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Printing companies throughout the United States and Canada have discovered the benefits of Profectus' products and services. Our customers range in size from 10 employees to 3,000 employees multi-plant companies. In fact, many of the Who’s Who of the Fortune 100 and 500 printing companies use Profectus.

Our customers represent every segment of the printing industry including commercial printers, digital, wide-format, inkjet, in-plant operations, packaging converters, folding cartons, labels, publication printers, book printers, screen printers, pre-press trade, bindery trade, sign printers, business forms printers, management software suppliers, and printing industry associations.

Executives, owners, CEO’s, CIO’s, CFO’s, Presidents, and managers charged with improving their organization come to Profectus.
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Customer Reviews

Learn how Cost Rates Advisor is helping printing organizations boost profits.

Total Rating 4.8 / 5 stars based on 93 customer reviews


5 Stars
Key component for continuing to grow and profit

5 / 5 stars
Cost Rates Advisor gives us a clear picture of our costs and supports our pricing strategy. It’s a key component for continuing to grow and profit.
5 Stars
Why re-invent the wheel?

5 / 5 stars
Why re-invent the wheel? Cost Rates Advisor is so much easier than my old spreadsheet. All the formulas are already included. Plus, it does a whole lot more."
5 Stars
Best on the market!

5 / 5 stars
Best on the market! Love that it's in the cloud, no software to install, and I have access from any computer. It was very easy to learn. The owner of the printing company likes the reports. Buy this and you won't regret it!"
5 Stars
Increases sales and profits within a few months

5 / 5 stars
We noticed an increase in sales and profit margins within a few months of setting up our BHRs and using them in our EFI estimating software."
5 Stars
So easy, we update BHRs every few months.

5 / 5 stars
Updating our rates was such a big ordeal we only did it every 3 or more years using spreadsheets. CostRatesAdvisor is so easy; we now update them every few months."
4 Stars
Benchmarks our costs against other companies.

4 / 5 stars
It's the only software that can benchmark our costs against other companies, and tell us where we are effective, and where we need to cut costs.
5 Stars
Worked perfectly.

5 / 5 stars
Worked perfectly. I was able to import my info and get BHRs the same day I signed up."
5 Stars
Gave more confidence in estimates and cost sheets.

5 / 5 stars
Gave our managers, salespeople, and estimators more confidence in estimates, price markups, and costing reports."
4 Stars
much easier and faster then spreadsheets.

4 / 5 stars
Very flexible and comprehensive. We used to use spreadsheets which were very time consuming. This much easier and faster."
quality-printing
How Outdated Cost Rates Almost Put Quality Printing Out of Business.

Inaccurate budgeted hourly rates (BHRs) can put a printing company out of business as one company found out the hard way. Quality Printing* is a sheetfed, digital, and large format printing company with 75 employees located in the Midwest United States.

The budgeted hourly cost rates they used for estimating, pricing, and job costing was indiscriminately updated over the years. When they finally updated their rates...
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