Dimo – Set-up first printing

Follow these instructions to successfully create a print order.

• Go to menu item:
  Production – 1st Printing

Work through the sections on this page as follows;

1. Summary
   • Check and if necessary update the production status to ensure it reflects where the title currently is in its life cycle
   • Give the status of the Order Status. The main statuses are
     • Draft – This order is not ready to be submitted
     • Purchased – This order has been sent to the printer
     • Received – This order has been received from the printer
   • Costing Qty and Forecast qty should only be updated if this is not the final order
2. Quote details (optional)
   • If you have received a quote for this order then fill in the details here
3. Print Order
   • Fill in the printer
     • Printers are gathered from your supplier list
     • Defaults can be set by printer. If there fields that should always be the same when a printer is selected you can ask for that configuration to be made.
   • Print order # – this is automatically populated but you can change it to your own number if you like. It must be unique however.
   • Unit Price – The cost per unit you will be paying. This will also calculate the total price.
   • Run-on (Optional) – If you have agreed on a run on cost you can enter this here.
   • Enter Quantities (Aus, UK, US, Author, Other)
     • Enter the quantities that need to go to each location. The delivery instructions can be set for each title.
4. Book Details
   • If you are producing a standard book then you should fill in the basic details for the book here.
   • If this IS NOT a standard book product you should leave this section BLANK
5. Binding Details
   • If you are producing a standard book then you should fill in the basic details for the book here.
   • If this IS NOT a standard book product you should leave this section BLANK
6. Printing
   • This is the way the print order is to be consolidated together. For every section that makes up your book or product, you should enter a section in here
   • Use the fields as follows
     • Section – the type of section it is
     • Pages – the number of pages the section applies to
     • Colour – the colour application
     • Height – Width
     • Detail – additional detail about the section
     • On Stock – The stock that applies to this section
     • Stock finish – the finish of the stock
   • Example: A Hardback book with a ribbon would have 3 sections
     • HB
     • TEXT
     • RIBBON
7. Packaging
   • If applicable you can put in the packaging instructions for the print order. Packaging instructions should normally be pre-populated with the set-up from the printer
8. Material Supplied
   • Enter in here details about the materials that you will supply to the printer
9. Proofing requirements
   • Enter in the type of proofs you want and then any specific details about what you require.
10. Schedule
    • Enter in the schedule for this print order. Depending on the complexity of the order will depend on how many schedule points you want to monitor.
    • Your publisher set-up will determine which of those schedule dates appear on your print order.
11. Advances
    • The detail on the advances you would like supplied for this print order.
    • Advance defaults can automatically be entered based on the printer defaults.
12. Delivery Instructions
    • Delivery instructions default to the values for the printer, however, if you need modifications you can edit it here
13. Approvals (Optional)
    • It is not compulsory by default to authorize a Print Order. By using this option it will add the authoriser/s name to the print order and record when this happened.
14. Save or Print Order
    • When finished click here to Print or Save the order.
    • Always use Print Word New.

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