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News Release from: Positive Focus | Subject: Metrix 2.1 imposition software
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2007
Imposition Software Compensates Paper
Thickness
The latest update to Metrix includes interactive shingling for conventionally bound work.
The latest update to Metrix includes interactive shingling for conventionally bound work Shingling applies creep to the pages to compensate for paper thickness when folded and in traditional imposition software was set at a fixed value for the whole publication, said Positive Focus
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 16 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The interface makes it simple to readjust an imposition scheme by moving the order of signatures to cater for a colour section on a different stock, for example, so if the planned stock is not available, a near equivalent of a different calliper or grammage can be used and Metrix will update the creep accordingly, added the company.
That works with perfect bound and saddle-stitched schemes, said Positive Focus.
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Rohan Holt, developer of Metrix, and chief executive officer of Lithotechnics, Metrix's manufacturer, said: "Metrix enables users to set and forget the shingling, knowing that Metrix will take everything in to account.
That includes the stock thickness, including different combinations of stocks and different binding sequences, for instance.
The shingling is dynamically and automatically updated whilst users make any changes, including adding or removing whole signatures." Metrix works without pre-drawn templates and is fully JDF compatible.
It automates many of the processes that previously slowed down imposition and layout.
Whilst many users rely on the optimisation features that allows Metrix to automate ganging of multiple jobs on a single sheet, the ability to handle bound publications, introduced in v2.0, has made it suitable for common imposition tasks in a commercial print environment on any sheetfed press,he claimed.
The Metrix 2.1 family includes Minimetrix, for the smaller press shop, in B3 and B2 versions, with imposed PDF output.
Metrix Commercial is a single user version, which is claimed to handle formats up to 3.6m in the longest dimension, with up to 16 jobs in a project and output to PDF, JDF or Preps templates, with export of CIP3 and JDF cutting and folding data.
Metrix Commercial is also available with multiple concurrent user site licenses.
Metrix runs on Windows and Citrix platforms and there are penalty-free upgrades from one produce to another in the range.
Positive Focus, the UK and Ireland distributor for Metrix is offering web-based demonstrations of the latest features in Metrix 2.1 by appointment.
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