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The following data will only be intelligible to existing users!
Job structure changes. Although the fundamentals of Printpak remain substantially unchanged, one important area to understand is the new job structure.
· In previous versions, the jobs and estimates were a series of job parts (part A, part B etc) and the text from the first part of a job was used for estimates and invoices etc. Now we have changed things so that there is a job header for the entire job, with a title and its own text, which is used for estimates and invoices etc.
· Within the job there will be one or more parts (marked A, B, C etc).
· Delivery and packing operate on the job as a whole.
· Markups and discounts operate on the whole job, not just on a part.
· Your converted jobs will have the text in the job header copied from the first (or only) part of the job, so that the new system is seamless.
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Categories. The new job structure means that in addition to categorising the job parts, as in version 3, we can also categorise the jobs as a whole. So that where the categories for the parts might include text sections, covers etc, you can now additionally categorise the purpose of the job itself – e.g. Publicity, Office Stationery etc. Your old job categories will have been duplicated as part categories. It’s up to you to change them how you will.
Tasks. In response to many requests, we have not only increased the number of list lines available for each task type to 40, but we have increased the number of finishing task types to 20 (including 2 “Others”) . The number of origination task types has been changed to 6. Your first origination task type remains unchanged, Your old origination tasks 2 and 3 are combined into a single task type, as are 4 and 5, 6 and 7, 8 and 9, and origination other #1 and #2.
The only possible knock-on of this arises where two of the tasks so combined have different ‘simple calculations’, in which case the calculation from the first of the two is used. Any job with a task which would be thereby made incorrect (i.e. because the simple calculation has changed) will have the cost for that task made into an ‘entered cost’.
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