Is it just me, or is it really super-annoying to have that (mostly useless) visual reminder pop up on the display when it’s time to duplicate a print?
Seems to me this is a small enough screen - these ‘alerts’ should be either removable (ie., in settings give me the option of removing the ‘starter’ level alerts), or they should be on a 2 second timer, so they don’t waste space. really annoying to have them plastered on the screen while i’m trying to scroll thru previous production parts, to find the one I want to reprint.
While we’re at it, any chance that printed production jobs could be kept as a single instance on the screen, with say, a qty of printings visible in the subheader, instead of multiple instances? That production part gets printed 10x/week, but on occasion, there’s another part that needs printing every 3 weeks. It’d be REALLY NICE to not have to scroll down thru a dozen or two odd production runs, before I find the other production run that I want to duplicate…
OR, it would be great to have a job hierarchy option in the printer…
2 folders:
custom runs
production runs
then let Preform send it to the correct folder, so you can differentiate repeat runs from one-offs…
Anybody with me?
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Thanks @Davidwedge for all the thoughtful feedback. Noted! And sent along to our R+D team.
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Hey @Davidwedge, to circle back on this - our product managers confirmed these alerts can be swiped away after they appear and they also disappear after 5 seconds. Can you swipe them away and do yours disappear? or is the fact that they are showing up at all a frustration for you?
If they aren’t able to be swiped away or disappear then there is an actual UX issue that we’d like to know about.
Thanks!
thx..
yes, some go away after 5secs.. not all.. and some of them CAN’T be removed.
Either way, it’s still a ‘double-wide in a sub-division’ type of annoyance - i would prefer to spend less than 5 seconds looking at the screen in an entire day, rather than having to wait 5 secs ever time I run another production, for something that is a)unnecessary/useless info for someone who’se had 15 minutes of using the printer, b) should be gotten rid of or have a way to disable, and c)a hideous visual blob.
In my Apple experience, a design faux pas of that level would literally end the career of whomever was responsible for it. One of those little things that told Steve you were OK with half-a%%ing a design…and that would immediately end your career… 
I understand FL’s desire to get feedback on print quality/success, but the same could be said of the end-of-run binary report on any print. it’s rather annoying as well, but it only happens once per print, and can easily be removed.
Long-term, it seems to me that a production-type interface would make sense… get rid of the one-off-GUI aspects… create production-focused interface, requiring little/no additional futzing around, without endless lines of files being duplicated, showing a count of cycles for any file, etc…
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Got it, totally makes sense from a production standpoint. We really appreciate the feedback!
Also, that’s concerning that some can’t be removed. I’m sorry about that. It’s on the radar of our R+D team.
