Stop losing packaging deals to your own quoting process.

Every manual packaging quote costs you 30 to 45 minutes and the deal you lost while calculating. GelatoConnect Estimator quotes packaging in 15 seconds using your costs, your dies, and your margin rules.
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By the numbers

Real outcomes from print shops on GelatoConnect Estimator.

15 sec
to generate a packaging estimate
<5 min
to customer-ready quote, end to end
€700K
annual cost savings at Ink n’Art
65%
reduction in manual quoting work
200+
estimates per day at ESP Colour
<0.35%
error rate on AI-generated estimates

What Estimator covers

Packaging is not too complex. Your tools are too simple.

Estimator handles every packaging format, finish and substrate combination through one engine. Six pricing models. 300+ configurable parameters. Your data.

Folding cartons

Food, beverage, retail and consumer packaging. Litho, flexo and digital routes priced from one engine.

Corrugated

E-commerce mailers, point-of-sale, secondary packaging. Single- and double-wall fluting handled.

Rigid boxes

Premium retail, gifting, electronics. Multi-piece structures, ribbon inserts and window patches priced in.

Labels

Narrow-web, sheet-fed and roll-fed. Substrate and finishing variants priced through the same logic.

Finishing & embellishment

Foil stamping, embossing, debossing, spot UV, varnish, die-cutting, scoring, glue lap, window patch.

Substrate library

Your dies, your boards, your paperweights. The engine reads from your library, not industry defaults.

Ink n'Art using GelatoConnect AI Estimator for packaging quotes

CUSTOMER STORY · INK N'ART

€700K saved 

EBITDA up from 3% to 13%. Plus 14-product packaging quotes that used to take 1.5 to 2 hours, now generated by pasting an email into Estimator.

"For two years we were stuck at the same revenue. It wasn't demand — we just couldn't quote fast enough. AI Estimator changed that, and we're now projecting 30% growth in 2026."

Ink n'Art · Packaging printer, Sweden

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The engine

Six pricing models. Your packaging data. Customer-ready in under 5 minutes.

Trained on millions of real print transactions with 10 AI models. 300+ configurable parameters across machines, substrates, finishing and logistics. Every estimate uses the same logic, the same margin rules, the same data.

6
pricing models, every packaging combination
300+
configurable parameters for machines, substrates, finishing
10
AI models working together on every estimate
<5 min
to customer-ready quote, end to end

Interactive demo

See a packaging quote happen, on your screen.

Paste a real RFQ. Watch the engine generate a packaging estimate in 15 seconds. No sales call, no form, no waiting.

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Industry research

The data behind the urgency.

Speed and automation are not opinions. They are buyer behaviour and the industry response, evidenced across two decades of independent research.

Companies that contact a lead within 5 minutes are 21x more likely to qualify it than those waiting 30 minutes.

Source: MIT / InsideSales Lead Response Management Study

77% of print providers are automating workflows. 88% plan capital investments in automation.

Source: NAPCO Research 2024 Commercial Print Trends, via Canon Production Print

Print industry research report being reviewed in a print shop

See Estimator pricing.

Plans from €1,000/month, billed annually. 14-day free trial, no credit card.

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Frequently asked questions

Packaging quoting, answered

Does Estimator handle folding cartons and corrugated together?+

Yes. Folding cartons, corrugated mailers, rigid boxes and labels are all priced through the same engine using six pricing models. Your team does not switch tools between substrate types.

Can Estimator match my die library?+

Yes. The engine reads from your die library, your board library and your paperweights, not industry defaults. Quote generation references your actual stock and tooling on every estimate.

What about embellishments like foil, emboss, spot UV?+

Each finishing operation is a configurable parameter with its own cost loading. Foil stamping, embossing, debossing, spot UV, varnish, die-cutting, scoring and glue lap are all priced in. Add new ones via the parameter library.

Does it support flexo and litho both?+

Both, plus digital. The pricing engine routes the same packaging job across print methods so you can compare cost paths and pick the right press for the run.

Can my sales team quote packaging without an estimator?+

Yes. Sales and customer service teams generate estimates independently. Senior estimators move to reviewing quotes, handling exceptions and growing customer relationships rather than doing arithmetic.

How long until we go live with our packaging pricing models?+

Most packaging customers are live in days, not weeks. Calibration loads your actual cost structure into the engine; once calibrated, every estimate uses your data.

What the industry research says

In NAPCO Research's 2025 survey of growth-leading print firms, 84% reported active investment in workflow automation to streamline operations, reduce labour costs, and accelerate job turnaround.