Metrix 2.0 extends job planning automation to the broad commercial market, and heralds a comprehensive change in the way the printing industry plans and imposes work. Metrix handles all work dynamically and automatically, at the click of a button, transforming the laborious layout planning process into a quick and easy step in the print production workflow.
Rohan Holt, LithoTechnics founder, says “Metrix is unlike any job planning system on the market. We designed Metrix with clear goals – ease of use was of paramount importance. Secondly, we wanted to facilitate just-in-time production decisions, so we designed editing to be dynamic and intelligent.
“We tackled the most difficult type of work – ganging – first, because we knew it would be a rock-solid foundation for the future. Now, with book work added, Metrix users will benefit from the best of both worlds.”
Customers who have seen the alpha version of Metrix 2.0 have described it as ground-breaking in the way it handles all types of planning and imposition. Moreover, its ability to import JDF files which describe complete publications from enabled MIS systems makes Metrix 2.0 an indispensable tool in the battle for efficiency and profitability.
Metrix completes the productivity loop by exporting the layout in JDF format, including all PDF content, press sheet geometry and marks, to JDF-enabled workflows and JDF-enabled RIPs, and to JDF and CIP3 capable finishing equipment.
Metrix 2.0 will be demonstrated at IPEX 2006 in the JDF Pavilion, Hall 20-C60, on the stand of LithoTechnics’ UK distributor, Positive Focus, Hall 20-D45, and at various other partner locations throughout the show.
LithoTechnics is a privately held company founded in 2003 by Rohan Holt. Holt is the original inventor of SuperImpose™, the product that was adapted and renamed UpFront® when it was acquired by ScenicSoft in 1999.
Metrix, LithoTechnics’ flagship product, received the prestigious 2005 PIA/GATF InterTech™ Technology Award, recognised industry-wide as a symbol of technological innovation and excellence. Based south of Sydney, Australia, LithoTechnics is a software company focused on providing key tools and technologies to enable print workflow automation. LithoTechnics is a full member of the CIP4 Organisation.
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