Web Services

Once we had mastered the art of estimating on the desktop of our customers with PDQ, it only seemed a small step to migrate our interests into the so-called ‘cloud’.

Of course, stuff that works in the cloud is not really floating around in the ether somewhere, it is situate on a real server, located among many thousands of racks in a vast warehouse somewhere (probably) but, as a user experience, the software might as well be floating in the air as it is always on and always accessible.

PDQ Web Services is fundamentally the algorithm that powers desktop PDQ but accessible to everyone via an infrastructure that we have built (the web services) that can be accessed with your own application to obtain print prices.

Your Solution

If you own a high-end development resource, you can build an entire front end to our web services and make it look and function however you wish and, what is more, it will all be entirely yours to own and operate. It may be that you need to obtain a price from our ‘virtual printer’ – a construct of most of the equipment that is available in the market and an indicator of what you can expect to pay for almost any job specification.

Perhaps you are a print manager who wishes to obtain instant, accurate prices from your suppliers?

Either way, if you have the development resources at your disposal, you can build any interface you desire and, as long as your process is driven by print prices, you will find PDQ Web Services an invaluable component in your solution.

Our Solution

Of course, you don’t have to build your own front end to PDQ Web Services to gain access to it – we can do it for you. We have a great deal of experience in building online access interfaces for our clients and, as the end result is connecting to our own web services, we do have a slight advantage!

Features:

PDQ web services is a fully loaded print pricing engine. It takes into account most everything that a human estimator might need to consider when calculating a price. This ‘wisdom’ includes:

1. Knowing the most cost effective production route
2. Knowing the most efficient way to plan a job on a sheet
3. Knowing when it is better to ‘waste’ some of a sheet on smaller runs
4. Knowing if, and when, it is better to finish a job 2 up (or even 3 up)
5. Knowing when it is better to half sheet finish a job
6. Knowing the difference between digital, sheet and reel (web) processes – and being able to quote for them all
7. Knowing the difference between sheet and reel paper and which processes can use them
8. Knowing standard paper reel widths and using lead time to calculate if a making size is possible – and then calculating it
9. Knowing how to apply discounts on paper, based upon weight breaks or sheet quantity
10. And much, much more

How can I book a demonstration?

Contact sales@haybrooke.com or telephone 0116 2711000