Guide · UPrint Studio RIP and Design RIP · Queue Manager

Run your print shop from the Queue Manager

Name every job, print it when the paper is in, follow it to the door, and see what you made. Two parts: the Queue Manager under the canvas, and Job history behind it.

UPrint Design RIP with a design on the canvas and the Queue Manager under it, showing prices, profit and the Today bar
The Queue Manager under the canvas. Example shop. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

Part 1: The Queue Manager

The Queue Manager is the list under the canvas. Every job you print, or save for later, is there with its picture. Drag its top edge up to see more rows. Why it matters for your profit.

1Every job gets a name, a picture and a customer

The app names each job for you, from the file name or the biggest words on your design. A small picture shows what is on it.

  1. Click the pencil beside the job's name. Or right-click the job and pick Name and customer...
  2. Type the name and the customer.

The row shows the new name, with the customer under it.

Type the customer once. Job history keeps them, so you can find all their jobs later.

The Queue Manager with six jobs, each with a picture, a name, a customer, a price and a stage
Six jobs, each with its picture, name and customer. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

2Save a job and print it later

  1. In the Print pane, press Print later
  2. When the paper is in, press Print on the job.
  3. Or press Print all held to print every held job.

The job waits in the Queue Manager as HELD, with its design and its settings.

A held job is still there after you close the app.

The Job box with Test print, Estimate cost, Print later and Reset all settings
Print later, in the Job box. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

3Group the held jobs by paper

  1. Press Group by paper in the Queue Manager's top bar.
  2. Load the paper for the first group.
  3. Press Print this group. Only that group prints.

Jobs on the same printer, paper and white sit together under one header, oldest first.

You change the paper once per group, not once per job.

Held jobs under two paper headers, each with a Print this group button
Two papers, two groups, one button each. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

4Set your prices once

  1. Press the tag button in the Queue Manager's top bar.
  2. Under Your prices, type what you charge for one copy of each sheet size.
  3. Fill in DTF film per metre and the blank (shirt, apron, mug), if you use them.
  4. Press Save

Every job takes the price of its size, and shows its profit beside it.

One job at a different price? Click its price in the queue and type the new one.

Your prices: A5 $2.50, A4 $4.00, A3 $6.50, DTF film per metre, blank each
Cost settings, Your prices. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

Profit = your price, less the print, less the blank

The example job in the pictures: Tiger Gym hoodies, 18 copies at $7.50 each, no blank.

Your price, each$7.50
Print cost, each$0.59
Profit on the job$124.38

5Follow each job to the door

A printed job says PRINTED.

  1. When it comes off the press, click Pressed
  2. When it is packed, click Packed
  3. When the customer has it, click Collected

The Today bar at the top shows what today's jobs sold, what they made and what misprints cost.

Clicked too soon? Right-click the job and step back.

Price and stage columns: held jobs, a misprint, Packed with a Collected button, Pressed with a Packed button
Each job's stage, and the button for the next one. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64
Today: sales $255.00, profit $224.88, waste $3.66
The Today bar. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

6Mark a misprint, and say why

  1. Right-click the job and pick Misprint...
  2. Pick why: paper jam, colour off, white too thin, wrong size, customer changed it, or other.
  3. Press Save

The row says MISPRINT. Its cost counts as waste, not a sale.

Job history shows where the waste went, so you can fix the cause.

The Misprint window with six reasons and a Save button
Misprint, and why. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

Where the waste went

The example month in the pictures: 3 misprints.

$20.823 misprints
  • Paper jam$11.80
  • Colour off$5.36
  • White too thin$3.66

7Find any job, and keep the ones that matter

  1. Type a job name or a customer in the search box, at the top of the Queue Manager.
  2. Press the star beside a job's name to keep its design for good.
  3. Press the star button at the top to see only starred jobs.

Only the jobs that match stay in the list.

The app keeps up to 2 GB of past designs, oldest out first. Starred and held jobs always stay.

The search box with tiger typed and one Tiger Gym job shown
"tiger" finds the Tiger Gym job. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

Part 2: Job history

Press the clock button at the top of the Queue Manager. Every finished job is in Job history, also after the app closes, with its totals on top: jobs, media, spend, sales, profit and waste.

8Open a past job

Each job in Job history has four buttons:

  1. Edit puts the design back on the canvas, ready to change.
  2. Add to queue puts it back in the queue, held, with the settings it printed with.
  3. Print again prints it now, with those settings.
  4. Note adds a note to the job.

After Edit, the bar at the bottom says your design is reopened, every text and shape live.

Job history: totals on top, then each job with Edit, Add to queue, Note and Print again
Job history, the Jobs tab. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

9Find past jobs, and see your best customers

  1. Pick a customer, a printer, a result or the dates at the top. Or type in the search box.
  2. Press Download CSV to save the rows you see.
  3. Open the Customers tab. Click a customer to see all their jobs.

The totals at the top follow what you picked. Your best customers are listed first.

The Customers tab: seven customers with jobs, sales, profit and waste
The Customers tab. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

10See your money per day, week or month

  1. Open the Money tab.
  2. Pick per day, per week or per month.

Sales and profit stand side by side for each day. Waste shows below the line.

The Money tab: sales and profit bars per day for two weeks, waste below the line
The Money tab, per day. Example shop. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

11Know when to reorder

The Used tab shows the toner for each colour and the sheets for each size. On a DTF printer, ink, film and powder too.

  1. When you put in a new cartridge, pick the printer and the colour.
  2. Press I put in a new cartridge
  3. For a DTF ink tank, type the ml and press I filled the DTF ink

Under a fifth left, the top of the Queue Manager shows Low: and the colour.

It is a count from the box's rating and what printed since. The app cannot see inside the printer.

The Used tab: toner per colour, sheets, and what is left in each cartridge
The Used tab. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

12Add a note to a job

  1. Right-click the job and pick Add a note...
  2. Type the note, for example: "Customer wants it darker next time."

The note shows under the job in Job history, and the search finds it.

The right-click menu: next stage, back, add a note, misprint, open on canvas, name and customer, print again
Right-click a job. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

13Make the month report and a statement

  1. Pick the month, then press Month report PDF
  2. For a statement, pick the customer and the dates.
  3. Press Statement PDF

The statement lists the customer's jobs, the price of each and the total. A misprint says no charge.

Statement PDF for Tiger Gym with its jobs and a total of $231.00
A statement, made by the app. UPrint Design RIP 1.3.64

A day in the shop

Five habits. Each one is a button you already have.

  • MorningOpen the Queue Manager. Press Group by paper, and print each group.
  • All dayPress Print later for jobs that can wait. Click Pressed, Packed, Collected as jobs move.
  • A print goes wrongRight-click the job, Misprint..., and say why.
  • End of the dayRead the Today bar.
  • End of the monthMonth report PDF, and a Statement PDF for each customer who pays later.
The same Queue Manager in UPrint Studio RIP
The same Queue Manager in Studio RIP. UPrint Studio RIP 1.3.64

Try it on your own printer

7 day free trial, no card. Every tool, on your own computer. Download Studio RIP or Design RIP. Both have the Queue Manager, your prices and Job history.

Download the free trial

On day 8 the app locks until you buy. Pay with the same email and it unlocks by itself. One free trial per computer and per email.

Names, customers, prices and notes stay on your computer. They are not sent anywhere. Pictures and numbers come from an example shop, not a real one.

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