Commercial printing managers have many responsibilities that require



their time and attention. There is no time to waste in managing

employees, paperwork, production, equipment, materials, workflow, or

customers. Good time management will allow the manager to address all

of these areas effectively. Use of PowerQuote printing estimating and

management software allows managers to be more informed and

effective in less time.

PowerQuote is much more than a tool to accurately estimate printing

costs. The system has features to help with each time consuming

management area plus sales, accounting and long range planning. It's a

software application written from the ground up specifically for the

printing industry, making it easy to use, fast and efficient. PowerQuote

works crossplatform and can run on Mac OS X, Windows XP, Vista or any

networked combination of those operating systems.

Spend less time estimating by using PowerQuote's accurate price

calculation ability. The software's interface guides you through the

estimating process to insure nothing is missed. It accurately calculates

the production requirements of a print job with minimal user input. For

reorder jobs, the previously used specifications can be instantly located

and used to create new estimates or job tickets. The system uses job

specifications to calculate prices, create written quotes for the customer,

and print detailed job tickets for the production staff. The written quote is

easily created and makes a professional presentation. PowerQuote users

win more work with this complete, flexible and effective written quote.

This system saves time managing customer quote requests and improves

customer service. A ?Price List? function calculates 60 prices in a fraction

of a second to dramatically reduce estimating time for complicated bid

jobs. PowerQuote users win more jobs and up sell to higher quantities

when they respond more quickly and give a better quote presentation to

their customers.

PowerQuote saves time in production. The schedule report allows you to

sequence jobs to save washups and setups. It lists jobs by department

and within department, by due date. The report shows the press time,

paper, and gripper width so you can quickly determine how best to

sequence the jobs. Automatically gathering and presenting this

information in this way allows the manager to make good job planning

decisions quickly. This aspect of the software alone, provides good return

on investment. For example if a small 2 color press costs $75/hr and a

color washup takes 20 minutes, you save $25 when you sequence jobs to

save a washup. Save just 3 washups per week for a yearly total of 50 hours

of press time or $3750!

PowerQuote's job ticket saves time and eliminates mistakes by providing

clear instructions in a sentence format. This is available only with

PowerQuote. A standalone job ticket or a job SAVe? ticket with special

features to reduce production mistakes is available. Both job tickets

provide estimated production times so employees know how much time

is allowed for a specific operation such as plate making or presswork.

Giving the employees a goal, encourages productivity.

Material management takes less time with the help of PowerQuote. The

system accumulates paper requirements for jobs in production and

displays them on the paper order report. It shows which job is linked to

each paper and provides the information you need to order cut sheets or

in larger sheets to cut in-house. The paper order report makes checking a

paper delivery or verifying a paper invoice quick and easy. PowerQuote

also saves money on paper by accurately calculating spoilage and

makeready. Ordering too much paper is an unnecessary expense but

ordering too little paper creates shortages, reprints, and missed

deadlines. PowerQuote lets you set spoilage and makeready guidelines to

calculate accurate paper requirements that saves on both types of

expenses.

These are some of the key features of PowerQuote that improve

effectiveness and reduce the time spent managing employees,

paperwork, production, equipment, materials, workflow, and customers.

The time saved can be used in other management areas or just to

improve quality of life.