Your customers
- Rotogravure flexible packaging converters
- Gift wrap and decor paper printers
- Laminate and wallpaper makers
- Embossing roller users
Printing, packaging and media · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a gravure cylinder engraver
Set up the way a gravure cylinder engraver runs: engraving charge per cylinder by circumference, face length and colour; repro and proof charges; re-chroming and re-engraving of returned cylinders; new base cylinders. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
Ready when you sign up
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What this solves
What a gravure cylinder engraver deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Converters call all day asking when cylinders will be ready. Copper and nickel prices move but cylinder rates do not.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 8 licences for a gravure cylinder engraver, 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.
- brand artwork
- engraver (repro, plate, engrave, chrome, proof)
- converter's rotogravure press
Your suppliers
- Copper anode and nickel suppliers
- Chromic acid and plating chemical dealers
- Steel tube and base cylinder makers
- Engraving stylus and spares importers
- Polishing stone suppliers
Credit and cash
Converters pay 30-60 days, some longer; plating chemicals and copper are bought on advance or 15-30 days
Copper and chemical stock is paid up front; cylinders delivered in a week are paid in 30-60 days; repeat converters run open accounts
Your screens use your words
CustomerConverterOrderCylinder jobItemCylinderInvoiceBillSupplierChemical dealerproductCylinder set
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a gravure cylinder engraver
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Gravure cylinder engraver", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a gravure cylinder engraverRoutines, 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 gravure cylinder engraver
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.
Drafts a morning status message for each converter with stage and expected ready date, and flags jobs at risk of missing the promise
Asks you before sending
Recalculates per-cylinder cost from copper, nickel and chrome prices and drafts a rate revision for the owner
Asks you before sending
Ages dues by converter and drafts statements and reminders
Asks you before sending
Reminds the ETP operator to log chrome and pH each day, flags missing days or readings over limit, and keeps the consent, TSDF and Form 4 dates
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
8:00 amPlating tank chemistry check each shift
- 1Copper bath temperature
- 2Chrome bath temperature
- 3Add chemicals as per analysis and log
9:00 amMorning job status and promise dates
- 1List each job's stage and promised date
- 2Send status to converters waiting on cylinders
10:00 amTest cut and cell check before full engraving
- 1Test cut cell width and depth against repro setting
- 2Stylus wear checked under microscope
4:00 pmChrome effluent treatment log
- 1Hexavalent chrome after reduction
- 2Treated water pH
- 3Sludge drums labelled and stored
Every week
MonWeekly copper and nickel price check
- 1Note copper and nickel rates
- 2If copper moved over 8%, revise per-cylinder rates
Every month
5thMonthly converter dues
- 1Age bills by converter
- 2Send statements and reminders
Every year
JunConsent, hazardous waste return and TSDF membership
- 1File the annual hazardous waste return (Form 4) by 30 June
- 2Renew consent and TSDF membership if due
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.
Artwork to delivered cylinder set
- 1Artwork and size received
- 2Repro done and digital proof sent
- 3Proof approved by converter or brandNeeds approval
- 4Plated and engraved
- 5Chromed and proofed
- 6Delivered with bill
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 job card
Plating tank log
Effluent and hazardous waste log
Plating and engraving quality
Cylinders that print right first time
Chrome effluent and sludge handling
Keep the consent and protect workers
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Engraved cylinder, new base (up to 1,000 mm face) | 8442 | 18% |
| Engraving on customer's base cylinder | 8442 | 18% |
| Re-chroming of cylinder | 8442 | 18% |
| Repro and colour separation per design | 998391 | 18% |
| Proof printing per set | 998912 | 18% |
| Laser-engraved embossing roller | 8442 | 18% |
| Copper turnings and scrap | 7404 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Hazardous waste authorisation
- Fire NOC
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerConverter accounts, pricing, copper and chemical buying, compliance.
Repro artistColour separation, cell and screen settings, digital proof.
Plating operatorNickel, copper and chrome plating, tank chemistry.
Engraving operatorRuns engravers, checks cell sizes, test cuts.
Polishing and proofing operatorPolishes to size, runs proof press.
ETP operatorTreats chrome and copper effluent, logs sludge.
Dispatch and accountsDelivery, bills, collections.
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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 gravure cylinder engraver?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Gravure cylinder engraver". 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
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