Printlogic

There are a lot of features related to offset/litho printing that do not relate to our (Mostly wide-format vinyl/sign printing) industry, and some features & wording are not required or useful. I understand that this software is geared towards several different printing industries but it would be nice to have the option to remove all features and wording related to offset/litho printing. There are some quirks when it comes to material calculations but we're still in the early stages of setting it up and user error is usually the cause for most of our confusion. Exporting the data so it can be brought into Quickbooks Desktop has been a bit confusing, but I'm confident that we can get it sorted out. Direct integration with QBD would be nice but I understand they can't possibly cover all the possible integrations that clients might need.

A bit clunky to start with but support and training was FAB. A few things don't work for me like costed quotes - importing papers is not easy - support do this but this truly relies on the info from paper companies. All the quotes I create now are manual - much more reliable. Probably not the quickest but it works for me. Changing a spec once 'booked in' as an order would be useful - I cant see a way around this than starting again - perhaps there is a way and its a training issue. Not having VAT on PO's is crazy - please sort this.

1. Some of the features simply don't work. example entering Manual Items on a quote. When you enter a first item, it will pull in the correct pricing from the pre-loaded Items pricelist, but if you go back into that quote and 'add Manual Items' it pulls a price out of nowhere, sometimes €100s different. 2. There is a significant gap in the Costed Quote area re using Mixed stocks. eg the industry standard for all production booklets is 150gsm silk inserts, and a 300gsm silk cover, it is not possible to provide an accurate quotation for this as PL will not allow you to print and bind mixed stocks in the same quote column. 3. The garment/embroidery quote option is something we would like to use more but find it very complicated and confusing. Perhaps we need more training. 4. The inability to be able to 'Pricecard' or Pricelist industry standard items such as 500 Business Cards or 100 A4 flyers etc, makes the stock/purchase part of the application obsolete as selling these producst does not remove stock from your central file, it needs to be manually put in as Wastage, which most accountants/bookkeepers/owners would never accept. 5. We had hoped to use the Web2Print feature of PL and link it to our software but to me that link needs to be improved before we could develop it further (see point 4 above).

When you amend a small item of a quote you are working on it changes everything and can adjust the price that you had worked out completely. You can work around this, but need to be aware of it.

My least favorite thing, was definitely the high cost. 😔