Costing & Estimating

💡These articles explain Cost Centres, standard and product estimating, estimating settings, custom board sizes, sheeting, label printing, continuous forms and outsourced items.

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• Continuous Forms Estimate Type: Describes how to set up and estimate continuous forms, including Printing Types, Substrates, presses and Parts.
• Cost Centres: Describes the Cost Centre fields, costs and wizard used to calculate hourly rates for estimating.
• Cost Centres Process Guide: Sets out how to calculate Cost Centre hourly rates, including overheads, and how to set them up.
• Custom Board Sizes: Describes how to estimate custom-sized packaging board by the square metre and how to set it up.
• Estimating Settings & Info: Lists the estimating models, the general and user settings for estimating and the estimate codes.
• Label Printing: Describes the label estimate specification, cylinders, dies, settings and Substrate costings.
• Outsourced Items Tutorial: Shows how to set up the lookup lists and services for outsourced (outwork) estimates and how to add an outsourced estimate to a Quotation.
• Product Estimating: Lists the Product Estimating pages: products, costings, estimate types and tutorials for boxes, labels and signage.
• Sheeting: Describes how to set up and estimate unprinted sheets cut from sheets or reels.
• Standard Estimating: Lists the Standard Estimating pages: presses, Printing Types, parts, substrates, services and worked examples.