Hdruk

Automation or extra staff for a steep growth curve?

Hdruk, a spirited printing company from Bruges, offers its customers a total solution: from prepress to finished product, both offset and digital printing. The trump card of this family-run printer (with a team of four), which serves mainly fellow printers, is its flexibility and fast deliveries. In order to continue to meet the increasing demand, Hdruk has invested heavily in its machinery, particularly Heidelberg machines. This, of course, requires a sound administration. And extra staff, because more work means more required manpower, right?

New start with MultiPress for extensive automation

In order to maximise the return on recent investments, it was also necessary to further align and optimise the administrative processes. The former FileMaker application lacked basic accessibility and sometimes important things slipped through the net. And they didn’t want that to happen again at Hdruk…

Together with Dataline’s project manager, this ambitious company drew up an inventory of all possible processes where there is still room for further automation:

• Can quotations and orders be further automated?
• Can the Heidelberg workflow be integrated and made faster in the prepress workflow?
• Can invoicing be fully integrated?
• How can management keep its finger on the pulse?

As a result, Hdruk decided to automate its entire workflow. For example, the existing MultiPress configuration (since 2010) has been supplemented with the following modules: Calculation Wizard, Purchasing, Check & Repair, JDF, Invoicing and Reporting.

Better for the customer

The advantages of administrative automation are obvious to Hdruk. But they found another reason to use MultiPress: the customer. Faster and correct quotations, completely in line with the corporate identity of the company, are undeniably beneficial to their image. And that professionalism fits perfectly with the delivered quality of Hdruk!

Lights-out manufacturing

This is a perfect example of a graphics company with a large amount of ‘lights-out manufacturing’ that can achieve its objectives thanks to MultiPress. And all with the same number of staff. This provides this family business with a lot of money and time savings, which also benefits their customers – their fellow printers!