PrintSmith Release 8.0.16 is Now Available


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PrintSmith Release 8.0.16 is Now Available

 

http://www.efi.com/support/print-mis/efi-printsmith/updates/

 

—-Changes in version 8.0.16—-

 

* Accounting

Fixed: An issue with the tax being doubled on the Sales Summary Report and Accounting Links File.

 

Fixed: When entering in credit card information and only putting in 2 digits for the year, the year would become 2031 no matter what 2 digits were entered.

 

Fixed: If the Accounting Links file name was changed the program would not automatically add the iif extension to the end.

 

* Estimator

Fixed: Filter for coated sides when searching for a stock did not work.

 

Fixed: When the costing method was changed on a charge associated to an existing estimate or invoice and the document was recalculated, costing would not update.

 

* Stock Definitions

Fixed: In inventory you can highlight 10 fields in the window for 10 Most Recent Inventory Changes even if there are not 10 items in the window.

 

*PrintSmith Site

Fixed: If a stock was changed on a template associated to a product and that product was ordered before the PrintSmith Site was updated and error would occur at the master saying that the stock was missing and no orders would come down until the message was cleared.

 

Changed: XMPie is now the default VDP option for new or duplicated products.

 

*Scheduler

Fixed: Incorrect tag would open when selected from the Late and Complete tag list

 

*Mailing Labels

Fixed: When creating mailing labels and both options to print mailing labels and create mail merge file are selected and then the create mail merge file was deselected, the labels would print out blank.

 

*Carton Labels

Fixed: If you had 10 boxes and started at box 5 when printing the carton labels, the labels would start at box 5 of 10 and go up to 15 of 10 rather than start at 1 of 10 and go up to 10 of 10.

 

PrintSmith 8.0 (Beta) Looks Sweet!!!

I had a chance to stop by Milford Printers and check out the beta version of 8.0 and let me tell you, it is sweet. PrintSmith has fixed almost ALL of my pet peeves for the past 2 years!!!

I won’t let the cat our the bag about the new features, but I will say that they have firmly cemented my complete support. Danney Rodgers and Ron Teller have added so many features that my head is spinning just from reading the release notes!

Please don’t call and ask them how long, just know that it will be a sweet upgrade!

Using Charge Command Titles for Job Ticket

Here are the instructions for changing the Custom Job Ticket for use with the Charge Command Titles:

You can get your custom job ticket to sort the charge titles in the same order that you have Charge Commands arranged. However, once you do it there are 2 things to to keep in mind.
1. Your jobs from History will recognize the OLD way and you will have to take the charges off and add them back on to get them to sort correctly.
2. If you ever want to switch back to the Built In Ticket you will have put your charges back the way you had them.
If you feel comfortable with that, changing your job ticket is a 4 step process.

1. First, Re-arrange your charges and charge commands in the order that you
want.
For us, they appear in this order:
PrePress
Production
Bindery
Outside Services
Mailing Services
Shipping
BCT
Misc.
Discounts

2. Second, Open your job ticket in report writer: Select the Data Source (Filing Cabinet Icon) and check the box that says “Group Charges” and the box that says “Use Charge List”, click OK
3. At the bottom of your ticket there is a field called
“Charge_Section_Title”, open that field, then open the formula (red sigma). Make sure the “Special” tab is selected, then choose Command Title (1 to 10)”, click OK

4.The leading Summary for the Charges has to be changed.
A. Click on the Page Part Manager
B. Highlight the 7th Leading Summary (which probably says “Charges: recordtype”)
C. Double click on it
D. On the left window, select the field named “list ID”
E. Click in the Up/Down arrow icon to the left of the Red Sigma, and select the field called “list ID” from the “Charges” menu.
F. Click OK, and OK and save.
Save your job ticket and test it.

New Report Samples Booklet

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Reports Sample Book & Tips Revised January 2007

In preparation for the Workshop held on January 20th, 2007 I have done an “extreme makeover” of the Report sample book. I have now included many tips including a section on BHR’s and Excel files. This booklet comes free with any CD Purchase, Onsite Visit, or Workshop presentation. If you would like to purchase the book by itself, I will be adding to the “buy” section of this website very soon.

8 Sections:

  1. Power Tips for Setup
  2. BHR’s, Excel Files, Time Studies
  3. Getting Started with the CD
  4. Report Manager Listing of Reports
  5. Daily Reports
  6. Pending List Reports & Job Tickets
  7. Stock Management Reports
  8. Sales Analysis Reports

The booklet is over 130 pages and coil bound with coated covers. Stay tuned for further details!

Starting Record Number for Reporting

If your Report Writer reports take a long time to run, then it is probably time to change the starting record number.

The starting record number is located in the Data Source (Filing Cabinet
Icon). When you click on this the Select Data Source window will appear and
it will tell you what your Data Source is. If you are using “Documents” your
data source is Invoices by default. If you are using a “List Data” note
which database you are using.

Now the trick is to find out what starting record number you need.
The best way is to go to the Downloader and use the Browse function.
Next to “File to Browse” choose the database your are using as your data
source for your report.
In the upper right corner is the number of “Records in File”. This is the
total. At the bottom is the “Go to record” button and a field to enter a number.

Try entering a number that you think might be close and then scan the data.

The number you enter into the Data Source will be the record that the Report
Starts with. It will automatically eliminate all records that precede it.
Thus, the report runs faster because there is less data.

Welcome to my new Blog on my new website!

If you have found this post, you have found my new blog!

I have discontinued posting on Blogger for now, unless I can find a reason to double post. Please check out the site as I have consolidated my website and my blog into one website. I plan an adding the ability to purchase reports from here in the very near future.

Please let me know what you think!!

Forum is Up in more than 1 way

Wow! What a crazy week for email!! First, the PS Forum is down for 4 days, so I started a google group to get my daily fix. Then the Forum returned. Then the Forum got upgraded to a web based forum at EFI Email Forums. The old list will eventually be shut down.

For those of you interested in the Google Group, here is the link: Google Group for PrintSmith Users.

I like being able to respond to emails immediately so I know I will miss that. On the other hand, it was tiring to see the same questions being asked over and over again. The only thing I know for certain is that everything changes over time.

I encourage you to check out the new forum and at least give it a try for one month if you haven’t already done so.