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That request-for-quotes stack in your in-box is about to get smaller. Here is what we know: Nodody likes to quote booklets. The only thing more onerous is having to repeatedly revise those quotes, with a calculator and paper and pencil. We know that because, for 30-odd years, we consistently migrated booklet quotes to the bottom of the pile ourselves when we ran the Unitac Print Shop.
That was then. Meet your new best friend, version 2008.3 of Morning Flight. Embedded in the upgraded Silver and Gold Editions, the Booklet Module lets you quote booklets nearly as easily as letterheads and post cards. A few more buttons to push, sure, but all the drudgery has been programmed out of it, taken over by the munchkins in the Morning Flight pricing engine.
For a quick Fly-By, click the F2, F3, and F4 buttons below.
A major improvement in all three editions is the way Custom Products are entered. Offset, Copy, and Digital are now all on the same tabbed window, allowing a quick comparison of which method is most cost-effective for a particular quantity.
Because of significant technology advances in the Copy and Digital field (not to mention the changed economic climate), both black and color prices were due for a makeover. In line with today's typical maintenance agreements, the defaults for Digital are now based on click charges rather than consumables.
If you're downloading for the first time, the new prices are automatically installed with the program. Not so with upgrades. We're obviously not going to overwrite the pricing you've already established. If you're ready to make a change, the screens below will help you make the adjustments.
With Digital, all you need to revise are the 1C and 4C Digital Presses in My Shop. Because Copy prices are part of the product, you'll need to update each Copy Product individually from within My Store. Easy to do. Just enter the first value (0.075) and the last (0.050), then click the Sort button (third from the left) and let the program fill in the rest.
The rest are incremental refinements too numerous to list. Seeing that the Gold beta is still a free download, it's clearly a good idea to upgrade. The current beta version won't expire or self-destruct at the end of the test cycle.
