For print shops and label printers
Production planning for print shops.
Prepress, press and finishing in one live view. Paper, label stock and inks are reserved per job, operators record every job at the press, and you see what is on which machine without leaving the office.
- Free plan · No credit card
- Your data isolated and encrypted
- Set up in minutes, not months
Sound familiar?
Where a print shop loses its day
The press is washed up between jobs that could have shared the same inks.
A job is promised for Friday, and nobody checked that the press was already full.
Paper runs out halfway through a run because the stock sheet was out of date.
What ManuHive does
From artwork to dispatch, on one screen
For shops that run many short jobs through the same presses.
- Basic plan
Ink sequencing
Tag each job with its inks. Two jobs that share CMYK cost nothing to switch between, and Optimize runs the day from light inks to dark, with opaque white and metallics last.
Changeover warnings at the press
The press screen shows what the machine is set up for and warns the operator when the next job needs different inks or a different plate.
Paper and inks reserved per job
Each job carries its materials: sheets, label rolls, ink and laminate. A new order reserves them and finishing deducts them, so the stock page is always current.
- Basic plan
Promise dates from the real queue
Before you promise Friday, see when the job can actually come off the press, from each machine's queue and working hours.
Quotes the customer answers online
Send a quote as a PDF or a link. The customer accepts or declines on the link, and an accepted quote becomes a work order without retyping it.
- Basic plan
Artwork on the product
Attach the artwork files to each product, so the right file is always one click away from the job.
Getting started
Set up for a print shop in one sitting
Choose printing when you sign up. You name your own products, steps and machines, so plate making, flexo presses and rewinders fit as well as digital and offset. ManuHive suggests the usual steps and adds the two facts that decide a press's changeovers.
Usual steps, one tap to add
- 1Prepress
- 2Printing
- 3Finishing
Facts on every product
- Inks
- The set of inks a job prints with. A switch costs only the inks that change.
- Plate / tooling
- The plate or tool a job needs. Each new one is kept as you type it, so it is spelled the same next time.
Ink order, cleanest first
- Varnish
- Yellow
- Magenta
- Cyan
- Black
- Opaque White
- Metallic
Common questions
Start with your first work order today
Free plan, no credit card, no setup call.