Imprint

Imprint is the name of a management information system, offered as Imprint-MIS, for print, direct mail and packaging businesses. The supplier works as an integration specialist and configures each system to the customer rather than selling a fixed package.

What Imprint offers

• Estimating — quick estimates for many kinds of work that feed the rest of the system.
• Workflow monitoring — follows jobs from estimate through to fulfilment and invoicing.
• Shop-floor data — its own machine monitoring and data capture put actual costs into the system.
• Bottleneck analysis — aims to find pressure points in a business and relieve them.
• Integration — connects systems and automates workflow for print and packaging firms.

Who it works with

Print, direct mail and packaging businesses, including some large ones. The team is said to come from the industry and IT backgrounds.

Key facts

• Experience: the software has been developed over 36 years, and the supplier cites more than 40 years in the industry
• Approach: a bespoke configuration built after getting to know each customer