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Our Products
Types of print
Antares M I S is flexible and suited to many kinds of print. Each version of Antares is written specifically for that appropriate field of print.
Antares Product Range
Antares is a modular system, which enables you to buy and build according to your company demands. We have packages that concentrate on estimating only, or we can provide packages that give you a full blown M.I.S system including estimating, job bags, production control, and through to invoicing and accounts.
Antares/Litho
… is suitable for general commercial work using sheet–fed
offset presses, accommodating such equipment as GTO, MO, Speedmaster etc
for such applications as business stationery, leaflets, NCR pads/books
and colour books and booklets.
Antares is also suited to web-fed equipment such as reel-to-reel, reel-to-sheet or reel-to-continuous.
Antares/Screen Process
… is suitable for point of sale, promotional work, T-shirts, accommodating
such equipment as Svecia, Thieme screen-print for applications in point
of sale displays, posters, window stickers, volume T-Shirts printed on
carousels and so-on
Antares/Large format
digital
… is suited to reel to sheet or reel to reel, accommodating such
equipment as Epson and Vutek ink-jet printers, reel fed for applications
in hemmed and eyeleted banners, usually on a PVC material.and large display
posters usually as one-offs or in small quantities.
Antares/Digital
… is suitable for work such as low-volume reports (e.g. newsletters
and business reports), flyers, business cards and other work printed digitally
accommodating such equipment as Xerox Docucolor range, Ricoh and Toshiba.
Mixed environments
We recognise that some printing companies incorporate a variety of print
types. For example, Litho and screen process. Because of this Antares
is able to accommodate more than one type of print within the same package.
Origination
and Finishing
All the common origination and finishing processes for each kind of print
above are provided with Antares.
Antares Product Range.
Antares is a modular system, which enables you to buy and build according to your company demands.
Antares Lite
… is our entry level system for companies who identify quoting as their bottleneck. Lite provides a full estimating package complete with customer and contact databases and the facility to create lists of papers and prices to simplify the quoting process.
All quotes can be created, stored, retrieved and sent to the customer as a conventional letter, or as a fax or e-mail sent directly from your PC.
For many companies, responding to enquiries with a quote, quickly and accurately and with a professional appearance is increasingly difficult when quotes are prepared manually. Antares Lite has been designed specifically to resolve these issues.
Antares Plus
… is the next step forward. Plus has all the facilities included in Lite with the addition of job bags, job filing/job history by customer, delivery notes and invoicing. Plus can also link into your Sage Line 50 and feed automatically into your accounts system.
As well as computerised estimating, Antares Plus will automate much of your production administration.
Plus will print a detailed and legible job bag for every order and will store details permanently in a computer file according to the relevant customer. If Antares has quoted your order, then the job bag is produced automatically. Once the job has been produced, Antares can output a delivery note and invoice.
Plus can produce daily schedules of jobs in hand, lists pending deliveries and in the preferred order. Each month, Antares Plus can produce schedules of the month’s orders showing quantity and value and the month’s invoices.
Finally, Plus stores all jobs by customer. This means that when your customer orders a repeat or enquires about a previous job, you can find it at the press of a button.
Antares Platinum
… is the full M I S version of Antares.
As well as focusing on sales and production, Platinum adds job costing and cost control into the equation.
Platinum provides a means of analysing cost overruns on individual jobs, which might be chargeable to the customer.
Platinum provides factual information at the end of each year, which will allow you to compare your estimating rates with actual production rates in each department, therefore determining if estimating rates are realistic.
Platinum will also allow you to analyse jobs according to your own criteria (e.g. business type, geographic area, type of work etc) which can be used to give guidance on marketing strategies.
Finally, Platinum comes with a set of tools to allow Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access to interrogate the Antares databases and extend Antares with new programs that you wish to create such as new reports etc.