The Pre-Launch Interview

Overview

The Pre-Launch Interview defines your shop's profile. Here is where Morning Flight collects the information it needs to configure itself to your company's capabilities. Every setting made during the interview can later be changed from within the program, but it's more convenient to do it during Pre-Launch. These are the questions you will be asked, and how you can later change your answers:

What is your country?

1.	Click the My World button (or click File > My World).

2.	Click the My Country button and select your country from the pick list. If your country is missing from the list, click the Add button to define it.

What is your exchange rate?

This applies exclusively to Morning Flight users located outside of the United States. It's the only Pre-Launch setting that cannot be reset in a few simple steps.

Let's assume your country uses Euros, and the exchange rate when you installed Morning Flight was 0.80 to 1.00 (0.80 Euros = 1.00 U.S. Dollar). To revert back to U.S. Dollar prices you'll need to multiply every price and hourly rate you find in My Shop, and every paper price in My Store, by 1.25.

Where did 1.25 come from? It's what you get when you divide one Dollar by the local currency value, in this case 1:00 divided by 0.80.

Do you have an . . .

Imagesetter
Camera

1.	Click the My Shop button (or click File > My Shop).

2.	Click the Prepress button.

3.	Click the Film tab, then check Imagesetter if you have one, uncheck it if you don't. Do the same for Camera.

Do you have a . . .

2-Color Press
4-Color Press
Digital Press
B&W Copier
Color Copier

1.	Click the My Shop button (or click File > My Shop).

2.	Check or uncheck presses and copiers, as appropriate.

The One-Color offset press can't be unchecked. Morning Flight assumes that virtually every offset shop either has such a press, or at least offers One-Color printing. "Digital Only" shops will happily ignore offset altogether.

When you uncheck the Four-Color offset press, you'll still be able to quote Four-Color. Unchecking the press merely takes it off-line and assigns all Four-Color runs to the Two-Color press, twice through.

Unchecking a digital press or a copier, on the other hand, will prevent you from quoting the type of work associated with that piece of equipment. For one thing, you can't produce color copies on a black copier. And while there is often a good reason to run a One-Color offset job on a Two-Color press (One-Color press too small, too much ink coverage), making black copies on a color copier is almost always cost-prohibitive.

Describe your offset presses

1.	Click the My Shop button (or click File > My Shop).

2.	Click the Presses button and select the press you want to work on from the pick list.

3.	Set the minimum and maximum sheet sizes.

4.	Check or uncheck the types of plates available for this press.

Who will administer Morning Flight?

1.	Click the My World button (or click File > My World).

2.	Click the My Preferences button.

3.	Click the My Name button and enter the name and initials of the Program Administrator.