Quoting & artwork intake
Receive files from brands and converters, validate up front, and quote by plate area, screening, gauge, and rush window — not gut feel.
Prepress MIS · Built for flexo trade shops
Prepress MIS software, built for flexographic trade shops.
Quote, intake, image, QC, deliver, and invoice by plate area on one system — without retrofitting a generic print MIS that was never designed for plates.
Plate area · jobs · customers · AR — one system of record
Why generic print MIS misses
Built around plates — not impressions, signatures, or sheets.
Generic print MIS systems were built for sheet-fed offset and digital. They assume the unit of business is an impression. In a flexographic prepress trade shop, the unit of business is a square inch of imaged photopolymer plate — and almost every concept downstream changes because of it.
Jobs measured in impressions, not plate area
Generic print MIS counts sheets and units. Flexo trade shops bill on the square inch of imaged photopolymer.
No model for plate gauges, types, or screening
Solvent vs. thermal vs. water-wash, 0.045″ vs. 0.067″, HD Flexo vs. Crystal — generic MIS treats it all as a free-text job spec.
Gang allocation is a spreadsheet workaround
Splitting one plate's area across multiple customer POs is the daily reality of a trade shop. Generic MIS makes it a manual export.
Converter delivery flows don't exist
A plate kit shipping to a converter's plant for a scheduled press run is not the same shipping flow as a printed-job delivery to a brand.
Flexoworks models all of this natively. Plate area, plate type, gauge, screening, gang allocation, and converter delivery are first-class entities — not custom fields on someone else's job record.
Capabilities
Every concept a plate trade shop runs on, modeled natively.
Flexoworks ships with the data model your shop already operates by — plates, gauges, gangs, converters, and rate cards as first-class entities, not custom fields bolted onto an offset MIS.
Plate-area billing engine
Read plate area directly off the step-and-repeat. Apply customer rate cards by plate type, gauge, screening, and substrate. Invoice with proof, mounting, rush, and shipping line items already attached.
Job & plate tracking
Every plate carries a job ID through imaging, washout, drying, finishing, QC, and shipping. CSRs and customers see live status without chasing the floor.
Gang allocation across POs
When small jobs share a plate for yield, allocation runs automatically against the right customer POs — no exports to spreadsheets, no margin leakage.
Converter delivery & logistics
Build kits by job, generate carrier labels, and give converters real-time receiving status — the delivery flow flexo plate makers actually run.
AR & customer ledgers
Statements, aging, and payments by brand, converter, and designer — without QuickBooks workarounds and reconciliations.
How it fits your stack
Two systems, one record. Workflow tools image plates. Flexoworks runs the business.
Flexoworks is purpose-built to sit alongside your existing prepress workflow software — not replace it. Most flexo trade shops run both.
File → 1-bit TIFF → plate imaging
Your existing workflow engine handles RIPping, screening, step-and-repeat, and CDI imaging control. It's the file-prep and imaging side of the plate.
- Esko Automation Engine
- Esko Flexo Front End
- Hybrid CLOUDFLOW
- Kodak Prinergy
Customer → job → plate area → invoice
Flexoworks runs the business layer: customers, job tickets, plate-area billing, gang allocation, plate state, converter delivery, and AR. The system of record for the trade shop.
- Plate-area billing engine
- Gang allocation across POs
- Customer & AR ledger
- Converter delivery flow
Who it's for
Built for the shapes flexo prepress actually takes.
Independent flexo prepress trade shops
100 to 10,000 plates a month. CSR teams running quotes and approvals; floor running imaging, washout, finishing, QC, ship.
Captive prepress departments
In-house prepress at converters that bills internal customers. Same data model, but rolled up against internal cost centers.
Multi-site plate makers
Two to ten plate rooms across regions or facilities. Consolidated job, customer, and AR records across sites — not separate logins.
Integrations
Connects to the tools your shop already runs on.
Flexoworks integrates with the workflow, accounting, shipping, and CRM systems most flexo trade shops have already invested in. The MIS layer should connect — not displace.
- Prepress workflow
- Esko Automation Engine
- Esko Flexo Front End
- Hybrid CLOUDFLOW
- Kodak Prinergy
- Accounting & GL
- QuickBooks Online
- Sage Intacct
- NetSuite ERP
- Shipping & logistics
- ShipStation
- FedEx Web Services
- UPS APIs
- Sales & CRM
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Pipedrive
Questions
Common buyer questions
Is Flexoworks a prepress workflow tool or an MIS?
Flexoworks is an MIS and ERP — the system of record for customers, jobs, plates, and invoices. It connects to prepress workflow tools like Esko Automation Engine, Esko Flexo Front End, Hybrid CLOUDFLOW, and Kodak Prinergy. It does not replace them.Can it replace our existing print MIS?
For flexographic plate trade shops, yes. Generic print MIS systems were built for sheet-fed offset and digital printing. Flexoworks models plate area, photopolymer gauges, screening technologies, and the gang-allocation math native to flexo prepress — out of the box, not as custom workflow builds.How is Flexoworks priced?
Per active user, with usage tiers based on monthly plate area billed. See /pricing for the breakdown.Does it handle plate-area billing automatically?
Yes. Plate area reads off the step-and-repeat at imaging time, the rate card applies by plate type and substrate, and every line item — file prep, proof, mounting, rush, shipping — is captured at intake. No manual measuring, no spreadsheet exports.Can we still use Esko, Kodak, or Hybrid prepress workflow tools?
Yes. Flexoworks is built to sit alongside them. Job tickets, customer specs, and finished plate data exchange with your workflow tool so the two systems stay in sync.
See Flexoworks against your stack
A 30-minute walkthrough on your real plate workflow.
Compare Flexoworks against your current MIS, your prepress workflow tool, or your spreadsheets. Quote, intake, plate area, gang allocation, AR — all on real shop data, in 30 minutes.