
Estimating For Printing Companies
Estimating a job can be extremely difficult to get an accurate result without a print estimating program, due to complex factors and logical processes. Most of the costs are determined from specific costs e.g. the cost of stock, hourly rate of press & guillotining cut cost. Other factors which can effect the cost are factors like no. of printed copies out of a stock sheet, height of guillotine etc.
ROBO Print Job Manager can estimate a job both quickly and accurately and with a one off cost of $US499.00 represents excellent value and is far more reasonably priced than most competitors.
The processes can be broken up into the following categories for both Offset & Digital Printing. To find out out more about a paricularly estimating process with information on how each process is calculated, please click on a link below:
Category | Offset Printing | Digital Printing |
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Pre-Press | ![]() | ![]() |
Film | ![]() | |
Plates | ![]() | |
Paper | ![]() | ![]() |
Guillotining | ![]() | ![]() |
Press Setup | ![]() | |
Printing | ![]() | ![]() |
Ink | ![]() | |
Numbering | ![]() | |
Perforation | ![]() | ![]() |
Creasing | ![]() | ![]() |
Die-Cut | ![]() | ![]() |
Embossing | ![]() | ![]() |
Wash Up | ![]() | |
Folding | ![]() | ![]() |
Collating | ![]() | ![]() |
Drilling | ![]() | ![]() |
Binding | ![]() | ![]() |
Lamination | ![]() | ![]() |
Packaging | ![]() | ![]() |

The dialog box above shows a complete display of how the different estimating costs can be be totalled to provide an accurate estimate. The costs are totalled for up to 3 different runs, and are calculated instantaneously after all the data is entered. Please note the example above is for an offset job only, for a digital printer job the dialog box is slightly different.
ROBO Print Job Manager Software | Pre-Press | Film | Plates | Paper
Guillotining | Press Setup | Printing | Ink | Numbering | Perforation
Creasing | Die-Cut | Embossing | Wash Up | Folding | Collating
Drilling | Binding | Lamination | Packaging | Contact | Links