Avanquest USA created the Design & Print Application as a desktop publishing software designed for an individual’s or a company’s marketing needs. Users can create customized newsletters, letterheads, business cards, brochures, and the other marketing documents on their computers. In addition, it can open images in multiple formats including .tiff, .img, .bmp, .pcx, and .jpeg.
Design & Print Application has five hundred graphic typestyles, over eight thousand default background templates, one thousand new fonts, and a wide color palette for users to utilize and choose from. They can also various special text and image effects such as warp, blur, transparency, gradient fills, emboss, and drop shadow. It also allows for basic control over letter tracking and direct table creation within the program. Should users prefer default templates for convenience, there are over seventy-five matching sets and colors from brochures to business cards.
Once the finished files are ready to be printed, printer alignment tool feature make one-sided and double-sided printing possible depending on the type of publication created. For soft copies, Design & Print can convert files to PDF format for quick previewing and sharing. Once in PDF format, users can e-mail them using the built-in address book and mail merge features.