"In my near twenty years in printing,
this might be the coolest innovation I’ve seen." Chris Reynolds
VP Manufacturing
Belk Printing Technologies
North Carolina
United States of America
"With Metrix, our layout planner has
doubled the amount of work he is able to do in a day. At the
same time, Metrix provides us with instant feedback as to
the viability of a production plan, showing us that a proposed
imposition can actually be done. The learning curve for Metrix
was also extremely short. Our planner learned the software
after only two hours of web-based training, making it one
of the easiest implementations of new technology I've ever
experienced."
Harsha Paruchuri
Executive Director
Pragati Offset
India
"Before we introduced Metrix 2.0, we
had established islands of JDF-enabled devices. Metrix is
the ultimate bridge, allowing us to link our complete JDF
workflow together, from MIS, estimating and scheduling, to
prepress, press and post-press." Joe Novak
Director of Technology
Williamson Printing Corporation
Dallas, Texas
United States of America
"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%. At the same time
it is reducing raw material consumption by allowing us to
try different "what-if" scenarios on-the-fly, for
instance trying to fit the same products on a more efficient
sheet size. Another significant benefit is the reduction in
errors to manual data entry. An unexpected side effect of
Metrix has been improved morale - creating gang layouts manually
was a very tedious and often frustrating exercise. Metrix
is the right tool for the job."
Andrew Cester
Director
Whirlwind
Australia
"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, British Columbia
Canada
"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
South Carolina
United States of America
"Metrix is a powerful tool that has
automated the creation of even our complex layouts. This saves
a lot of time and has removed the guess work from the process.
The Metrix layouts utilize the paper most efficiently and
minimize cutting. Metrix also exports the layout data in formats
we can use in Prepress and Finishing, saving us more time
downstream. Metrix will pay for itself many times over this
year." Bill Power
Executive Director IT & Communications
Vega Colour Group
Notting Hill, Victoria
Australia
"When I was a CSR, I begged for this!" 2005 PIA/GATF InterTech™ Technology Award Judge
"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." Frank Romano
Professor Emeritus
Rochester Institute of Technology School of Print Media
United States of America
"Metrix is an exceptional tool to increase
throughput in job planning and prepress as well as in the
pressroom."
George Ryan
Executive VP and COO of PIA/GATF
