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# 🖨️ PrintAuftrag - Automated Personalization & Production System
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A system that automates repetitive business processes, digitizes workflows, reduces mistakes and costs, and provides an easy-to-use, universally accessible web UI.
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## 💡 What It Does
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- **Automates** repetitive and time-consuming business processes
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- **Digitizes** order-to-production workflows
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- **Reduces mistakes and costs** by eliminating manual steps and standardizing outputs
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- **Accessible everywhere** via a simple and intuitive web interface
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## 👥 Who Uses It
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This system is in production at **Wolga-Kreativ**, a company specializing in personalized products such as:
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- Lunch boxes
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- T-shirts
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- Candles
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- Other custom items (primarily for children)
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These are sold across multiple platforms: **Amazon**, **Etsy**, and **Shopify**.
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> 🧑💻 I’m the developer and operator of this system, affiliated with Wolga-Kreativ as the owner’s son.
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## 🔁 High-Level Pipeline
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1. 📦 Orders are captured from sales channels and aggregated via **Billbee**
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2. 🔄 The system pulls order data from Billbee using its API
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3. 🖼️ Personalized product images are generated based on order data
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4. 🖨️ Production-ready print files are created for each specific machine
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5. 📤 Files are sent to production for manufacturing and packaging
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6. 📬 At day's end, production sends a report → system updates statuses → customers are notified via all sales channels
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## ✅ Key Benefits
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- 🚀 Faster processing and turnaround
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_Saves up to two full-time employees during peak seasons_
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- ❌ Fewer manual errors and misprints
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- 🎯 Consistent, machine-ready print files
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- 📍 Centralized tracking and cross-channel customer notifications
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## 🧰 Tech Stack
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- **Backend:** Spring Boot, PostgreSQL
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- **Frontend:** Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
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- **Image Generation:** Python
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- **Containerization:** Docker
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- **Hosting:** Self-hosted on internal server
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## 🧩 System Components
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### 🖼️ Image Generator
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#### Problem
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Designs were originally made manually in tools like **CorelDraw** or **Photoshop**—unsuitable for automated large-scale personalization.
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Each personalized product had to be manually edited and exported—a slow, error-prone process, especially with over **150+ orders/day** during peak season.
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#### Solution
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- Designs are transformed into **SVG templates** with embedded bitmaps
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- Stored in the database
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- A standalone **Python** program takes prefiltered order data from Billbee and generates the images automatically
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**Technology:** Python
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### 🖨️ Print File Generator
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#### Problem
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Different machines, product types, and practices require specific print file formats.
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Manual import and layout of each image is time-consuming and inconsistent.
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#### Solution
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- Web UI allows users to configure **print templates**
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- Templates are saved to the database
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- Backend (Spring Boot) generates the correct print files automatically when processing orders
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**Technologies:** Java, Spring Boot, HTML5, TypeScript, Tailwind, Next.js
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### 🔄 Sales Channel Update
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#### Problem
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After production, each order had to be manually marked as shipped and customers notified—labor-intensive and slow.
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#### Solution
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- End-of-day production sheet is automatically read
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- Order statuses are updated via API
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- Notifications are sent to customers through **Billbee**
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**Technologies:** TypeScript, Next.js
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## 🔮 Future Work
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- 🔗 Integrate the Python image generator into the core server workflow
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- ⚙️ Improve system automation with deeper **Billbee API** usage
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- 📈 Extend with more processes
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## 🖼️ Screenshots
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### 🎨 Web View – Print Templates
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_Template configuration interface – View 1_
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_Template configuration interface – View 2_
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### 🔁 Abstract Visualization – System Flow
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_High-level overview of the automated order-to-production pipeline_
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