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NEWSFLASH: Announcing the PrestoConnect account manager web site! (11-14-08)

Peter R. — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:29:54 GMT

Presto Services Inc. is today announcing to the PrestoPlace community a major enhancement to the Presto Mail service. This enhancement affects all Presto account managers and has already been activated as an automatic upgrade to all accounts. Note: all existing Presto features are still available, the enhancements add new functionality to the system. Presto account managers will now have access to the all new “PrestoConnect,” account manager web site. PrestoConnect is a central online hub that enables ten powerful new functions: 1. Pre-scheduled message delivery - messages can now be scheduled for delivery at a later date and time. This can be a great time saver, allowing you to create a number of messages in one sitting that can be delivered on days and times of your choosing. 2. Activity reporting - PrestoConnect allows you to monitor email traffic that comes from approved senders, seeing when they were sent, and from whom. The PrestoConnect home page gives a “dashboard” view of scheduled and delivered communications. Plus, a communications manager lets you view delivery schedule and history. However, all email contents from approved senders remains private. 3. Delivery confirmation - All approved senders (including you) will receive notifications to your email...

CALL FOR INTERVIEWEES: from D.C./Virginia/Maryland

Peter R. — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:46:11 GMT

Dear PrestoPlace Members: Presto has been contacted by an award-winning, nationally recognized radio broadcaster looking to do a story on Presto. They are asking us at Presto to provide them with the name of a Presto user and their daughter or granddaughter in the Washington D.C./Virginia/Maryland area. I thought I would throw this out to the PrestoPlace community and ask for your assistance in providing a nice viewpoint into how Presto has changed one family's life positively. I'm sure this will not be too much of an intrusion since it is radio. Would any of you please help us out by agreeing to be interviewed? It makes a big difference to everyone here at Presto. If you are interested in helping, please send me a PrestoPlace private message with your name, email address and phone number plus the name and presto address of your Printing Mailbox user. Of course, you are not committing to anything until you have more information. I'll be glad to tell anyone who contacts me more about this opportunity. Thanks, in advance, to anyone who is willing to help. DEADLINE: Please respond by Monday, May 19, 2008 Thanks again, Peter Radsliff, VP Marketing -- Presto Services,...

NEWSFLASH: You can now preview Presto Mail! (4-29-08)

Peter R. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:18:36 GMT

PrestoPlace members, you heard it here first! Introducing " Presto Mail Preview " -- a new feature for current Presto users and people wanting to learn more about Presto before buying. Presto Mail Preview allows anyone to see how an email they send will be delivered to the owner of a Presto Printing Mailbox. This is especially helpful if you want to see how attached photos will be formatted on the page or how PDF documents will print out. HOW IT WORKS: It couldn't be simpler. Just compose an email and attach a photo or PDF document if you like. Address the email to preview@presto.com and click "send." In a minute, you will receive an email from Presto Bulletins with a link to your document. Click the link and you will be taken to a Web page that shows exactly how that email will print out of a Printing Mailbox. SENDING BEAUTIFUL PRESTO MAIL: Presto Mail Preview is a great way to try out the Presto Style mail template feature which lets you choose how a specific Presto Mail will print out. You can select from dozens of pre-formatted mail templates. All you have to do is include a special...

Martha LOVES Presto!

Peter R. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:09:08 GMT

On December 19, 2007, Presto was featured on The Martha Stewart Show. And, the PrestoInsider (yours truly) was on-air in addition to the HP Printing Mailbox. Martha's supervising producer Deb Savo has been using Presto with her parents for about a year. She tells her story to the audience and we all get to see her darling son Julian. Martha talks about how she loves Presto. If any of you PrestoPlace members would like to see a video clip of the show segment, just visit: http://tinyurl.com/2opmd7 Note: We at Presto were all sad to hear that Martha Stewart's Mom passed away in December of 2007.

Top ten reasons to buy Presto as a surprise gift for your parents this Holiday

Peter R. — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:46:07 GMT

1. Letting you still contact Mom & Dad when you don’t have time for a 30 minute call 2. Eliminating excuses from your siblings for not staying in touch with Mom & Dad 3. Sending photos of their grandkids so you have something to talk about 4. Making a list of dates and events so Mom & Dad don’t forget 5. Creating a PDF of Google map directions so they don’t get lost 6. Forwarding an authoritative article that proves to Dad that you were right all along 7. Giving the gift of bragging rights via same-day photos of grandkids doing something spectacular 8. Discovering that Presto has twenty-one 5-star user reviews on Amazon.com 9. Making your folks the envy of all their friends 10. Finding the perfect gift for your parents

NEWSFLASH: Presto now supports PDF

Peter R. — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:11:04 GMT

Exclusive news for PrestoPlace members: Presto opens up the world of information to HP Printing Mailbox users. Beginning around midnight, 10/19/07, the Presto Service added a new feature: the ability to deliver Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) email attachments through the Presto Service to owners of HP Printing Mailboxes. This is a significant advance for Presto users because of two reasons. 1) Much of the information found on the Internet is saved as PDF-format documents. Those documents include articles, news pieces, research papers, product information, government services, and much, much more. Authorized senders can now download PDF documents from web sites and attach them to emails being delivered to HP Printing Mailboxes. 2) Many of the most popular computer applications now have the ability to create PDF-format documents. This functionality is either included as an option in the "Save-As" function, or more commonly, in the "Print" function. Pretty much any application that can print a document can "print" a PDF document (it's called "print" but really, it saves a copy of the document on your hard drive in PDF format). Apple Macintosh computers have this functionality built in, so that any document you create in a word processor, spreadsheet,...