Your customers
- Exporters and buying houses
- Indian brands and boutiques
- Online marketplaces and own website
- Craft fairs and exhibitions
- Jaipur and Ahmedabad traders
Clothing and textiles · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a block and screen printing workshop
Set up the way a block and screen printing workshop runs: sale of hand block printed fabric, sarees, dupattas, bedcovers and garments; job printing for exporters and brands per metre. 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 block and screen printing workshop deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Multi-stage orders slip because each stage waits for sun and water. Screen-printed fakes sold as hand block undercut prices.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a block and screen printing workshop, 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.
- Fabric
- block printer
- exporter, brand or boutique
- buyer
Your suppliers
- Cotton and silk fabric traders
- Natural dye and mordant suppliers
- Block carvers
- Gum and clay suppliers
- Washing ghats or tank owners
Credit and cash
Exporters and brands 30-90 days; boutiques 30 days; fairs cash; fabric on 15-30 days; block carvers paid half in advance
Fabric and dyes bought before each order; printers paid weekly; export money 30-90 days later; fair season Oct-Mar brings cash
Your screens use your words
CustomerBuyerItemPieceproductDesign
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a block and screen printing workshop
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Block and screen printing workshop", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a block and screen printing workshopRoutines, 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 block and screen printing workshop
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.
Tracks each order through its stages, re-dates sun-dependent stages when rain is forecast, flags lots without a fastness reading, and drafts buyer updates
Asks you before sending
Totals pieces and days per worker, deducts advances, and drafts the weekly pay list
Asks you before paying
Ages buyer dues, drafts reminders, and checks GI or Craftmark tags are issued only against hand block lots
Asks you before sending
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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
6:30 amWash, harda and mordant the day's fabric
- 1Soak and wash fabric to remove starch
- 2Dip in harda and dry in the sun for the natural dye lots
9:00 amBlock printing at the table
- 1Lay the fabric on the padded table and mark guide lines
- 2Print outline blocks first, then fillers, matching guide points
- 3Count pieces or metres printed per printer
1:30 pmDye bath, boiling and washing
- 1Indigo vat dipping or alizarin boiling as per stage
- 2Wash and spread to dry; record lot and recipe
6:00 pmUpdate order stages and promised dates
- 1Move each order to its stage
- 2Re-date stages that wait for sun if rain is forecast
- 3Send buyers a stage update after the owner's okay
Every week
SunWeekly printer and washer wages
- 1Total pieces per printer and days for washers
- 2Deduct advances and pay
Every month
5thBuyer dues and GI tag stock
- 1Ask buyers past 30 days for payment after the owner's okay
- 2Check GI and Craftmark tag stock for the month's lots
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.
Export or boutique order
- 1Strike-off printed and photographed
- 2Buyer approves strike-offNeeds approval
- 3Fabric bought and prepared
- 4Printed and dyed through all stages
- 5QC and finishing
- 6Invoiced and dispatched with GI tag
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.
Order stage tracker
Block library
Dye recipe and wash log
Natural dye and resist process
Get the same shade and fastness lot after lot
Print and fastness QC
Pass buyer inspection and keep the hand-made mark honest
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hand block printed cotton fabric | 5208 | 5% |
| Ajrakh printed fabric (natural dye) | 5208 | 5% |
| Dabu indigo printed fabric | 5208 | 5% |
| Hand block printed saree | 5208 | 5% |
| Hand block printed dupatta | 6214 | 5% |
| Hand block printed double bedcover | 6304 | 5% |
| Hand block printed kurta | 6204 | 5% |
| Block printing job work | 998821 | 5% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- TrademarkIf 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.
Owner (chhipa master)Takes orders, designs with buyers, keeps natural dye recipes, buys blocks and fabric.
PrintersPrint by block at the table, paid per piece or per day.
Dyers and washersHarda and mordant, dabu, indigo vat, boiling, washing, sun drying.
Finisher and packerChecks, irons, folds, tags and packs.
Accounts and dispatchInvoices, GI tags, courier, buyer updates.
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 block and screen printing workshop?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Block and screen printing workshop". 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.
Clothing and textiles
Other makers and factories in clothing and textiles
Run a block and screen printing workshop 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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