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Book Publishing Industry First
PrintStream
offers the book publishing industry a first: a
comprehensive enterprise wide business and production
management software system specifically designed
for the unique business challenges and opportunities
of Book Publishers. Streamline Solutions, a leading
software development firm, has partnered with successful
book publishers in the United States and Canada
to bring a fully featured Book Estimating capability
to the PrintStream software suite.
PrintStream
has been a leader in providing fully featured ERP
systems to the Print, Direct Mail and Fulfillment
industries. With PrintStream Book, the streamlined
efficiency of a single end-to-end management system
is now available to Book Publishers as well.
PrintStream
Book offers a complete book estimating solution.
The feature rich design addresses everyday process
planning including multiple page counts, signature
management, case making estimate processes, selecting
the best imposition for the page count, tracking
binding sequences, scheduling and tracking book
components, efficient "just in time" materials
purchase scheduling, efficient carton packing plans,
and applying trim groups for best practices. PrintStream
provides your organization with the benefits and
efficiencies of a fully integrated system. Now
estimates can be turned into orders, jobs can be
tracked and costs applied, outside purchases made
and associated with the job and inventory checked
as part of work order entry. Billing is handled
as a continuation, not a separate part of the process
with a full range of management and financial reports
that allow analysis of the business result.
With
PrintStream Book, your staff will no longer be
required to maintain multiple stand alone applications
with competing customer files, schedules and status
reporting.
PrintStream
Book… efficiency changes everything.
Features
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Supports Multi-Plant Estimating capabilities,
estimate becomes a specification layer which can be
calculated on multiple plants within the same estimate
to view production efficiencies by plant |
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Supports 6 quantities per estimate with
up to 4 different page counts on the same estimate |
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Supports multiple bind styles on the
same estimate, of which each can have 4 page counts
and up to 6 quantities |
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Supports multiple versions of the same
bind style or different bind styles on the same quote |
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Compares all running combinations for
each component and automatically calculates most cost
efficient impositions for each component on the estimate |
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Calculates accurate Spine Bulk, Text
Bulk, and Total Book Bulk for all bind styles and page
counts on the estimate |
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Calculates standard and custom carton
specifications based on individual customer packing
profile parameters based on ship to address |
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Supports user defined price breakouts
that can be customized to break out costs right down
to the component level or even to the Make Ready and
Run level by page count, bind style or version |
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Supports customer supplied components,
both printed and non-printed. Allows for finishing
processes to be applied to supplied items, and has
full integration to our Inventory module |
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Calculates freight for each quantity
and page count for multiple freight destinations based
on ship to zip code; includes selections for additional
freight add-on's to each destination |
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Customer account status can be viewed
as part of quote entry process |
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Supports multiple plate making operations
for each press |
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Supports entry of Special Order Papers |
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Displays on screen layouts for all components
on estimate with option to print out layouts |
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Shipping module integrates with Clippership
for passing on shipping requirements and tracking of
shipments including actual shipping costs |
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Prepress processes are formula based
and will automatically calculate prepress costs based
on number of pages and colors |
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Offers the ability to change the quantity
on any component on the estimate |
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Supports complete override capabilities
for any component including the ability to force a
press and template |
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Templates allow all margin types to be
added for all bind styles |
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Supports case making for three piece
covers on Hard Bound estimates |
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Supports Requested Schedules on estimates,
integrates with scheduling module to provide customer
with accurate job processing dates |
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Supports up to 99 versions on each quote |
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Includes security features to control
who has access to enter estimates, create job specifications,
and create orders |
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Supports unique sections being printed
on the same press sheet; bindery is automatically calculated
on total number of unique sections |
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True manufacturing waste calculation
down to component processing level, which is back calculated
into the press run for each component; waste is also
tracked right down to the bind style level on each
component |
