The difficulty in managing manufactory with custom and individual production forces development and evolution in expert system technology. The uniqueness of each order, resource constraint and existence of different technical ways to fulfill an order make this task interesting. This paper considers the use of expert systems techniques in the field of printing house manufacturing and gives as an example a prototype developed by author of this paper. The prototype addresses the problems of front end scheduling and the allocation of critical resources for maximum efficiency. The special value of the prototype is computer compilation of all technical and production documents based on order description from the manager.