Your customers
- Flexible packaging converters (gravure and flexo)
- Offset printers and publishers
- Label printers
- Corrugated box makers
- Screen and textile printers
Chemicals, plastics and rubber · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a printing ink maker
Set up the way a printing ink maker runs: selling offset, gravure, flexo and screen inks, varnishes and overprint coatings by the kg to printers and converters; shade-matched special colours at a premium. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
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What this solves
What a printing ink maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Converters stretch payment to 90-120 days. Shade formulas live in one colourist's notebook.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 12 licences for a printing ink maker, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.
What changes
The right person is reminded at the right time, approvals wait for whoever decides, and every licence has a renewal reminder. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Where you sit
MatruOS starts from how your business earns
Who you sell to, who you buy from, how credit moves and where you sit in the chain decide how your screens, reminders and reports are set up.
- pigment and resin maker
- ink maker
- converter or printer
- FMCG brand and publisher
Your suppliers
- Pigment makers in Gujarat and Maharashtra
- Resin and varnish makers
- Solvent suppliers (ethyl acetate, IPA, MEK-free blends)
- Additive and wax suppliers
- Pail and drum suppliers
Credit and cash
Pigments and solvents 15-30 days or advance; converters and printers pay 60-90 days; small printers 30 days or cash
Raw materials paid in 15-30 days; ink sold on 60-90 days; working capital locked in receivables; returns of unused special shades
Your screens use your words
CustomerPrinterItemInkInvoiceBillworkerInk maker
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a printing ink maker
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Printing ink maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a printing ink makerRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
- Bring your dataCustomers, items and balances come across from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others. For Tally, our team helps you move the data while Tally import is checked on the live app.
- Approve and runThe AI team prepares the routine work. A person approves anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes.
Your AI team
What the AI team does for a printing ink maker
Each job goes to a member of your AI team. It reads your own records and prepares the work. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Plans the week's press visits by customer value and open complaints and lists returns to collect
Works it out and shows you
Ages receivables by customer, flags those over limit and drafts reminders
Asks you before sending
Recomputes cost per kg of each shade from its formula at latest rates and flags shades priced below target margin
Works it out and shows you
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How you run
Your routines, already on a timetable
Each routine has a time, a person and its steps with the checks that matter. MatruOS reminds the right person and keeps the record. Open one to see its steps.
Every day
9:30 amMorning shade requests
- 1List shade requests received by phone or sample
- 2Mix and draw down shade cards for approval
- 3Shade matched within tolerance
10:00 amBatch dispersion and grinding
- 1Weigh bases and solvents to the batch sheet
- 2Grind until the gauge reading is met
- 3Adjust viscosity for the customer's press
4:30 pmSame-day dispatch round
- 1Fill pails and label shade code and batch
- 2Send urgent press orders by local tempo
Every week
Tue 10:00 amWeekly press visits and returns
- 1Visit key converters and check running problems
- 2Collect leftover special shades for credit or rework
Fri 5:00 pmWeekly receivables review
- 1List converters past 60 and 90 days
- 2Hold new supply to customers past the limit
Every month
2ndMonthly formula cost update
- 1Update pigment resin and solvent rates
- 2Recompute cost per kg of top 50 shades and price lists
Every year
AprAnnual consent and solvent licence review
- 1Renew consent, fire NOC and PESO solvent storage licence where due
- 2Update IS 15495 compliance declarations for food-packaging customers
Workflows
Each stage goes to the person who handles it
Work passes stage by stage to the right person. Stages marked for approval wait for the person who decides.
Special shade order
- 1Sample or pantone received
- 2Shade matched and card sent
- 3Customer approves shadeNeeds approval
- 4Batch made and checked
- 5Delivered and billed
Registers and SOPs
Your registers and standards
Registers hold the fields this trade records. SOPs carry the steps and checks, so work is done the same way every time.
Shade and formula book
Batch sheet
Customer ledger and returns
Shade matching and approval
Ink prints the customer's colour on their substrate
Ink batch quality
Each batch runs on press and is safe for food packaging
Items and licences
Your first bill is right, and no licence lapses
Starter items arrive with unit, HSN and GST rate. The registrations this business usually needs are listed with a reminder before each one expires.
| Item | HSN | GST |
|---|---|---|
| Offset process ink (CMYK) 2.5 kg tin | 3215 | 18% |
| Offset special shade (pantone matched) | 3215 | 18% |
| Gravure PU lamination ink (toluene-free) | 3215 | 18% |
| Gravure NC surface ink | 3215 | 18% |
| Water-based flexo ink (corrugated) | 3215 | 18% |
| UV flexo label ink | 3215 | 18% |
| Screen printing ink | 3215 | 18% |
| Overprint varnish | 3208 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- PAN
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Factory licence
- Fire NOC
- PESO licence (fuel, gas or explosives)If it applies
- Hazardous waste authorisationIf it applies
- TrademarkIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)If it applies
- ESI registration (ESIC)If it applies
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerBuys pigments and resins, prices inks, handles key converters and credit.
Lab colouristMatches shades, draws down cards, keeps the formula book.
Ink makerRuns mixers bead mills and three-roll mill, makes batches to formula.
Technical service executiveVisits presses, solves printing problems, takes orders and returns.
Not covered yet
- Sending messages, bills and reminders on WhatsApp from MatruOS is not live yet. Today they go by link, QR code or email, and from your own phone in one tap.
- Live bank and UPI feeds are not connected yet. Upload a bank statement and MatruOS reads it into payments for you to confirm.
Questions people ask
How long does it take to set up MatruOS for a printing ink maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Printing ink maker". MatruOS picks this business type and sets up everything on this page in a few minutes. You then get a 7-day free trial, no card needed.
Do I have to type all of this in?
No. The routines, workflows, registers, items, licences and AI team on this page arrive already set up. You change what is different in your business, and bring your customers, items and balances from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others, with our team's help for Tally data.
Can I change the routines and workflows?
Yes. Every routine, workflow, register and SOP is yours to rename, retime, switch off or add to. MatruOS keeps the rest of the system in step with your changes.
What does the AI team do without asking me?
It runs routine checks and prepares drafts. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval. The one exception you can choose is payment reminders, which go out on their own once you have checked them and switched them on.
Chemicals, plastics and rubber
Other makers and factories in chemicals, plastics and rubber
Run a printing ink maker on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
Describe your business once. MatruOS sets up your apps, brings in your data and puts Muni and the AI team to work, with your approval on every step that matters. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
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