Under the agreement, Prism will sell and support the entire
Metrix product line worldwide, on Mac OS X and Windows platforms, to complement
its sophisticated and popular MIS offerings to the graphic communications
industry.
Kathy Mitchell, Australasian general manager for Prism
comments, "We have been working with Rohan Holt for a good number of years now
and have always been impressed with the sophistication of his products and
passion for the industry. We are thrilled to be working formally together to
deliver to the market efficient and vital tools that ultimately will deliver
greater efficiencies to the shop floor.
Mitchell continued, "This agreement will allow Prism to deliver
an expanded integrated solution to our mutual clients that builds upon the
standard JDF integration. The printing industry is asking for these simple
sophisticated tools that deliver a new level of automation. It is clear that
the printing industry is changing and we here at Prism are dedicated to providing
solutions that will allow our clients to move with these changes. The agreement
between LithoTechnics and Prism will allow us to continue to be at the leading
edge of production automation."
Rohan Holt, president of LithoTechnics says: "I've been dealing
with Prism for over a decade, and watched them expand from their roots in New
Zealand, through Australia,
and then into the UK,
South Africa,
and the USA. I
am very excited that the time is finally right for us to do something concrete
together. Metrix has been able to receive JDF data from Prism WIN for a few
years now, reducing data duplication errors and automatically upgrading data to
production-quality instructions for prepress and finishing. But the future of
the printing industry requires a whole new level of integration between MIS and
production, and I'm very excited that with this new agreement Prism and
LithoTechnics will continue to push this envelope even further."
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. The top end Metrix Max takes ganging automation to a higher level by
finding the most cost effective way to print hundreds of jobs across multiple
presses. All editions can import JDF and export imposed PDF. Select editions
can also export various forms of JDF for prepress and finishing. The entire
Metrix family is available in English, German, and Spanish.
