Benefits

Why Metrix^®?

1 You must cut your production overhead costs.

How many hours will your employees spend doing what Metrix does in a fraction of the time? Considering a purchase of Metrix is not about spending vs. not spending – it is a question of how much you are spending and what the spending is for.

“Metrix has saved us countless hours in planning and prepress – sometimes even an entire shift of work for the larger jobs.”
Bonnie Pflug, Job Engineering Manager, Imagine Print Solutions, Minneapolis, MN

"Metrix has helped us double the work capacity of the planning and estimating departments—without any increase in staff. As a result, a greater number of jobs are getting to the pressroom faster, so we've increased the company’s press utilization and overall throughput by 20 percent. Metrix has also helped us cut prepress imposition time per job by 50 percent. Metrix has been a key part of our company's continued growth."
Mike Lawing, Plant Manager, Indexx Printing Solutions, SC

Your planning and imposition process right now isn’t broken – any more than film stripping on light tables was broken. But it is inefficient, costly, and antiquated, in much the same way. How much money will you spend on overhead that you could put into your pocket, or spend to gain new business?

2 You need top talent without paying top dollar.

Metrix has decades of planning experience and intelligence built into its engine, and all your equipment, stocks, and standard production methods saved into its database. This means you can expand the job planning and imposition responsibilities to a larger group of employees – not just the seasoned veterans.

“Our CSRs now convert an estimate to a job, create the layout, and begin the proofing process. This hasn’t shaved hours off the production cycle – it’s shaved days off.”
Chris Reynolds, VP Manufacturing, Belk Printing Technologies, Pineville, NC

“With Metrix, our estimators are able to gain the competitive edge and then send the layouts directly into prepress.”
Vincent Sita, VP Manufacturing, Rex Three, Inc., Sunrise, FL

3 You need to eliminate planning and imposition errors.

How much money do you spend printing re-makes, or scrambling to fudge the finishing setup to accommodate planning/imposition mistakes?

“Since we implemented Metrix version 3, we’ve experienced no remakes due to mistakes in planning.”
Richard Bowers, Prepress Manager, Indexx Printing Solutions, Greenville, SC

“With Metrix, we reduced remakes due to incorrect imposition from 30% to zero. The work just flows.”
Peter Montgomery, Director of Prepress, Moquin Press, Belmont, CA

4 You need to find every single opportunity for profit.

Your planners do the best they can with pencil and paper and years of experience. And imposition software does a great job digitizing the hand-drawn diagrams. But imposition software has no intelligence – it cannot provide an analysis of your jobs and optimize your layouts to make the most profit – that’s not what it was designed to do.

Metrix, on the other hand, was purpose-built for generating the most profitable plans/impositions:

“On one job, Metrix came up with a layout we hadn’t thought of that brought the price down $7,000.”
Andrew Cook, President, Peel Graphics, Brampton, Ontario

5 You need to find new business opportunities.

Ganging used to be the preserve of low-end chop shops and specialty printers. No more. For certain types of work, ganging can cut costs and boost profitability exponentially. It’s no secret that web-to-print millionaires have scored big with ganging, but Metrix enables every printer to take advantage of its sophisticated algorithms when the need or opportunity arises.

“Metrix is amazing. It is saving us 2-3 hours of work for every gang layout we print, which is opening up new markets to us. We can pass these savings on to our customers to win even further business.”
Edward Kouwenhoven, Generation Printing Ltd., Vancouver, BC

“Thanks to Metrix we are now able to combine different books on a single layout, even books of different sizes. We save nearly 20% of our raw materials when we are able to use this functionality.”
Jordi Aleu, Director, Graficas Aleu, Barcelona, Spain

6 You can’t afford not to.

Have a look and see what you and your bottom line are missing. You will be pleasantly surprised.