Your customers
- Offset printers
- Mono carton makers
- Book printers
- Designers and ad agencies
- Newspaper and periodical printers
Printing, packaging and media · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a pre-press and CTP plate bureau
Set up the way a pre-press and CTP plate bureau runs: charges per CTP plate by size; design, imposition and proof charges; some resale of plates and chemicals to printers. 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 pre-press and CTP plate bureau deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Monthly bills for dozens of printers take a day to make by hand. Printer dues pile up in slow months.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 5 licences for a pre-press and CTP plate bureau, 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.
- designer or printer file
- pre-press bureau (preflight, imposition, plate)
- offset press
Your suppliers
- CTP plate importers and dealers
- Developer and gum chemical dealers
- Proof paper suppliers
- CTP service engineers
Credit and cash
Regular printers billed monthly and pay 15-45 days; walk-ins pay cash; plates bought on advance or 15-30 days
Plate stock paid up front; monthly bills to 50-200 printers; dues pile up in slow print months
Your screens use your words
CustomerPrinterOrderPlate jobItemPlateInvoiceMonthly billSupplierPlate dealerproductPlate size
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a pre-press and CTP plate bureau
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Pre-press and CTP plate bureau", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a pre-press and CTP plate bureauRoutines, 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 pre-press and CTP plate bureau
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 incoming files by press waiting time, runs a preflight checklist on each, and drafts the message back to the printer for files with errors
Asks you before sending
Totals plates by size and charges for each printer, includes customer-error remakes, and prepares monthly bills
Asks you before sending
Ages printer balances and drafts reminders
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
9:00 amProcessor and plate quality check
- 1Developer temperature
- 2Test plate dot reading at 50%
- 3Top up developer by plate count
9:30 amFile queue and preflight
- 1Order files by press waiting time
- 2Preflight fonts, images at 300 dpi, bleed 3 mm and CMYK
- 3Send problems back to the printer before output
8:00 pmLog remakes with reason
- 1Note each remake and whose error
- 2Customer-error remakes billed
Every week
SatWeekly plate and chemical stock
- 1Count boxes by size and chemicals
- 2Order below reorder level
Every month
1stMonthly bills to printers
- 1Total plates by size and charges per printer for the month
- 2Send bills and statements
15thPrinter dues follow-up
- 1List printers over 45 days
- 2Send reminders; hold credit for repeat defaulters after decision
Every year
JulAnnual CTP service and laser check
- 1Engineer service of plate setter and processor in the slack month
- 2Dispose spent developer through authorised recycler with record
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.
File to delivered plates
- 1File received
- 2Preflight passed or file fixed
- 3Plates output and checked
- 4Delivered to press
- 5Billed in monthly billNeeds approval
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.
Plate job sheet
Printer monthly account
Plate and chemical stock
Preflight before plate output
No plate wasted on a bad file
Plate output quality
Plates that print sharp and last the run
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CTP plate 525x650 mm (single and two colour machines) | 8442 | 18% |
| CTP plate 650x550 mm | 8442 | 18% |
| CTP plate 745x605 mm | 8442 | 18% |
| CTP plate 1030x790 mm (four colour machines) | 8442 | 18% |
| Processless plate (premium) | 8442 | 18% |
| Imposition and preflight charge | 998912 | 18% |
| Design and layout charge | 998391 | 18% |
| Digital colour proof | 998912 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Trade licence
- Shops and Establishments registrationIf it applies
- Hazardous waste authorisationIf 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.
OwnerPrinter accounts, plate buying, pricing, collections.
Pre-press operatorPreflight, imposition, plate output, processor care.
DesignerLayout and corrections for walk-in customers.
Delivery boyDelivers plates, collects files and payments.
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 pre-press and CTP plate bureau?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Pre-press and CTP plate bureau". 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 pre-press and CTP plate bureau 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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