LithoTechnics Expands Sales & Support Team
to Handle Growing Demand
Sydney, Australia, March 28, 2008 - LithoTechnics,
Inc., developer of Metrix®, award-winning automatic, intelligent
job planning and imposition system, announced today the expansion
of its International and North American sales and support
team to handle the growing demand for Metrix.
Pete Carnell joined LithoTechnics Pty Limited
in November. Pete's role as International Sales and Support
Manager will focus on assisting customers and dealer channels
in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and Asia. Pete was most
recently with Serendipity Software as International Support
Manager, though his skill in managing customer support is
matched by his proficiency in software testing and QA. Pete's
17 years of industry experience has afforded him an extensive
knowledge of prepress workflow, augmented by his technical
grasp of systems and processes. This has provided Pete with
a holistic overview and perspective valuable in understanding
and implementing Metrix as a critical link in the entire chain
of print production and its infrastructure.
In January, Joel Honea joined the Sales and
Customer Support team at LithoTechnics, Inc., the US subsidiary.
Joel brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge
gained from both the production and software vendor sides
of the printing industry. His 18 years in the industry have
provided him with a unique customer-focused approach, having
had the opportunity to learn first-hand "in the trenches"
at Banta Corporation and most recently at Motheral Printing
Company. Joel's customer support expertise was largely gained
during his five years with ScenicSoft's fabled Technical Support
& Training Group, where he was a training and support
specialist for Preps® and UpFront®. While at ScenicSoft/Creo,
Joel was responsible for the original Installation and Deployment
Guide for what is now Kodak UpFront.
"We are very pleased to have Pete and Joel
on board," said Rohan Holt, founder of LithoTechnics.
"Their experience and broad technical expertise are important
assets as we go through the growth we are now experiencing."
The Metrix 3.0 family includes Metrix Commercial,
Metrix Max, Metrix X-8 and Metrix X-80, targeted at different
segments of the commercial print market. All editions are
available on Mac OS X and Windows, and all automatically plan
and impose flat, folded, and bound work as well as ganged
work. All editions can import JDF and export imposed PDF.
Select editions include Auto Plan, and export various forms
of JDF for prepress and finishing. The entire Metrix family
is available in English, German, Spanish, and French.
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. With offices in Phoenix,
Arizona, and 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.
