Built on a working printer's floor.
Paper size against print size with gutters, giving UPs, giving farmas, checked against the golden tables the trade already uses. This is the part generic software cannot do, and it is why a printer switches.
What printing floors fight with every day.
- Farmas and UPs are counted by hand and from memory.
- A/B and C/D printing for book blocks, with no system tracking any of it.
- No proper plate store, so plates get made twice, go missing, and nobody bills for a reprint.
- Paper arrives in reels and leaves in reams and nobody tracks the conversion.
- The cover is forgotten while the block is being printed.
- Padded diaries come out thicker than the spec, so box sizes are guessed.
- A book is pages plus cover, planned and made separately, with nothing tying them into one order.
Set up for your trade.
- Print planning: paper size against print size with gutters, giving UPs, giving farmas, checked against the golden tables the trade already uses.
- A/B and C/D sheet work, work-and-turn and work-and-tumble, out of the box.
- Manual plan mode, for the job that does not want the optimiser's answer.
- A plate store that treats plates as real tooling with a full life: minting, mounting, reuse, wear, take-back, reprint charges and plate revenue by client.
- Plate slips and plate contracts, with plate sizes and imposition keys enforced, so a plate is only reused on a job it actually fits.
- A paper store: paper types, mills, finishes, papers, reels in metres and sheets in reams, with conversion tracked as its own register.
- Pages and cover as separate parts of one order, each with its own paper, machine, stages and approval.
- Job cards printed from the system, with selectable templates and the arithmetic already done.
- Box sizes that allow for the foam in padded diaries.
- The reports a planner actually opens: farma summary, print plan register, plate register, plate revenue by client, paper conversion register and lane spec conflicts.
This is the trade we are building Prodman ERP with, on a working floor, against live orders.
Questions about printing.
It does more than job tickets. Prodman ERP runs the whole job, from the approved proof to the dispatched box, and the floor actually enters work against it. Pre-quote estimating is the one MIS piece not here yet, and it is on the roadmap.
Paper size against print size with gutters, giving UPs, giving farmas, checked against the golden tables your planner already uses. Farma counting is printing physics, not a setting somebody has to get right.
It goes into the plate store as tooling, with its own life: mounted, reused, worn, taken back. Sizes and imposition keys are enforced so it is only reused on a job it fits, and reprint charges and plate revenue by client are reportable.
Yes. A book splits into pages and cover as separate parts of one order. Each has its own paper, machine, stages and approval, and they come back together at dispatch.
Stop putting out fires. Start seeing the floor.
Book a 30-minute demo and we will show you Prodman ERP on a factory like yours. We take only a few factories each quarter, because we set up every one of them on site, by hand.
Taking on a limited group this quarter