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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
Click
here for the full press release
Please contact your Metrix
reseller or LithoTechnics for details about
how to upgrade to 3.7.
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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:
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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.
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Metrix® Server 1.0 Wins Print09 Must See ’ems Award
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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. |
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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
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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
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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
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 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
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"When I was a CSR, I begged
for this!" |
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2005 PIA/GATF InterTech™
Technology Award Judge |
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"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." |
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Frank Romano, Professor Emeritus,
Rochester Institute of Technology School of Print
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"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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