With the fierce competition and increasing cost of labor, printers face the problem that how to increase their production and efficiency. Information technology is one of the most used ways to achieve that object. Different applications, such as spreadsheet and Enterprise Resource Planning system are used for in different workshops. These applications really help printer improve their production in some extend. After investigating the usage of IT technology in different workshops, we found that

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... most of printers in China have various difficulties when using existing applications. We presented a cloud-based management system as a service to help printers resolve some of the problems found. With cloud-based management system, printers don't need to maintain the running hardware and software system. The system can be accessed from anywhere at any time by authorized people after successfully authenticated. Paper documents are not more needed for communication among departments.