LithoTechnics announces another pioneering
breakthrough - Metrix® 2.0, supporting multi-signature
bound jobs
Sydney, Australia, February 20, 2006
- At IPEX 2006 LithoTechnics (www.lithotechnics.com) will
be demonstrating the forthcoming version of their award-winning
product, Metrix. Version 2.0 incorporates all the ease of
use and sophisticated ganging technology of Metrix, but adds
for the first time, the ability to dynamically and automatically
calculate multi-signature bound jobs, directly from JDF or
operator input.
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 states: "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."
Holt continues, "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.
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. Metrix, LithoTechnics'
flagship product, received the prestigious 2005 PIA/GATF InterTech™
Technology Award, recognized 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 Organization.
