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Odoo ERP for Printing Press and Print Shops

Website quotes, print estimates, artwork approval, plates, and shop-floor production for print shops on Odoo.

Industry

Manufacturing

Downloads

1

Technical name

ps_printing_press_erp

Printing Press Management Odoo module preview

Printing Press Management helps print shops run jobs from website enquiry to the press in Odoo. Visitors submit a Get a Quote brief. Estimators cost paper, layout, and wastage, then create a sales order in one click. Pre-press tracks plates and artwork, with customer approval on the portal. Confirmed orders become manufacturing jobs with deadlines, job slips, a quality check, and reprints. A Control Tower shows pipeline, production, and overdue work.

Features

  • Print estimation

    Cost jobs with paper specs, imposition (up per sheet), wastage, setup and run cost, then send a quotation PDF from the estimation.

  • Sheet calculation and wastage

    Sheets required follow print quantity, layout, and wastage %. Defaults come from Printing Press settings.

  • Quote to Sale Order

    Create a Sale Order from a sent or approved estimation in one click. Confirm the order to generate the manufacturing job.

  • Get a Quote and inquiries

    Website visitors submit job type, quantity, size, colours, paper, finishing, and deadline. Leads open in Printing Press → Inquiries.

  • Plates and artwork

    Track plate status and storage, artwork versions, and customer approval on the portal before the job goes to press.

  • MRP print jobs

    Manufacturing orders carry deadline, plates, artwork, shop notes, estimated vs. actual cost, a quality gate, and a reprint wizard.

  • Customer portal

    Signed-in customers see their inquiries, quotations, jobs, and artwork. Token links let them approve artwork without an account.

  • Control Tower and reports

    Live KPIs, production pulse, charts, and drill-down, plus PDFs for quotation, job slip, cost sheet, plate label, and artwork approval.

Printing Press ERP is a print-shop layer on standard Odoo CRM, Sales, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Accounting. A public Get a Quote form lands as a CRM inquiry. The estimator builds a costed print estimation (paper, imposition, wastage, setup and run cost), then creates a Sale Order in one click. Confirmed orders become manufacturing job cards with plates, artwork, deadlines, and shop-floor notes.

The module is for commercial printers, in-plant shops, and pre-press teams that quote catalogues, brochures, flyers, labels, and similar jobs. Customers track inquiries, quotations, jobs, and artwork from the portal. Internal users work from a Control Tower: pipeline value, production pulse, overdue jobs, plate stock, and financials, with date presets and drill-down into the matching lists.

  • Public Get a Quote form and inquiry kanban on CRM leads (print inquiries stay filterable from the regular pipeline).
  • Print estimation lines: product, paper spec, up-per-sheet, wastage %, sheet calculation, cost vs. selling price.
  • One-click Sale Order from a sent or approved estimation; confirm the order to drive MRP production.
  • Plates as shop assets (available, in use, scrap) with label and inventory reports.
  • Artwork records with versions and customer Approve Artwork on the portal (token link works without login).
  • Print tab on the manufacturing order: deadline, plates, artwork, estimated vs. actual cost, quality checkpoint, reprint wizard.
  • Optional block: do not mark the manufacturing order done until quality is checked.
  • Control Tower OWL dashboard with light/dark toggle, charts, and alerts.
  • PDF reports: quotation, job slip, production summary, cost sheet, plate label, plate inventory, artwork approval sheet.
  • Roles: Printing Press User and Administrator, plus portal isolation by partner/email. Multi-company on print models.

Works on Community and Enterprise. Needs Website (public form), CRM, Sales, Inventory, Manufacturing, and Invoicing. English only in this zip (no translation files yet).

Compatibility

Odoo 19 Community or Enterprise. No Enterprise-only apps are required. Quality is a checkpoint and notes on the manufacturing order, with an optional setting that blocks Done until checked; it is not the Odoo Quality app. Artwork approval works from the portal, including a token link without login. English only in this package.

Depends: base, mail, sale_management, stock, mrp, account, portal, resource, crm, website

Changelog

19.0.1.0.0 - Control Tower OWL home: executive KPIs, production pulse, charts, date presets, drill-down, light/dark toggle - Get a Quote website form into CRM print inquiries - Print estimation with paper specs, imposition, wastage, costing, and quotation PDF - One-click Sale Order from sent or approved estimation - Plate and artwork management, portal Approve Artwork - MRP print jobs: deadline, plates, artwork, quality gate, reprint wizard, job slip and cost sheet - Portal: inquiries, estimations, jobs, artwork - Reports: quotation, job slip, production summary, cost sheet, plate label, plate inventory, artwork approval - Settings: default wastage, up per sheet, validity days, plate status, block MO done until quality checked - Daily cron: print deadline reminder activities

Questions about Printing Press Management

Inquiries are CRM leads flagged as print inquiries. Printing Press → Inquiries shows only those leads. Regular sales can keep the standard CRM pipeline and ignore the print filter.

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