LithoTechnics' Metrix Receives GATF InterTech Award for Technical Innovation.

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Metrix™ is an automatic layout calculator for commercial printers. It is used by estimators, customer service representatives, production planners, and prepress operators to instantly calculate optimum layouts, even for complex ganging.

With custom sized work however, no history exists to fall back on, and even the most experienced planner cannot be sure they have found the most efficient layout every time. Every job can be unique, for example even if you've printed the same product size before, the job may have different bleeds. Gang just one extra product on the sheet and the added complexities of different product sizes and quantities is enough to make even the most skilled production planner's head spin. Furthermore, any attempt to consider individual product bleeds, to minimize wastage by butting together non-bleeding sides and/or gripping into non-image product areas, can result in spending a whole day on a trial-and-error exercise in frustration. Is it any wonder that the average commercial printer brushes off the opportunities offered by ganging because of the overwhelming complexities?

This is where Metrix comes in. Metrix is specifically designed to eliminate these complexities, enabling even the least skilled layout planner to confidently and consistently create even complex layouts. From one product to one hundred, different sizes, different quantities, mixtures of flat and folded work, each with different bleeds and grain direction requirements - Metrix calculates the layout at the click of a button.

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Main Features

• automatically calculates even complex layouts for different sized flat, folded and bound products
  
• reduces the number of press makereadies and plate consumption by instantly calculating complex ganging layouts
  
• the patent pending, industry specific algorithms consider all important factors such as product bleeds, grain direction, and required quantities, as well as press imageable area and postpress requirements
  
• the Production Edition exports layout data in CIP3, JDF, and Preps® template formats, for integration with prepress workflow and postpress equipment
  
• imports JDF product descriptions from supporting estimating and management information systems
  
• produces comprehensive production reports with project data
  
• available as a standalone application or for multiple users
  
• simple and intuitive to operate, with twenty levels of undo and redo