ERP for printing businesses
Carbon is the ERP built only for print shops. Price a job in seconds, move it through pre‑press, press and finishing on a live board, and bill it with GST — without job cards going missing between the counter and the press.
Built for every kind of press
Sound familiar?
“Can you send the rate by evening?”
Quoting means a calculator, last year’s paper rate card and an hour you don’t have — and the wastage still gets missed.
The Print Estimator works out ups, sheets, waste, plates and finishing. The quotation is one click away.
“Is my job printed yet?”
Someone walks the floor, checks the job bag, calls the press operator, and calls the customer back.
The production board shows every job by stage, and customers check their own orders in the portal.
“I’ll send the payment next week.”
Bills go out late, follow-ups depend on memory, and nobody knows what is really outstanding.
Invoices are raised from the job, and overdue reminders go out on WhatsApp from your own number.
The flow
Carbon follows a print job the way your shop already works — the same ten stages you see on its production board, from the first phone call to the delivery challan.
Phase 01 · Sales
Log the enquiry, price it in the Print Estimator, and send a GST quotation in minutes. When the customer says yes, the quote becomes a job ticket with every print spec already filled in.
Phase 02 · Pre-press
Designers run a timer against the job, then send the proof to the customer for sign-off. Nothing goes to press until the proof is approved, and the approval stays on the ticket.
Phase 03 · Press
Plates, paper and press set-up are tracked at make-ready, and the job moves to “Printing” on a live board. Same-day rush orders jump the queue without derailing everything else.
Phase 04 · Post-press
Lamination, die-cutting, binding and the final quality check are part of the job, with tasks assigned to the people doing them. Half-finished work never slips out of the door.
Phase 05 · Dispatch
Print the delivery challan, track the job until it is received, raise the GST invoice and send payment reminders from your own WhatsApp Business number.
Features
Generic ERPs make you bend print work to fit invoices and inventory. Carbon starts from the job ticket, and speaks GSM, ups, plates and finishing from day one.
Print Estimator
Pick the press sheet, the paper and the finishing. Carbon works out the imposition, the sheets you will really use and what the job costs — then turns it into a quotation.
Job tickets & production board
Each job ticket carries its print specs — size, paper, GSM, colours, finishing — and moves across the board from pre-press to press to finishing. Anyone can see what is running late without walking the floor.
Quotations, invoices & payments
Quotations and invoices come straight from the job, with an HSN or SAC code and a GST rate on every line. Carbon splits CGST and SGST or charges IGST, records what was paid and chases what is overdue.
Cost & profit
Paper, plates, labour and outside work are set against what the job was billed for, so you see the margin on every job. Your staff see the work; only you see the money.
The dashboard
What is on press, what is due today, what came in and what is still owed — the moment you open Carbon.
Open Carbon on any computer at the counter or in the office. Nothing to install.
A desktop app for the machines that stay on all day next to the press.
Share a link and customers see their own orders, invoices and deliveries.
Decide what each person can see and do. Every change is recorded.
Modules
Everything a print business runs on, from the front counter to payroll, grouped the way the Carbon sidebar groups it.
Printing businesses: offset presses, digital print studios, flex and large-format shops, packaging and label printers, screen printers and design-and-print agencies. Every screen is built around print work — job tickets, GSM, ups, plates, proofs and finishing — not a generic list of products.
Yes. Quotations and invoices carry a GST rate and an HSN or SAC code on every line, and Carbon works out CGST and SGST or IGST on each bill. Quick counter jobs for walk-in customers are kept simple, so the front desk is not slowed down.
Yes. Users and roles decide what each person can open. Designers, press operators and the accountant each see what their work needs, and the profit numbers stay with the owner. An activity log records every change.
No. Carbon runs in the browser on any computer. There are also desktop apps for Mac and Windows for the machines that stay on all day in the shop.
Yes. Share a Customer Portal link and the customer sees their orders, invoices and deliveries without calling you. Proofs go to them for sign-off before anything goes to press, and invoices and reminders can go out on your own WhatsApp Business number.
Book a demo. We will walk you through Carbon on the kind of work you do and help you get your team set up.
Book a demo
Tell us a little about your shop. We will show you Carbon on the kind of jobs you print every day — estimates, job tickets, the production board and GST billing.
