Processes - Create new processes
This is where you enter details on the various ‘colour process’ options you can produce on your presses. All this is managed from ‘processes’ under ‘Inventory’ in the ‘Configure the Factory’ screen.

The following box will appear:

Here you can enter all the specific process details.


A Process Short Name is limited to 15 characters
A Process Description is limited to 255 characters
A process Customer Description is limited to 50 characters
Once completed, click ‘Add’.

The process information will now be added to a list at the bottom of the screen.
You need to do this for all the different ‘process’ combinations you produce.
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