How do you file your graphics?

[Maxie]

I am getting a CTS next week so I need to change my filing system.
Up to now we have cardboard files with the film in them, they run numerically.
Most jobs have two numbers, first the order number and when we make the file the file number.
Trying to work out a new system to use with the CTS
We could file by customer and within customer each job.
Problem is new customers get a number when the work is billed, after they are printed.
Each job has a order number but if we use this then re orders will have to original number and not the new order number, we could possibly change this with every repeat order.
I'd like to hear how you are filing.

[Scobey Peterman]

I work for two sporting goods salesman.  I put there last in a 15 x 12 x 1 folder.  Each folder is numbered.  This number goes on the
invoice.  The invoice has a screen shot of the art.  It helps when we get a repeat job from several years ago.

The art folders go in a box and I try to keep them in number order.

Good luck

[kirkwad]

We make folders on our server. We apply a Design # for each design, not order #.

We'll do a Screen Print 2019 folder. Within that we have a folder for each customer. Within that, a folder w/ the Design number + Design name that is for that specific customer. When we have orders, we apply the design number(s) to the order.

We save the design files to a Screen Room folder on the server. The screen room guy will pull up a work order, see which design number(s) go with that work order, then RIP & Burn & mark off that it has been screened.