Your customers
- Shops and small businesses
- Schools and colleges
- Local publishers
- Pharma and FMCG brands (labels and leaflets)
- Wedding card buyers
- Government offices and tenders
- Political parties at election time
Printing, packaging and media · Makers and factories
MatruOS for an offset printing press
Set up the way an offset printing press runs: print jobs priced as paper plus plates plus impressions per 1,000 plus finishing; design charges; margin on paper bought for the job. 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 an offset printing press deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Quotes take time and miss plates, wastage or finishing. 'I never approved this' disputes lead to free reprints.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 8 licences for an offset printing press, 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.
- paper merchant and CTP bureau
- offset press
- finishing job workers
- customer
Your suppliers
- Paper merchants
- Ink dealers
- CTP plate bureaus
- Lamination and binding job workers
- Die makers
Credit and cash
Walk-in customers pay 50% advance and balance on delivery; corporates and institutions 30-90 days; paper merchants give 15-45 days
Advances fund paper for small jobs; institutional dues of 30-90 days and government bills tie up cash; paper merchant paid monthly
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyOrderJobItemPrint jobInvoiceBillSupplierPaper merchantproductJob type
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for an offset printing press
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Offset printing press", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as an offset printing pressRoutines, 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 an offset printing press
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.
Lists today's and tomorrow's jobs by stage and machine, flags jobs missing paper, plates or proof approval
Works it out and shows you
Drafts the proof message with items to check, records the party's reply against the job, and chases pending approvals
Asks you before sending
Builds a quote from size, paper, colours, quantity and finishing with wastage and plate count, and drafts the WhatsApp quote for owner approval
Asks you before sending
Ages unpaid bills by party and drafts polite reminders with UPI link
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
9:30 amMorning job board by due date
- 1List jobs due today and tomorrow and their stage
- 2Check paper and plates are ready for jobs going on machine today
- 3Give the machine man the run order
11:00 amProofs out and approvals in
- 1Send proofs on WhatsApp with spelling, numbers and colours marked for checking
- 2Save the written OK against the job
- 3Send approved files to the CTP bureau
4:00 pmQuote new enquiries
- 1Work out paper, plates, impressions, wastage and finishing for each enquiry
- 2Send the quote and ask for advance
7:00 pmEvening job closing and billing
- 1Mark delivered jobs and make bills
- 2Note sheets issued against good sheets for jobs printed today
- 3Cash and UPI received today matched with bills
Every week
SunWeekly roller, blanket and machine cleaning
- 1Deep clean rollers and blankets, check roller settings
- 2Oil and grease points as per machine chart
Every month
7thMonthly dues and paper merchant settlement
- 1List unpaid bills by party and age
- 2Send reminders; settle the paper merchant's monthly bill
Every year
JulAnnual machine overhaul and licence renewal
- 1Overhaul machines in the slack month; replace worn rollers
- 2Renew trade licence; update Press Sewa intimation if details changed
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.
Enquiry to payment
- 1Quote sent
- 2Advance receivedNeeds approval
- 3Proof approved in writing
- 4Printed
- 5Finished and counted
- 6Delivered with challan
- 7Balance paid
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.
Job register
Paper stock
Proof approval log
Proof approval
Print only what the party approved in writing
Job estimate
Quote without missing costs
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Printing job work on customer's paper (per 1,000 impressions, single colour) | 998912 | 18% |
| Four colour printing (per 1,000 sheets, 4 plates) | 998912 | 18% |
| Brochures and leaflets (own paper) | 4901 | 5% |
| Book printing for publisher (own paper) | 998912 | 5% |
| Letterheads and bill books | 4820 | 18% |
| Visiting cards | 4911 | 18% |
| Wedding cards (printed) | 4909 | 18% |
| Posters and pamphlets (advertising) | 4911 | 18% |
| Design and proof charges | 998391 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Trade licence
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf it applies
- Newspaper or press registrationIf it applies
- Factory licenceIf 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.
OwnerQuotes, deals with parties, buys paper, collects money.
DesignerLayout, proofs, imposition, sends files to CTP bureau.
Machine manMake-ready, colour, print runs, roller and blanket care.
HelperPaper cutting, counting, packing, feeding.
BinderFolding, stitching, perfect binding, numbering, lamination.
Delivery boyDelivers jobs, brings back payments and signed challans.
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 an offset printing press?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Offset printing press". 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 an offset printing press 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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