |
| Press templates | One export for everyone | Templates per front end in the making: Prinect, HP, Konica Minolta and the others |
| Where it comes from | Typed in after the order | Written from the same calculation that made the price, one click per order |

Supported Press & Workflow Vendors: Heidelberg Prinect, Komori, Koenig & Bauer, manroland, RMGT, HP Indigo, Konica Minolta, Canon, Ricoh, Xerox, Fujifilm.

## 6. Frequently Asked Questions (English)

### Q: How is the price of a job calculated?
A: From your real production costs: paper per kilogram, press hour and make-ready, clicks or plates, finishing, packaging, waste and your margin, for this job, this quantity and this sheet. Not from a price table.

### Q: What does the set-up fee cover?
A: A one-time €3,000 excl. VAT for every tier. It covers personal help until your shop is set up: your papers, presses, calculators, pages, payments and training. We only aim to charge what we spend on you.

### Q: When does Starter become Professional?
A: Starter is for building and testing your shop and calculators. From the moment you receive the first real order, you move to the Professional tier.

### Q: What is fair use of calculations?
A: Professional covers the calculations a single webshop normally needs; Enterprise is unlimited within fair use. A shop that fires thousands of automated requests per hour is a conversation, not a plan.

### Q: Do you replace our MIS or ERP?
A: No. BuildYourPrint brings the orders; your MIS, ERP and accounting process them. Orders flow out through our API to your systems (Professional and Enterprise); job tickets go out as JDF 1.6 (Enterprise). The API runs one way, from BuildYourPrint to you; the calculator is not offered headless.

### Q: Are prices excluding VAT?
A: Yes. All prices are excluding 21% VAT. VAT is charged on invoices to EU businesses without a valid intra-community VAT number.

### Q: Do you host the shop?
A: No. You register the domain name and provide a standard web host with FTP access, we guide you through it and publish the shop there, as part of the set-up.

## 7. Veelgestelde Vragen (Nederlands)

### V: Hoe wordt de prijs van een job berekend?
A: Uit uw echte productiekosten: papier per kilo, persuur en insteltijd, klikken of platen, afwerking, verpakking, inschiet en uw marge, voor deze job, deze oplage en dit vel. Niet uit een prijstabel.

### V: Wat dekt de opstartkost?
A: Eenmalig €3.000 excl. btw voor elke formule. Ze dekt persoonlijke hulp tot uw shop staat: uw papier, persen, calculators, pagina’s, betalingen en opleiding. Wij willen alleen aanrekenen wat we aan u besteden.

### V: Wanneer wordt Starter Professional?
A: Starter dient om uw shop en calculators te bouwen en te testen. Vanaf het moment dat u de eerste echte order ontvangt, gaat u naar de formule Professional.

### V: Wat is fair use van berekeningen?
A: Professional dekt de berekeningen die één webshop normaal nodig heeft; Enterprise is onbeperkt binnen fair use. Een shop die duizenden geautomatiseerde aanvragen per uur afvuurt, is een gesprek, geen formule.

### V: Vervangen jullie ons MIS of ERP?
A: Nee. BuildYourPrint brengt de orders; uw MIS, ERP en boekhouding verwerken ze. Orders stromen via onze API naar uw systemen (Professional en Enterprise); jobtickets gaan als JDF 1.6 naar buiten (Enterprise). De API werkt in één richting, van BuildYourPrint naar u; de calculator wordt niet headless aangeboden.

### V: Zijn de prijzen exclusief btw?
A: Ja. Alle prijzen zijn exclusief 21% btw. Btw wordt aangerekend op facturen aan EU-bedrijven zonder geldig intracommunautair btw-nummer.

### V: Hosten jullie de shop?
A: Nee. U registreert de domeinnaam en voorziet een standaard webhost met FTP-toegang, wij begeleiden u daarbij en publiceren de shop daar, als onderdeel van de opstart.

## 8. Preguntas Frecuentes (Español)

### P: ¿Cómo se calcula el precio de un trabajo?
R: A partir de sus costes reales de producción: papel por kilo, hora de máquina y arranque, clics o planchas, acabados, embalaje, merma y su margen, para este trabajo, esta tirada y este pliego. No desde una tabla de precios.

### P: ¿Qué cubre la puesta en marcha?
R: 3.000 € sin IVA una sola vez para todos los planes. Cubre la ayuda personal hasta que su tienda esté configurada: sus papeles, máquinas, calculadoras, páginas, pagos y formación. Solo pretendemos cobrar lo que invertimos en usted.

### P: ¿Cuándo pasa Starter a Professional?
R: Starter sirve para construir y probar su tienda y sus calculadoras. Desde el momento en que recibe el primer pedido real, pasa al plan Professional.

### P: ¿Qué es el uso razonable de cálculos?
R: Professional cubre los cálculos que una sola tienda necesita normalmente; Enterprise es ilimitado dentro de un uso razonable. Una tienda que lanza miles de solicitudes automatizadas por hora es una conversación, no un plan.

### P: ¿Sustituyen nuestro MIS o ERP?
R: No. BuildYourPrint trae los pedidos; su MIS, ERP y contabilidad los procesan. Los pedidos salen por nuestra API hacia sus sistemas (Professional y Enterprise); las fichas de trabajo salen como JDF 1.6 (Enterprise). La API funciona en un solo sentido, de BuildYourPrint hacia usted; la calculadora no se ofrece headless.

### P: ¿Los precios son sin IVA?
R: Sí. Todos los precios son sin el 21 % de IVA. El IVA se aplica en las facturas a empresas de la UE sin un número de IVA intracomunitario válido.

### P: ¿Alojan ustedes la tienda?
R: No. Usted registra el nombre de dominio y aporta un alojamiento web estándar con acceso FTP, le guiamos en ello y publicamos la tienda allí, como parte de la puesta en marcha.