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Welcome to David Ashkenaz
Independent PrintSmith Consultant Newsletter
Dear Friends and PrintSmith Users,
Happy New Year and best wishes for a great 2012!
I hope you enjoy an exciting and profitable year. I want to remind you that it is my desire to help you achieve greater profitability by assisting you with one of the most challenging components to your business, PrintSmith. I want to encourage you to consider enlisting my services and my many years of experience so that you can take control of your business by getting better REPORTS to help you manage your operations through providing more accurate and timely information. Provide more accurate PRICING to increase your profitability and gain you more business, and especially to MANAGE and TRACK the jobs that go through your shop, to better meet your customer's expectations.
So, as the new year starts, now is the best time to implement all of PrintSmith's features such as bar code scanning, and Report Writer. Start off 2012 with the tools that you already have, and the wisdom to use them!
I assume all of you have backed up your Year-End data files after your final close out of 2011. Now would be an excellent time to see if you are backing up correctly and that you can do a proper RESTORE of your data files! See my "HOW-TO" on, "Restoring PrintSmith from a Backup", below.
The current version of PrintSmith is 8.1.15, upgrade today!
Best Regards,
David Ashkenaz
Independent PrintSmith Consultant
954-977-7811
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HOW TO
Restoring PrintSmith from a Backup
Since you backed up your PrintSmith last week, now is a great time to see if the backup procedures you have in place really work! I have known some very diligent users to backup daily, but when they needed their backup, it didn't work. It is critical that you TEST your backup periodically! You don't want to find out it doesn't work when you need it most. Believe me...that happens.
STEP-BY-STEP
- On the master, make sure PrintSmith is not running on any of your systems and go to your existing PrintSmith folder at your Server.
- The PrintSmith folder will be located in your Applications (MAC) or Program Files (PC) folder
- Rename your Prices, Data, and Reports folders to: GOOD Prices; GOOD Data; and GOOD Reports.
- Now Copy and Paste the Prices, Data, and Reports folders from your backup copy into your existing PrintSmith folder.
- Start up PrintSmith. You should have all the data from the last time you backed up. (i.e. Friday 12/30/11).
- Your Pending Documents should be from 12/30/11, as well as your closeouts, and your AR balance. If they are, proceed to the step 8.
- If they aren't, call for support to see why your backups aren't working correctly.
- Now that you have verified your backup copy is working fine, close PrintSmith.
- Delete the Prices, Data, and Reports folders [copies are still in your backup, since we copied/pasted from there, in Step 4].
- Rename GOOD Prices, GOOD Data, GOOD Reports to Prices, Data, and Reports.
- Restart PrintSmth, verify your data. You are now ready and confident that you will know how to restore a backup, and that your backups are working well.
If you have any questions, please call or email me. |
PUSH Support
2nd to None Service!
I understand PrintSmith's Support has raised prices for the new year. Now is the best time to consider your options.
Consider the many benefits of my consulting services as well as my PUSH support:
EXPERIENCE
- Over 25 years of experience using PrintSmith to all of it's capabilities.
- Over 15 years of experience owning/operating a successful printing business.
- I have a degree in Business Management and 25 years in Accounting.
PUSH
2nd to None Service!
- Dedicated number for fast and easy access to your SUPPORT needs!
- Available 24/7, 365 days/year!
- ROI in just a few months, adding more profit to your bottom line!
Thanks to all of my PUSH Users -- As year 2 of PUSH service starts, I am happy to report a 100% renewal rate! Thank you all! It is great to work with every one of my PUSH users and I am personally happy to provide my services to you. Thanks again!
Testimonial Story
This past New Year's Eve, I received a call from a PUSH user who was finishing up his year end in PrintSmith. HE got some error messages, so he called my PUSH hotline phone number. I walked him through the problems creating the errors and quickly got him back up and running. Remember! PUSH is available 24/7 and the service is 2nd to none! |
Bar Code Readers
Bar Code readers are still available, directly through me (call or email me please), and are also offered by me on eBay .
WHY USE BAR CODE READERS?
- Track the amount of time spent on a job at each point from beginning to end. (i.e. Graphics; Output; Proofing; Press set up; Production; Bindery; etc.
- Quickly find where a job is when the client calls for status.
- Get better reporting.
Order YOURS today!
ALL of the scanners are PRE- PROGRAMMED to work with PrintSmith and are compatible for both PC and Mac.
Wired Scanner....................................... $200.00 each
Wireless ..................................................$650.00 each
PRICES INCLUDE FREE SHIPPING!
Please use the credit card form to order!
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Thanks for your continued support. I look forward to help all PrintSmith Users!
David Ashkenaz
Independent PrintSmith Consultant
954-977-7811
davidash@mindspring.com
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