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The capital-intensive nature of Electronic Pre-Press Systems (E.P.P.S.) demands accurate control of system utilization. Production studies of Scitex users have shown that most front-end cost accounting systems do not provide proper production data feedback for production analysis. Comprehensive Management Information Systems (MIS) built into Electronic Pre-Press Systems are parochial by nature and do not integrate will into plant wide MIS systems. front-end cost accounting systems do not provide proper production data feedback for production analysis. Comprehensive Management Information Systems (MIS) built into Electronic Pre-Press Systems are parochial by nature and do not integrate will into plant wide MIS systems. This paper is written to serve as a guideline to Scitex and other E.P.P.S. users for programming a personal computer or MIS system to gather and produce comprehensive production data for all cost centers in an E.P.P.S. department. Since data can be processed in common PC software packages such as Lotus or DBase III, the program can be easily modified by the user to reflect differences in definable cost centers and individual requirements. Scitex has recently released an automatic event logger whose accumulated data can be transferred via floppy disc in IBM PC compatible format. This data can be combined with other non-Scitex logged events to enable comprehensive production analysis. A model production analysis program has been developed, using DBase III. Computer-based time recording principles along with event logger and PC production analysis program are reviewed.