If your MIS feels like something you constantly have to work around instead of rely on, it’s probably holding you back.
Not because you’re doing anything wrong.
Not because your team isn’t capable.
But because the system itself was never built for how your business actually runs today.
The Quiet Friction Inside Most Print Businesses
It usually shows up in small ways at first:
Manual processes that should have been automated years ago.
Disconnected systems that don’t speak the same language.
Limited visibility into jobs, costs, or performance.
You end up double-checking data. Re-entering information. Building spreadsheets outside the system just to see what’s really going on.
And before you know it, your MIS has become a bottleneck instead of a backbone.
When Your MIS Sucks, Your Workflow Doesn’t Have To
An MIS should enable automation - not restrict it.
It should connect your estimating, job management, production, finishing, shipping, and reporting in a way that feels seamless. It should give you clarity, not confusion.
But too often, print businesses are stuck with systems that are:
Over-engineered
Under-integrated
Painfully slow to adapt
Impossible to evolve without major cost
That’s where the frustration sets in.
And that’s why we say it plainly: if your MIS sucks, ditch it.
Or at the very least, stop letting it dictate what your workflow can become.
There Is Another Way
At Innovaic, we work with print businesses to rethink how systems are structured and connected.
Sometimes that means replacing the core.
Sometimes it means decoupling critical workflows.
Sometimes it means building around the problem instead of inside it.
The goal isn’t chaos. It’s clarity.
Clear data.
Connected systems.
Workflows that reflect how print actually moves.
Let’s Talk About It
If this sounds uncomfortably familiar, you’re not alone.
📍 Come talk it through with us at Dscoop Edge Rockies - Booth: 515.
Or start the conversation now:
👉 https://www.innovaic.com/ditch-your-mis
Because your workflow doesn’t have to suffer just because your MIS does.
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