MultiPress software is continuously evolving. Countless new features let you to further automate your company’s administrative and production workflows. MultiPress 5.1.02 comes with a host of innovations that will help you save even more time and money while increasing your efficiency. What is new in MultiPress? Discover the most important features here.

What’s new?

• Improved search functionality for selecting orders in a combination order. 
  • If you want to select orders to include them in a combination order, you can make use of three extra search parameters.
    • Print sheet type: This handy parameter allows you to search for posters or flyers, for example. Previously, you’d have to rely on the description, which wasn’t always clear.
    • Delivery date: By adding this option, you can take the desired delivery date into account
    • Printing technique: This ensures that you know which orders are digital, offset, screen print etc. when combining your job. This helps you avoid combining a digital job with an offset job, for example.
• Smart purchasing with the delivery button and extra selection criteria.
  • The smart delivery button gives you a full overview of the current reservations. You can filter quickly by what items are below minimum stock, items with a negative available stock. We will also display the different paper sources, which is crucial for purchasing. 
    You have various search and filter criteria at your disposal, allowing you to take a smarter approach to your purchases and save time.  Not only can you make dozens of purchases in a single click, for example, but if you have set up the material rates, you can also make efficient use of the Multisupplier narrative. Prices and delivery times can be viewed and compared at this level, allowing efficient purchasing.
• Attachments can be linked to the invoice in the order.
  • For customers who use the folder structure, a new tag has been added: “InvoiceAttachments”. All documents you place here are automatically sent with the invoice for this order as an attachment.
• Combination calculation takes into account finishing in large format.
  • From this version onwards, it’s possible to calculate the finishing within a combination calculation or combination order using the Large-format finishing module. 

• Simplified colour input for digital*.

  • In the Digital Module, print colours are now always entered via a pull-down list, replacing the 4/4 principle in separate fields. The old combinations have therefore been converted to a “print colours” pull-down list, which you can find in the Pull-down lists module. All the combinations you created in the past will be set up for you in this list after the upgrade. This ensures smoother integration with the wizard and the JDF engine. This also ensures, for example, that you can work with qualities. For instance, you can have an economic 4/4 and a High Def 4/4. The print colours are also linked to the content of the “colours” button.

• Shipment Planning: Delivered

  • The “delivered” checkbox that you used to check when a shipment had left or had been delivered has moved and now appears in the bottom section of shipment planning, in the U column. You can right-click on the column to indicate that the row has been delivered. Three more columns have also been added:

    • C: Changed 
    • R: Registered
    • P: Picked up

• Further development of Forwarding Flow in terms of bulk shipments

  • After the upgrade, when you drag lines in shipment planning to the bottom (planned) section, the software will automatically check the lines on the same delivery note. If applicable, a popup will appear, asking whether you wish to include these lines as well.
    The same applies to logging lines with forwarders. (nShift, Sendcloud, MyParcel, Unifaun)
    You should always log just one line; the other lines that should be on the delivery note will automatically have a tick in the “delivered” column.

• Importing addresses into an order depending on the version has been optimised considerably

  • For customers who use the Addresses module, it is now possible to import address lists where no figures have been filled in and where there are versions in the order. In this case, MultiPress ensures that the print run will be divided up by address and by version. This means you can get an overview quickly. Of course, you can still adjust the distribution afterwards.

• Features of a product are now also shown in the Stock module and can be searched.
  • For each material group, you can create extra specification labels via the “features” button. Once you have defined these, you will see that an extra tab has been added in the material. If you want to include material in a calculation/order/purchase, you can apply a filter for each label created, using the “search value” field.
• Integration of Workflower in an optimiser for each order and/or combination module.
  • With the optimiser, MultiPress allows you to create a combination directly from the calculation or order. This will carry out optimisation across the sublines and versions. This option links in directly with the smart Workflower engine. You can purchase this depending on your own requirements. A light or full subscription is needed in order to use this functionality. Various formulas are available depending on the printing technique, number of calculations, number of versions etc. Contact Application Support for more information. 

• Intrastat reporting for selling and purchasing extended

  • In the settings of our invoicing module, you can now enter Intrastat codes for both purchasing and selling. For selling, you can select these codes in the subline of an invoice, and for purchasing they can be fed in from the supplier record. Codes can also be selected manually when entering the purchase invoice. For customers who already have integration for Intrastat, contact Application Support.

• Print format options in Laminate module refined.
  • When using the Laminate module, the minimum print format appears at the top by default. Previously, this was set to be the same as the paper format, but now this has been fine-tuned. An image can be much smaller and therefore be laminated with a smaller laminate format. 
• Net surface area and perimeter have been added in finishing in the Large format wizard.
  • After the upgrade, when setting up a wizard object, it will be possible to calculate the net material use. This needs to be set up for each wizard object.

• Ink and coating split in print sheet calculation*

  • Previously, there was a limitation for taking coating into account. There was only one option and sometimes you had to be a little creative. Now that’s a thing of the past. After this upgrade, you can extend the old coating rate to take into account several coatings or varnishes. Your original coating calculation will therefore still be available in your updated MultiPress, which means that calculations and orders entered before the upgrade that included coating calculations will still work correctly. It is therefore very important that this standard parameter is extended rather than changed. You can also create “extra” colours under the special colours in the basic rates and these can in turn be linked to the print colours, which are linked to a printing process in the pull-down lists. When using the wizard, if this special colour is used, this will be detected and filled in automatically, provided that your coating press is set up correctly.

• Work & tumble and work & turn with unequal distribution

  • After the upgrade, where you previously defined whether to work & tumble or work & turn, you can now also specify that the printing should be the same on both sides. You can do this via the combination (GLK). MultiPress will deal with this intelligently and look at the orientation of the model to determine whether work & tumble or work & turn is necessary.

• Various API extensions*

  • A new filter is available in GetArticlesList. It allows you to quickly retrieve the underlying ID of a material. It is also possible to enter the note that needs to appear when creating invoices via the API. You can do this via handlejobQuotationsDetails with the invoice_data field. It is now also possible to adjust the cost centre and cost owner for each subline of the invoice via the API, using the call “modifyCostCenterPlace”

• Various extensions in JDF

  • The JDF module has been updated due to new technologies within 4th Dimension. Extensive testing has been performed with Heidelberg and Agfa, but we cannot rule out all contingencies. As we know how important JDF is for your organisation, we have a trial version of MultiPress available that allows you to test business-critical processes before updating. Please contact us for this trial version.
    Customers with Heidelberg and a link to Pressroom Manager cannot upgrade to 5.1.02. Heidelberg needs to fix a bug first, related to figures that no longer come through correctly.

• Stock valuation can now be performed via First In First Out methodology.
  • For customers who use the Management module for stock, there is now the option of calculating your stock value using the FIFO method under the “history” tab. 

• New features in the report generator, such as conditional formatting

  • The updated report generator that you will be familiar with from version 5.1 now has a few extra features. This can mean added value for customers who currently have an ODBC link. This link can now be used via this updated tool. A new export type has been added, which generates a CSV file. This also allows you to generate the CSV dump overnight, via an automatic action, so that it does not need to be handled during the day.
  • When using the wizard button, it is now possible to use multi-select.
  • Changes have also been made in order to make conditional formatting possible.

• Dashboard

  • The dashboard has been completely overhauled. You can now even create your own dashboard, customised to your own needs and preferences. If you already had this module set to active, the standard dashboard is supplied as it would have appeared just before the upgrade, but you can now extend it. You also have the option of creating a separate dashboard for each type of employee. The dashboard can also be consulted from the client itself.

• Delivery addresses can be adjusted from the order in a different way
  • It is now possible to modify delivery addresses from the order more efficiently. You can do this very easily by right-clicking on the contact person. Right-clicking on the company allows you to quickly change the delivery company or choose another client from the database yourself, without it having to be linked to the job. In this extended version, multiselect can also be used.
• Impose.

  • For customers who use the Impose Module and have the colour strip set to centred, the horizontal distance along both sides is calculated and is truncated at a full block.

• General invoice sender

  • In the invoicing settings, it is possible to sign the invoices as “general”. If this option is active, you will send the invoice via e-mail using a general e-mail address, which can be defined under the “company details” button.

• Create article code automatically.
  • If you had the “create article code automatically” setting set to active, MultiPress will also apply this to the items in the customer inventory. A new row will be added under the module numbers.