Marlasoft's most recent development is the release of OpenPrint, a completely rewritten and modernized version of PrintChef, which is capable of working with all of your existing PrintChef print recipes. It has a simpler user interface, easier registration, and more functionality than PrintChef.

Marlasoft's first success for MindGate was to develop Riyadh Airport operations software in Saudi Arabia; and subsequently, we developed the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or Star Wars) EV88 defense software- where we made a real "War Games"- not fake like the movie. Some of our products are still used today! In 1990, defense cutbacks refocused our attention to commercial software, and we turned to the Mac, and then in 1995 to Windows.

From the introduction of our first Mac product LaserMerge in June 1992, to the latest version of PrintChef in 2016, and now OpenPrint in 2021, we have been dedicated to the production of top quality, friendly, and extremely powerful solutions for banking, hotel management, check printing, utility billing, grade reports, mass mailing (U.S. PAVE certified) with CASS certification, and a host of other products that solve every kind of printing problem a customer might have. In fact, since its introduction in late 1998, our base product PrintChef has only had 7 customers whose problems were so complex that we could not solve them.

While we have good ideas, not everything we do becomes a marketable product. Through the late 90's and early 2000, we worked with HP and Stamps.com to deliver print-to-mail systems, print-your-own stamps, binding machines and printing solutions only suited to our print engine. Today, Stamps.com uses a different delivery mechanism, and HP never did complete its "BindJet" laser binding system for customer delivery. We were disappointed needless to say! Going our separate way, in 2012, we introduced MailHouse, our mass-mailing adjunct to PrintChef and now to OpenPrint... introducing the concept of printing-to-mass-mail!

Lately, we have turned our attention to the next generation of PrintChef called OpenPrint. Additionally, we have developed for the worldwide web real estate web sites, virtual touring systems, iPhone and Android apps, and web cards. To get a better understanding of the road we have taken and the plans for our future products, please feel free to examine our "Solutions" and "Timeline" pages.

We are now located in Florida having recently moved from the quiet hills of Tennessee where we also worked for high-technology agencies like those in Huntsville's SDC (strategic defense command) and NASA's space and rocket center, and for Tullahoma's Arnold Air Force base. High tension work for sure, but since we were also located 20 miles from Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg, we knew how to play as hard as we worked! After 35 years, we have recently moved our software development company Marlasoft to Florida, where we will continue to support all of our MindGate products and develop new sofware to make your printing easier.

As MindGate, we started in a garage like most Macintosh and Windows companies. Our software stability and lack of bugs is largely due to Martha Scarbury, with a masters in mathematics; and who is now Marlasoft's President; and an individual with an uncanny ability to break any piece of software. She is responsible for the proven stability of our products and their endurance over two decades.

Our founder, Lawrence Beyl, with a Ph.D. in Physics and sofware development, has stepped out of MindGate's presidency to run Marlasoft development; and we expect this team to generate new and efficient solutions. Our software was the principle reason for our success in the defense industry.

Our focus as a company is to provide solutions that "just work".
And, while we have the best support team in the industry, generally our solutions just don't need it. In fact, most of the time our customers contact us to register, get a solution for their printing, or to finally purchase. Our "bug report" ledger is very thin!

But, even with these formidable talents, occasionally a bug will get by us or we may miss a market opportunity! And, this is where Marlasoft stands apart from other companies- we actually listen to our users! And, unlike other software companies, Marlasoft distributes most of its upgrades free-of-charge... that's because we don't expect you to pay for our mistakes or oversights!

Please feel free to investigate our solutions, contact us for questions, or try some or our web-based stuff. For 35 years, we have kept the same people, providing solutions to Mac and Windows since their inceptions. And, we expect to keep up this tradition at our new location in Florida mostly because the web has made us mobile. We CAN help you with your printing solution... that is what we do!

At MindGate, we said printing was a science- that is why our products work with every application and every printer. Our motto for Marlasoft is that printing is an art and beautiful, but the reality is that what we do is both an art and science. Check us out!