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Production stages
Pending, pre-press, printing, cutting, folding, binding, QC, packaging, dispatch, delivered and completed, with stage allocation.
Job cards and production workflow for print and packaging
Print Production Job Tracker
Every print job from order to delivery through pre-press, press, finishing, QC and dispatch — with tasks, machines, deadlines and a full edit history.
AT A GLANCEPRINTING & PACKAGING
- Apps
- Internal web app
- Stages
- 12, from pending to completed
- Numbering
- Job numbers that reset each financial year
- Built with
- React, Express, PostgreSQL, Drizzle
9 MODULESBUILT AND SHIPPED
The problem
What it replaces
Print and packaging shops run on paper job cards. A job’s specification changes at the counter and the press floor never hears about it, nobody knows which stage a job is at without walking the floor, and when a job is late there is no record of who changed what.
This system replaces the paper job card. Each job carries its full specification, line items and purchase order, moves through the production stages, is broken into assigned tasks with deadlines, and prints as an A4 job card — while every edit is recorded field by field.
Who uses it
Front office
Create jobs with specifications, line items and the customer’s PO, and print job cards.
Production staff
See their tasks, stages and machines, and move jobs on.
Managers and admins
Dashboards, overdue alerts, reports, roles and the activity log.
Features
What the system does
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Financial-year job numbers
Job numbers with a prefix and the financial year, resetting automatically each year.
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Complete job form
Specifications, pre-press, printing, additional processes, cutting slip, delivery, line items, machines and the customer’s PO upload.
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Printable job card
An A4 job card generated from the job, ready for the press floor.
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Tasks and deadlines
Ordered tasks with dependencies, assigned to employees, with deadlines and overdue alerts.
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Masters
Clients, employees, departments, machines and product categories such as cartons, boxes and labels.
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Permissions
Roles with create, edit, view and delete rights per module.
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Field-level audit
Every change to a job recorded as old value and new value, by whom and when.
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Dashboard and reports
Work in progress by stage, overdue jobs and production reports.
Architecture
How the pieces fit together
Small and dependable: one Node service serves the API and the web app on a single port, with sessions and job history in PostgreSQL.
Apps
- Production web appReact SPA
- Printable job cardA4 print view
Platform
- Jobs & stages
- Tasks & deadlines
- Masters & roles
- Audit trailfield-level
Data
- PostgreSQLjobs, sessions, history
- File storagePO files
- Take the orderThe job is created with its specification and PO, and numbered.
- PlanStages and tasks are allocated to people and machines.
- ProduceThe job moves through the stages; overdue tasks are flagged.
- DispatchQC, packaging and delivery close the job, with every change on record.
Built with
- TypeScript
- React
- Vite
- Express
- PostgreSQL
- Drizzle
- Tailwind
Built before, fitted to you
Start from an architecture that has already shipped
We have delivered this kind of system, so yours starts from a design that is known to work, not a blank page. Your workflow, your terminology and your approval chain shape what we build on top of it.