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 the weight of the paper, the length, the width, the number of sections, the number of holes, die cutting and packaging requirements, and the number of colors. All of these factors can be taken into account when you use the Printing Estimating Workbench and its associated forms 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. When the customer approves the quoted price, you can create an estimate print job with operations and materials based on the factors provided in the Printing Estimating Workbench. Industry standard calculations are used to determine paper consumption, material usage, and operation setup and run times. You can tailor the estimate job as needed for each customer. When the estimate job is ready, you copy it to a (regular) job where it is scheduled for production.

In order to view and use the forms in the Printing Industry Pack, you must be a licensed SyteLinePP user.

The Printing Industry Pack includes these features:

You can create templates that can be reused with some variations for many different print quotes.
The pack includes many standard printing industry formulas, but you can also use the Formula Workbench to create and save custom formulas.
You can use the Printing Workbench to select a template, specify your cost/price requirements, and use industry standards and formulas to calculate an estimated Print Quote Price. Or you can 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 quoted job, you can display the cost roll-up using the system's standard calculations. You can then compare this price to the original Print Quote Price 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. Paper is not part of the bill of materials on a printing estimate job, so paper usage is calculated separately.
You can determine operation setup time and run time for your machinery, based on the Print Quote requirements. These values are used on the Estimate Job Operations form.

About the Printing Industry Pack

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