Skip to content
English
Get a Demo

Print Layout Software and Planning Solution | Metrix

Print Layout and Imposition Software: Effortless Layout Management

Introducing Metrix, the groundbreaking imposition and planning solution designed to meet the diverse needs of the printing industry.

Print ePS - Purpose Built Solution | Print Layout Software and Planning Solution
heroBannerWatermark

Whether you work in commercial offset printing, digital print, sign and display, tag & label printing or folding carton production, Metrix is the perfect choice for streamlining operations, increasing productivity, and optimizing efficiency. 

With Metrix, you can effortlessly manage complex print layouts and supercharge your production process. Our advanced software offers an intuitive user interface and innovative features that will revolutionize your printing project planning and execution. 

Say goodbye to manual calculations and time-consuming tasks. Metrix automates the imposition and layout process, ensuring precision and accuracy every time. By automating planning and layout procedures, you save valuable time and resources, allowing you to focus on delivering top-quality prints to your clients. 

But that's not all – Metrix is also a cost-conscious solution that helps optimize resources and reduce waste. Our intelligent algorithms empower you to minimize material usage, optimize plate layouts, and reduce setup times. This not only saves costs but also reduces your environmental footprint. 

Experience the exceptional capabilities of Metrix and take your printing business to new heights. Whether you're a small print shop or a large-scale facility, Metrix is the adaptable solution that adjusts to your specific requirements. Say goodbye to inefficiencies and welcome increased productivity, profitability, and satisfied customers. 

Choose Metrix – the comprehensive and cost-effective print layout software and planning solution that will redefine your workflow. 

Benefits

waveform-lines Icon - eProductivity Software
Dynamic Layouts

Dynamically create optimal layouts maximizing sheet coverage with billable products reducing waste and maximizing profits. Combine artworks/sections from multiple jobs/customers into a single production run. 

table-layout Icon - eProductivity Software
N-Up Optimized

Optimize your die-based work automatically by automatically calculating ratios for multiple products/versions/flavors and snap artwork to dies to maximize production. 

brain-circuit Icon - eProductivity Software
Intuitive

Utilize interactive interface to snap pages / object and marks to any other object including sheet, plate or artwork. Easily edit layouts with drag-and-drop functionality and real-time rendering of all content.

thought-bubble Icon - eProductivity Software
Intelligent

Leverage intelligent automation for production planning, ensuring the most cost-efficient job path. Benefit from a highly visual workflow review that streamlines your processes.

waveform-lines Icon - eProductivity Software
Dynamic Layouts

Dynamically create optimal layouts maximizing sheet coverage with billable products reducing waste and maximizing profits. Combine artworks/sections from multiple jobs/customers into a single production run. 

table-layout Icon - eProductivity Software
N-Up Optimized

Optimize your die-based work automatically by automatically calculating ratios for multiple products/versions/flavors and snap artwork to dies to maximize production. 

brain-circuit Icon - eProductivity Software
Intuitive

Utilize interactive interface to snap pages / object and marks to any other object including sheet, plate or artwork. Easily edit layouts with drag-and-drop functionality and real-time rendering of all content.

thought-bubble Icon - eProductivity Software
Intelligent

Leverage intelligent automation for production planning, ensuring the most cost-efficient job path. Benefit from a highly visual workflow review that streamlines your processes.

What Does Metrix Imposition Printing Software Offer?

Metrix stands as the pinnacle of imposition printing software, offering print layout solutions and advanced job planning capabilities.

Harnessing decades of experience to inject intelligence into the planning process to swiftly generate powerful layout plans, resulting in heightened accuracy and responsiveness in estimating, and enhanced press utilization. Metrix is versatile, supporting the planning of conventional sheet and roll-fed presses, digital cutsheet devices, as well as roll-to-roll and flatbed inkjet presses. 

Discover the full potential of Metrix, available in both standalone and integrated configurations, seamlessly fitting into eProductivity Software's Midmarket Print Suite. 

Metrix v2 (1)

Unlocking Efficiency: The Inner Workings of Metrix

Metrix operates through its data-driven integration engine, which plays a pivotal role in achieving consistency, efficiency, and error-free intelligent planning and imposition for operations of all sizes.

Metrix offers versatile deployment options, whether as a standalone solution, integrated within an eProductivity Suite, or as a component within a third-party workflow or MIS system.

Metrix-1

Enhancing Pre-Press and Production

Efficiency

For commercial printing, Metrix operates as a standalone application, but it can also seamlessly integrate with industry-leading pre-press workflow solutions like Kodak® Prinergy, ECO3® Apogee, Heidelberg® Prinect, and Fujifilm® XMF.

This integration enables automated imposition and layouts, allowing Metrix to generate intent-based JDF for third-party prepress solutions or fully imposed PDFs. This versatility and adaptability make Metrix suitable for a wide range of applications.

Metrix is a time-saving automation tool that offers intelligent, cost-driven imposition. It dynamically assigns jobs to the most suitable press based on operator preferences, material considerations, and equipment operational cost data. This valuable data can be leveraged in the estimation process, leading to more precise job costing.

Metrix v4

Start Managing Your Print Better Today!

Our print software solutions drive profitability, reduce cost of sales and manufacturing, and empower successful transformation. 

Get a Demo
ctaWaterMark
file-invoice-dollar Icon - eProductivity Software
Revolutionizing Estimating, Planning & Layout Automation

When seamlessly integrated into an eProductivity Software suite or third-party MIS or ERP system, Metrix empowers you to incorporate production environment data into your planning and layout procedures.

This integration serves as a vital connection between prepress, planning, estimating, and production. It offers the capability to eliminate errors, enhance process efficiency, optimize manufacturing operations, reduce costs, and elevate quality standards.

Furthermore, Metrix's integration with the Midmarket Print Suite enhances estimation and scheduling tasks by providing real-time, accurate job costing and planning data, thereby driving improvements across your workflow. 

chart-tree-map Icon - eProductivity Software
Effortless Automation

Metrix takes the guesswork out of your print planning by automatically calculating the number of press sheets required and the ideal layout for each sheet.

It goes the extra mile by determining the most cost-effective printing method, the appropriate press, and sheet size. This automation is dynamic and unmatched, capable of processing numerous orders and products on a single layout effortlessly.

Once your layouts are finalized, Metrix enables you to export them seamlessly to prepress as JDF or imposed PDF files, to finishing as JDF or CIP4 data, and provides barcoded information for your shipping department. 

arrows-maximize Icon - eProductivity Software
Customized for Wide Format

Metrix boasts cutting-edge nesting and step-and-repeat tools, meticulously crafted to produce the most economically viable layouts for wide format, sign and display printing, and graphics.

Given that substrates and materials often constitute the most significant cost factor in any project, Metrix excels at optimizing resource utilization and enhancing profitability for your operation.

Furthermore, Metrix offers the capability to rectify and reposition crop marks, seamlessly transmitting data to your cutters to facilitate complete production automation. 

file-invoice-dollar Icon - eProductivity Software
Revolutionizing Estimating, Planning & Layout Automation

When seamlessly integrated into an eProductivity Software suite or third-party MIS or ERP system, Metrix empowers you to incorporate production environment data into your planning and layout procedures.

This integration serves as a vital connection between prepress, planning, estimating, and production. It offers the capability to eliminate errors, enhance process efficiency, optimize manufacturing operations, reduce costs, and elevate quality standards.

Furthermore, Metrix's integration with the Midmarket Print Suite enhances estimation and scheduling tasks by providing real-time, accurate job costing and planning data, thereby driving improvements across your workflow. 

chart-tree-map Icon - eProductivity Software
Effortless Automation

Metrix takes the guesswork out of your print planning by automatically calculating the number of press sheets required and the ideal layout for each sheet.

It goes the extra mile by determining the most cost-effective printing method, the appropriate press, and sheet size. This automation is dynamic and unmatched, capable of processing numerous orders and products on a single layout effortlessly.

Once your layouts are finalized, Metrix enables you to export them seamlessly to prepress as JDF or imposed PDF files, to finishing as JDF or CIP4 data, and provides barcoded information for your shipping department. 

arrows-maximize Icon - eProductivity Software
Customized for Wide Format

Metrix boasts cutting-edge nesting and step-and-repeat tools, meticulously crafted to produce the most economically viable layouts for wide format, sign and display printing, and graphics.

Given that substrates and materials often constitute the most significant cost factor in any project, Metrix excels at optimizing resource utilization and enhancing profitability for your operation.

Furthermore, Metrix offers the capability to rectify and reposition crop marks, seamlessly transmitting data to your cutters to facilitate complete production automation. 

Effortless Planning and Layouts: eProductivity’s Metrix Integration

As a seamlessly integrated solution, Metrix collaborates with eProductivity Software's top-tier purpose-built technology solutions, Pace. Together, they offer a comprehensive set of planning and layout tools seamlessly embedded within the core MIS/ERP platform. 

Integration Edition

Administrators and users seamlessly access essential features within the base MIS/ERP application's user interface. Behind the scenes, data is efficiently communicated to Metrix for processing. 

Operators experience a smooth transition without the need for cross-training on new software. They can leverage their existing familiarity with MIS/ERP tools. 

This integrated solution harmoniously combines layout, planning, and estimation processes. 

CSR's (Customer Service Representatives) can effortlessly plan jobs for devices, generating layouts that enable rapid and precise cost modeling, thus ensuring sustained profitability. 

 

Standalone Edition

The standalone version of Metrix is compatible with nearly all pre-press solutions, including Kodak® Prinergy, ECO3® Apogee, Fuji® System XMF, and any workflow solution that supports the JDF/XML protocol. 

Metrix is licensed on a per-user client basis, empowering teams to efficiently plan, organize, and create print-ready layouts. 

What sets Metrix apart is its exclusive proprietary shop floor data, which allows users to effectively manage, and plan jobs based on equipment specifications and costs—an unparalleled feature not found in any other solution. 

Enquire About Our Print Layout Software and Planning Solution

Want to get in touch? We’d love to hear from you. 

We are eager to learn how we can help you. To start a conversation centered on your goals and how we can support you, simply complete the short form on this page.

If you are already a customer of Print ePS, the quickest way to get help from our support team is by following the link below.

Product Support

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Metrix handle different types of printing jobs?

Metrix is versatile and supports various types of printing jobs, including flat, folded, book, irregular shapes, single die, and display graphics. Its intelligent algorithms can make repeatable planning and imposition decisions based on equipment, job requirements, and available media inventory. This flexibility ensures that Metrix can handle complex jobs across multiple workflows and output devices, making it suitable for commercial printers, wide-format printers, packaging, and label manufacturers.

Can Metrix be integrated with other systems?

Yes, Metrix can be integrated with various systems. It can function as a standalone solution for advanced impositions and layouts or be embedded into MIS systems like Pace, Monarch, Tharstern and Technique. Metrix can also be used as a headless integration with Nubium, and it supports an Automation Server for seamless integration with iQuote and Technique. Additionally, it integrates with prepress systems like PRINERGY, APOGEE, XMF, RAMPAGE, HARLEQUIN, Automation Engine, and Xitron, as well as output integration with JDF, imposed PDF, and digital cutting.

What features make Metrix efficient for planning and imposition?

Metrix offers several features that enhance planning and imposition efficiency. It includes intelligent algorithms that dynamically calculate press sheets, layouts, and cost-effective printing methods. Metrix also supports ganging, which allows up to 160 different orders to be processed on a single layout, optimizing resource use. The centralized database feature helps store and manage critical data like presses, finishing equipment, and stocks, ensuring uniformity. Its workflow automation capabilities allow for processing project data through MXML or CSV files, expediting project throughput.

How does Metrix handle workflow automation and what are its benefits?

Metrix offers robust workflow automation capabilities, allowing project data to be processed through MXML or CSV files, significantly speeding up project throughput. This automation reduces manual intervention, minimizes errors, and ensures consistent, repeatable results. By integrating planning and imposition into a single step, Metrix simplifies complex processes and makes it easy for operators of all skill levels to generate advanced plans, which improves overall operational efficiency.