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Pilot shops printing on it today

One login,
from stock check
to shipped.

Quoting, the production calendar, the shop floor and customer hand-off run in one system. Stop paying four vendors to keep four half-answers about the same job.

Open the live demo → Book a demo call
No card, no contract — tell us what you run and we'll get you into the real app, loaded with a shop's worth of data.
Replaces the tabs you keep open
S&S Activewear Printavo Quote spreadsheet Whiteboard Floor group text
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Main Dashboard Hub
JR
Joseph R.
Good morning, Joseph
Here's your shop today.
Thursday, July 23 · Shop is open · 4 stations online
Active orders
18
5 quotes awaiting approval
Today's jobs
11
2 rush orders in flight
Blocked
2
Waiting on blank goods
Pipeline
$47,910
6 open POs to suppliers
Presses today
Auto Press 1
Automatic · 540 pcs today
3
jobs
Auto Press 2
Automatic · 750 pcs today
6
jobs
Embroidery
Emb · 110 pcs today
2
jobs
Upcoming deadlines
SO-1042 RUSH
North High School
Today
Jul 23
SO-1046
Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden
3d
Jul 26
SO-1051
Grace Church
5d
Jul 28
Jobs run through Ink Works this week
North High School Grace Church Tioga-Sequoia Beer Garden Valley Auto Group Riverside Youth League
The actual problem

One job. Four systems that each know a piece of it.

Nobody loses an order on purpose. It gets lost in the gap between the tab that has the stock, the sheet that has the price, the board that has the schedule, and the text thread that has the change.

Today · order SO-1042
S&S Activewear tab
Has the stock. Doesn't know the job exists.
Quote spreadsheet
Has the price. Last edited by someone else.
Whiteboard by the press
Has the schedule. Only if you're standing there.
Group text + email chain
Has the change the customer asked for at 4pm.
Four places to check before you can answer "where is my order?"
In Ink Works · order SO-1042
Quoted from live S&S stock
JUL 14
Art approved by the customer
JUL 17
Booked onto Auto Press 1
JUL 21
Printing now on Auto Press 1
10:42 AM
Ship via ShipStation
DUE JUL 23
One record. Anyone in the shop can answer it in four seconds.
The four-step tour

Walk one order all the way through.

Or ask us for a walkthrough of the real thing →
STEP 01
Quote it
Live stock, your rates
STEP 02
Schedule it
Onto a real press slot
STEP 03
Print it
The floor updates itself
STEP 04
Hand it off
Shipped and invoiced
Quoting & Automation Hub
S&S ACTIVEWEAR · AUTHENTICATED
Garment search
gildan 5000 heavy cotton
TEE
Gildan 5000 · Heavy Cotton Tee
Black · S–3XL
4,820 in stock
TEE
Bella+Canvas 3001 · Jersey Tee
Black · S–3XL
610 in stock
Stock by supplier
S&S Activewear
LIVE
Illinois3,140
Nevada1,680
SanMar
NO KEY
Reno · Dallas — paste a key in Settings to connect.
Smart PO Splitter
288 pcs routed to S&S Illinois — one warehouse covers the run, so it ships as a single PO instead of two partials.
Order SO-1061 · Quote
North High School
Athletics · 288 tees · screen print, 3 colors
288 × Gildan 5000 blanks$1,048.32
Screen print · 288 @ $4.50$1,296.00
Setup$30.00
Total$2,374.32
Rates come from your pricing matrix — screen print, 144+ pcs, $4.50 each with a $30 setup. Nobody types a price.
Capacity check
Auto Press 1 has the first slot big enough — earliest run Tue Jul 21.
Ship by Thu Jul 23 at the earliest — 4 days for blanks to land and screens to burn.
Use Jul 23
Convert to order →
Master Production Calendar
Day Week Month Year
Tuesday, July 22 · 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Waiting on blanks Waiting on screens / art Fully staged
Press
8A
9A
10A
11A
12P
1P
2P
3P
4P
5P
Auto Press 1
Automatic
SO-1042RUSH
North High School · 288 pcs · printing
SO-1049
Riverside Youth League · 240 pcs
Auto Press 2
Automatic
SO-1044
Kern Co. · waiting on blanks
SO-1046
Tioga-Sequoia · 150 pcs
Manual Press
Manual
SO-1051
Grace Church · screens burning
Embroidery
Embroidery
SO-1053
Valley Auto · 60 caps
11
Jobs this week
2,364
Pieces
1
Waiting on art / screens
1
Blocked · waiting on blanks
Drag a job to move it. Completed work won't budge — you can't rewrite the past.
Shop Floor Terminal
LIVE
AUTO PRESS 1 · MARCUS · SHIFT A
On this press now
SO-1042
RUSH
North High School
288 pcs · 3 colors · black Gildan 5000 · due today
SCHEDULED STAGING SETUP PRINTING COMPLETE
STARTED 8:04 AM · EST. 4H 00M · ON AUTO PRESS 1
✓ Complete Job
⚠ Log Spoilage / Misprint
Buttons are sized for a gloved hand on a tablet by the press.
Queue on this press
SO-1049
WAITING ON ART
Riverside Youth League · 240 pcs
SO-1058
SCHEDULED
Fresno Trail Runners · 120 pcs
SO-1039
COMPLETED
Valley Auto Group · 400 pcs
Other stations
Auto Press 2● PRINTING
Manual Press● SETUP
Embroidery● STAGING
Every tap moves the job through scheduled → staging → setup → printing → complete, and the dashboard, calendar and customer status move with it.
TABLET-OPTIMIZED
Orders · SO-1042
All 31 Quotes 5 Approved 3 In production 4 Ready 2 Shipped 14 Invoiced 9
Hand-off
3 of 3 jobs completed · 4 pcs spoiled, logged at the press
11:20A
Boxed and counted — 6 cartons
12:05P
ShipStation label · UPS Ground
READY
Invoice syncs to QuickBooks on ship
AUTO
Overflow goes out as a PO
PO-341 · Coast Contract Print
BLIND SHIP
They open a link, see the work order and imprint instructions, and ship straight to your customer with your name on the box.
What the customer sees
Order SO-1042
North High School Athletics · 288 tees
Quote approved
Art signed off — released every job waiting on it
Printed
Shipping today · UPS 1Z999…
Recent activity
Marcus completed SO-1042 on Auto Press 1 · 2m
Marcus logged 4 pcs spoilage · 14m
PO-338 received from S&S Illinois · 3h
SO-1042 approved out of quote · Jul 14
Every change is stamped with who did it and when — that log is what ends the "I thought you told them" argument.
The rest of the shop

The parts nobody demos, that run your week anyway.

Art approval

Proofs go out, decisions come back, and approved art is attached to the job — not buried in a Drive folder or an email thread.

Outsourced POs

Send a contract printer a link, not a PDF. They see the work order and imprint spec; blind-ship to your customer with your name on the box.

Your pricing matrix

Set $/piece and setup per method and quantity tier once. Every quote prices itself against your rates — screen, DTF, DTG, embroidery.

Company stores

Spin up a white-labeled storefront per client with Stripe or PayPal checkout. Orders land in the same queue as everything else.

Spoilage & activity log

Misprints get logged at the press, so your piece counts and your reorders are honest by Friday instead of a guess.

Roles that fit a shop

Manager, sales and operator each get the view they need. The tablet at the press doesn't show your margins.

Integrations

Connected to the systems you already pay for.

Live means live — you can use it this week. Anything still in progress says so.

Working today
S&S Activewear
Live stock, pricing, POs, warehouse pick
QuickBooks
Invoices sync when the job ships
ShipStation
Multi-carrier labels and tracking
Stripe & PayPal
Checkout on company stores
In progress
SanMar Carolina Made Shopify Google Drive
Where Ink Works is today

Built in a working shop. Now running in a couple more.

We're not going to pretend there are five hundred shops on this. Ink Works was built on a real floor to solve a real mess, it's in pilot with shops printing production work on it right now, and we're onboarding a small number more by hand.

That's the trade: you get a system shaped around how your shop actually runs, and direct access to the person building it.

Pricing
We quote your shop, not a tier chart.

Presses, seats and volume differ too much between a two-press shop and a ten-station decorator to put a number on a page. Tell us what you run and we'll give you a straight price on the call.

SEATSWhole team included
PRESSESUnlimited stations
SETUPGuided, your data loaded
DEMOBy request, no card

Run your next real order through it.

Bring one live job — we'll quote it, book it on a press, run it across the floor terminal and hand it off, so you see exactly what your Monday looks like on Ink Works.

Open the live demo → Book a demo call
We reply the same day · No card, no contract to look around
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