Your customers
- Snack and namkeen brands
- Spice and tea packers
- Detergent and soap makers
- Agro-chemical companies
- Pharma (sachets and strip laminates)
- Dairy and edible oil brands
Printing, packaging and media · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a flexible packaging printer
Set up the way a flexible packaging printer runs: printed laminate rolls sold per kg and pouches per 1,000 or per kg; one-time cylinder charges per design. 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 flexible packaging printer deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Film prices swing with crude but brand prices stay fixed. Film wastage in make-ready, lamination and slitting is not measured.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 4 registers and 11 licences for a flexible packaging printer, 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.
- film and ink makers
- cylinder engraver
- rotogravure converter
- brand owner's FFS machine
Your suppliers
- BOPP and PET film makers
- LDPE and metallised film suppliers
- Aluminium foil suppliers
- Gravure ink makers
- Adhesive suppliers
- Solvent dealers
- Cylinder engravers
Credit and cash
Films and inks bought on 15-45 days (film makers often want advance in tight markets); brands pay 45-90 days; cylinder charges billed with first supply
Film stock and work in process of 2-4 weeks plus 45-90 day receivables; cylinder bank is capital tied up for the customer
Your screens use your words
CustomerBrandOrderPOItemLaminateInvoiceBillSupplierFilm supplierproductStructure
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a flexible packaging printer
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Flexible packaging printer", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a flexible packaging printerRoutines, 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 flexible packaging printer
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.
Orders jobs by delivery and colour sequence, checks cylinders, film and ink for each, and lists rolls ready to leave curing
Works it out and shows you
Works out film issued against good kg for each job and flags jobs over the wastage allowance
Works it out and shows you
Recalculates price per kg for each brand structure from current film, foil and ink prices and drafts price revision letters
Asks you before sending
Totals plastic supplied by category and brand and prepares the annual EPR return figures
Asks you before signing
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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
8:00 amDaily press and laminator plan
- 1Order jobs by delivery date and colour sequence to cut wash-ups
- 2Check cylinders, film and ink for each job are in
- 3Check curing room for rolls ready to slit
9:00 amShade and register approval at press
- 1Colour against brand standard
- 2Register and text against approved proof
- 3Ink viscosity in the cup
3:00 pmQC release of cured rolls
- 1Bond strength after curing
- 2Residual solvent on food jobs
- 3Seal strength
7:00 pmClose jobs with film yield
- 1Film issued against good kg out for each closed job
- 2Wastage against allowance
Every week
MonWeekly solvent store and earthing check
- 1Solvent drums within store limit and away from press
- 2Earthing and static eliminators on press checked
- 3Fire extinguishers and sprinkler pressure checked
Every month
2ndMonthly film price and laminate re-pricing
- 1Collect this month's film, foil and ink prices
- 2Recalculate price per kg for each brand structure and draft revision letters
6thMonthly brand dues follow-up
- 1Age bills by brand and send statements
- 2Chase cylinder charges not yet paid
Every year
May, JunAnnual EPR return and registration renewal
- 1Total plastic supplied by category and brand for the year
- 2File the annual return on the CPCB EPR portal by 30 June
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.
New design to dispatch
- 1Structure and price agreedNeeds approval
- 2Cylinders engraved and proof approved by
- 3Printed with shade approved
- 4Laminated and cured
- 5QC released
- 6Slit or pouched and dispatched
- 7Billed with EPR details
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.
Cylinder bank
Job card
QC report
EPR plastic ledger
Food-contact laminate release
Release only safe and strong packs
Solvent and fire safety
Prevent solvent fires and keep the licence
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Printed 2 layer laminate roll (BOPP/BOPP or PET/PE) | 3920 | 18% |
| Printed 3 layer laminate with metallised PET or foil | 3920 | 18% |
| Centre-seal pouches (snacks and spices) | 3923 | 18% |
| Stand-up zipper pouches | 3923 | 18% |
| Sachet roll (shampoo, detergent) | 3920 | 18% |
| Pharma strip laminate (foil/poly) | 7607 | 18% |
| Cylinder development charge (per colour) | 8442 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- EPR registration for plastic packaging
- Hazardous waste authorisation
- Fire NOC
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- PESO licence (fuel, gas or explosives)If it applies
- BIS licence (ISI mark)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.
OwnerBrand accounts, film buying, pricing, EPR registration.
Production managerPress and laminator schedule, cylinder planning, wastage control.
Press operatorMounts cylinders, mixes ink to shade, runs print.
Laminator operatorLamination, adhesive mixing, sends rolls to curing.
Slitting and pouching operatorSlits to width, makes pouches, packs.
QC chemistBond, seal, solvent and colour tests, releases rolls.
AccountantBills, collections, EPR data, GST.
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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 flexible packaging printer?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Flexible packaging printer". 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.
Printing, packaging and media
Other makers and factories in printing, packaging and media
Run a flexible packaging printer on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
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