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Metrix 3.7 Now Available!

Metrix® 3.7 is now available,enabling more automation, greater production cost reduction, and ease of use. New features include:

  • Multi-user clients can now see who else is logged-in
  • New project properties - “Type” and “Needs Attention”
  • JDF and MXML import have been expanded and improved
  • Optionally place collation marks over or under content
  • Split exports for PDF and Fujifilm XMF workflows
  • Greatly improved support for Fujifilm XMF workflows
  • Import and export stock data, including costs, via comma separated (csv) files
  • New component related text mark variables
  • New barcode marks and special Muller Martini barcodes - Max Edition only

What's New in Metrix 3.7.pdf [233 KB]

LithoTechnics Releases Metrix® 3.7

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Please contact your Metrix reseller or LithoTechnics for details about how to upgrade to 3.7.

 


What is Metrix?

Metrix® is the award winning automatic layout calculator for commercial and gang run printers. It is used by estimators, customer service representatives, production planners, and prepress operators to instantly calculate optimum layouts. Metrix integrates with both front-end MIS systems and back-end production systems such as prepress workflows and finishing equipment.

Click here to see the Flash introduction to Metrix.

How will Metrix help your business?

Learn how Metrix has helped these printers succeed:


Magazine Articles

"The Metrix Wave" - the August 2006 edition of PrintAction, Canada's graphic communications magazine, features LithoTechnics' Metrix as the front cover article. Writes Jon Robinson, PrintAction Editor, "An Australian tech startup is redefining the rules of workflow with an $8,000 job-planning application, a cost most users have recouped in the first week...". Click here to read the full article as a PDF file [2.79 Mb].

Williamson Printing Corporation, Dallas, Texas, is an award-winning printer using Metrix and JDF automation to take their workflow to the next level. Find out how in the American Printer Magazine September 2006 article, "Saying YES to JDF!"

"Metrix is set to revolutionise thinking on imposition, ganging and layouts with its new version 2.0." Click here to read the 2-page article in the UK's Print & Paper Monthly, October 2006.

Why buy Metrix? According to the June 24, 2004 article in Printing World magazine Metrix "is an automated layout program that does its job quickly and does it accurately."

Check out the interview with LithoTechnics founder Rohan Holt, "Metrix Gangs Up for Profit", in the April 2004 edition of ProPrint magazine.

 

 

Metrix® Server 1.0 Wins Print09 Must See ’ems Award

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Must see em

Metrix Server 1.0 has been awarded the prestigious Must See ’ems Award, one of only four products so recognized in the Software category, at the Print09 show, recently held in Chicago.


LithoTechnics and SCREEN Sign Worldwide Metrix® Distribution Agreement

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Metrix® Users Win 2008 CIPPI Awards for Best Process Automation

Two Metrix users have won the prestigious CIP4 International Print Production Innovation Award (CIPPI) for 2008. Click here for the full press release


LithoTechnics Releases Metrix® 3 for PowerPC Platform

Mark Lancaster, Manufacturing Manager of Transcontinental Dartmouth, who initially requested the PowerPC version, shared his thoughts: "We had wanted to use some of the older Macs in the prepress department to run Metrix, so we contacted LithoTechnics ... within two weeks we had a PowerPC version in house. We were very impressed with the responsiveness shown by LithoTechnics, and are very happy with the new release." Click here for more


Fujifilm Graphic Systems USA Signs Metrix® Distribution Agreement

"Fujifilm remains committed to providing customers with the knowledge, expertise, support, and best-in-class products," said Bryan Hughes, Product Marketing Manager, Workflow Products, Fujifilm Graphic Systems USA. "Metrix is clearly one of those best-in-class products that will benefit our customers greatly, particularly as they implement the next wave of workflow automation." Click here for more


Metrix Receives GATF InterTech Award for Technical Innovation

Metrix has been honored with the prestigious 2005 Intertech™ Technology Award from the Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF)... read more


  "When I was a CSR, I begged for this!"  
  2005 PIA/GATF InterTech™ Technology Award Judge  

  "Metrix works like magic. It optimizes press sheet layouts for ganging multiple products, eliminates the complexities of gang printing and minimizes stock waste, placing as much product on a press sheet as possible, while considering printer/press capabilities and product specs such as grain direction."  
  Frank Romano, Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of Technology School of Print Media  

 

"In my near twenty years in printing, this might be the coolest innovation I’ve seen..."

"What we used to do in a couple of hours now takes about 2 minutes with Metrix... I can't imagine doing without Metrix - it would not be possible."

"Metrix has become an indispensable tool for our workflow..."

"Metrix is amazing..."

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