Print Job Quote Calculator

Print Job Quote Calculator is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for a small digital or offset print shop. You enter what a sheet of each paper costs, how many pieces of each finished size fit on a sheet, what each machine charges per side, and what each finishing step costs. A quote line then works out the sheets to print including wastage, the cost, your mark-up and a selling price. Quotes print as a clean A4 page for the customer, and a separate costing sheet shows your own cost and margin.

The problem it removes: Each quote is worked out by hand or from memory, so the same job gets two prices depending on who answers the phone. Wastage and finishing are forgotten, and nobody sees the margin until the job is done. This app keeps one rate table, does the sheet and cost sums the same way every time, and refuses a line priced below your cost unless you allow it.

What is inside:

• Rate tables: paper by sheet size and cost per sheet, finished sizes with pieces per sheet, machines with a rate per side, finishing steps priced per sheet, per piece or per job
• Quote lines that work out sheets with wastage, paper cost, print cost, finishing cost, mark-up, price and margin
• A check that the paper sheet size matches the layout, and that a line is not priced below cost
• Quotes with delivery, discount, VAT at the rate you enter, validity date, status and a ready WhatsApp follow-up
• Printable customer quote and an internal costing sheet that shows cost and margin per line
• Desk page: quotes waiting, value waiting, sent quotes past their date and lines under your target margin
• Example data you can load in one click, a Start here guide and an Honest limits panel
• JSON backup and restore, CSV export, and CSV import with a check of every row before anything is added

Who it is for: owners and counter staff of small print shops, digital print studios, copy centres and sign makers who quote flyers, cards, brochures, posters and booklets from a rate list and want every quote priced the same way.

What it is NOT: It does not lay out a sheet for you: you enter how many pieces fit on a sheet after checking your own layout. It does not know your real machine wastage, bleed or trimming, does not do large format by square metre, does not send quotes by itself, and the quote wording is sample text. VAT is a rate you enter. It is not an accounting system. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice, it is not connected to any government system, bank or messaging service, and it does not file or send anything by itself. UAE e-invoicing is not part of it.

Your data stays on this device in your browser. Back it up with Export; clearing browser data loses it otherwise.

Verified by us: scripted tests in Chromium (190 checks through the real screens: adding, editing and deleting records in every table, required-field messages, backup then clear then restore, CSV export then import, keyboard order, print layouts rendered to PDF, no horizontal scrolling at 375 and 1280 pixels, no network requests) and an independent recalculation by a separately written Python evaluator of 1823 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Safari engine (WebKit): smoke test passed. Not tested: Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).