LithoTechnics' Metrix Receives GATF InterTech
Award for Technical Innovation
Sydney, Australia, July
26, 2005 - LithoTechnics Pty Limited (www.lithotechnics.com)
today proudly announced that Metrix®, the first truly
automatic layout calculator for commercial printers, has been
honored with a 2005 InterTech™ Technology Award from
the Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical
Foundation (PIA/GATF). Inaugurated in 1978, this award recognizes
excellence in the development of new technology expected to
have a major impact on the graphic communications industry
over the next five years. Of the 52 entries submitted this
year, Metrix was one of 17 to receive this prestigious award.
Metrix employs a print industry specific, patent
pending algorithm, to optimize press sheet layouts for ganging
multiple products, eliminating the complexities of gang printing
and minimizing waste. Metrix enables even the least skilled
planner to confidently create layouts of up to one hundred
products, of different sizes and quantities, and mixtures
of flat and folded work, considering unique bleed and grain
direction requirements. Metrix then passes this information
downstream to prepress and finishing departments, generating
JDF, CIP3, and Preps® template files.
"We are very honored to receive this prestigious award,"
says Rohan Holt, LithoTechnics founder. "Our customers
tell us they love Metrix, and I'm glad the judges also appreciate
it's value."
According to Andrew Cester, Director of Whirlwind
Printing, "Metrix has become an indispensable tool for
our workflow. By automatically calculating all our ganged
layouts, and enabling us to easily edit these layouts where
necessary, while simultaneously checking that our edits don't
cause any errors, Metrix has reduced the total work time in
our prepress department by 20-25%."
About PIA/GATF
GATF was established in 1924 to serve the graphic communications
community as the leading resource for technical information
and services through research and education. In 1999, GATF
consolidated with the Printing Industries of America, Inc.
(PIA). Founded in 1887, PIA is the world's largest graphic
arts trade association representing an industry with more
than 1.2 million employees. Together GATF and PIA promote
the interests of more than 12,000 member companies.
About LithoTechnics
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. 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 Organization.
