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ControlTower

by PrePressOS  ·  Built for print shops

Schedule your pressroom.
See the whole week at a glance.

ControlTower is a drag-and-drop job scheduler for your pressroom. Assign jobs to presses, set due dates, visualize capacity, and spot bottlenecks before they become delays.

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Free  ·  2 presses  ·  Solo $9/mo  ·  Team $19/mo  ·  Windows

ControlTower — Week of Jun 16
ControlTower
Schedule
Capacity
Backlog
Settings
Press Schedule
Jun 16 – Jun 20
Press
Mon 6/16
Tue 6/17
Wed 6/18
Thu 6/19
Fri 6/20
Mark II
Flexo
Cascade IPA
25k · CMYK
Cascade IPA
cont'd
Hoffman Pilsner
12.5k · CMYK+1
Summit Farms
8k · 2C
HP Indigo
6900
Verde Salsa
18.5k · 3C
Ridgeline Coffee
5k · 4C
Blue Oak Winery
10k · CMYK
Blue Oak Winery
cont'd
Finishing
/ Slit
Cascade IPA
laminate + die
Verde Salsa
slit + rewind
Hoffman Pilsner
die cut
What ControlTower does
No more dry-erase boards.

Your current press schedule lives on a whiteboard, in someone's head, or in a spreadsheet nobody keeps current. ControlTower makes the whole week visible — and keeps it accurate automatically.

Drag-and-Drop Scheduling
Assign jobs to presses by dragging them onto the schedule. Reschedule with a single drag. Move a job from Monday to Thursday and every downstream dependency shifts with it.
Capacity Visualization
See at a glance when each press is full, underbooked, or overcommitted. Capacity is calculated from run time estimates — so you're scheduling real time, not just job count.
Due Date Conflict Alerts
ControlTower flags any job where the scheduled finish date won't meet the due date — before you commit. See conflicts in red. Resolve them before a customer calls asking where their order is.
Jobs Flow in from PrePressOS
Every approved work order in PPOS appears automatically in the ControlTower backlog — with quantity, run time estimate, substrate, and due date already filled in. No double entry.
Multi-Press, Multi-Shift
Schedule across unlimited presses and finishing equipment. Set shift hours per machine. A job that can only run on the Mark II during night shift is blocked off on day shift automatically.
Pushes to TerminalView
Schedule a job in ControlTower and it appears on the TerminalView floor display immediately. The press room always sees what's coming next — pulled straight from the schedule.
Pricing
Start free. Scale when you need to.

ControlTower is free for shops with up to 2 presses. Upgrade to Solo or Team when you outgrow the free tier.

Save 22% annually
Free
$0
forever · no credit card
  • Up to 2 presses
  • Weekly schedule view
  • Manual job entry
  • Job backlog
  • PPOS work order sync
  • Unlimited presses
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Solo
$9
$84
/month · Cancel anytime
/year · $7/mo equivalent
  • Unlimited presses
  • PPOS work order sync
  • Everything in Free
  • 1 seat
  • Multi-seat access
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Team
$19
$180
/month · Cancel anytime
/year · $15/mo equivalent
  • Everything in Solo
  • 3 seats included
  • Priority support
  • Or included with PPOS Professional and Studio plans
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PPOS subscribers: this app is included in your PrePressOS subscription — no separate purchase needed. Your plan tier sets your access level: Starter → Solo, Professional or Studio → Team. View PPOS plans

Part of the PrePressOS Suite
Schedule the jobs PrePressOS already knows about.

Every work order built in PrePressOS already has the run time estimate, press assignment, substrate, and due date. ControlTower reads all of it — so scheduling a new job is one drag, not a form.

  • Approved WOs flow into the backlog pre-filled — drag to schedule, done
  • Capacity conflicts flag automatically — never double-book a press again
  • Scheduled jobs feed TerminalView — the floor knows what's next without a separate board
See PrePressOS Explore the Suite
Work Order Builder
Approved WOs flow into ControlTower's backlog automatically — quantity, run time, press, and due date included.
TerminalView
Scheduled jobs appear on floor displays in press order — the crew always knows what's running next.
ProofGate
Proof approval triggers automatic WO status update — jobs don't hit the schedule until the proof is signed off.
DutyClock
Actual shift hours from DutyClock inform ControlTower's capacity model — schedule reflects who's actually in the building.
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