About the Printing Industry Pack

The Printing Industry Pack allows you to estimate the price of a print job based on a variety of factors, such as weight of the paper, dimensions, number of sections, etc. All relevant factors can be accounted for when using the Printing Estimating Workbench form to build a routing and bill of material for an estimate print job.

New printing estimates can be created, existing quotes can be copied, or templates can be used to produce a print quote price for your customer. If they approve the quoted price, you can create an estimate print job with operations and materials based on the factors specified on the Printing Estimating Workbench form. You can create custom formulas which allow you calculate factors such as paper consumption, material usage, and operation setup and run times. You can tailor the estimate job as needed for each customer, then, when the estimate job is ready, you can copy it to a job where it is scheduled for production.

In order to view and use the forms in the Printing Industry Pack, you must purchase and enable the PP Ind Pack license.

The Printing Industry Pack includes these features:

You can create templates that can be reused with some variations for many different print quotes.
You can create formulas for common printing tasks.
You can use the Printing Estimate Workbench to select a template, specify your cost/price requirements, and use formulas to calculate an print quote price. You can also copy the structure and information of a similar, existing quote into the Workbench to create your new quote.
After you create an estimate job for the quotation, you can display the cost roll-up using the formula calculations. You can then compare this price to the original print quote estimate.
You can analyze material usage and estimate the quantity of materials used for printing, such as ink and oil, based on the Print Quote Price calculations.
You can quickly calculate the paper consumed by operations on a printing estimate job.
You can determine operation setup time and run time for your resources, based on the Print Quote requirements. These values are used on the Estimate Job Operations form.
You can process batch productions by creating job material transactions, as well as generate unposted job transactions.