Six years later, Metamation has not only achieved this goal, but is constantly raising the benchmark set by itself. With the release of version 5.1 of Imp®, Metamation announced the hitherto unheard of die-database search feature. This new features allows packaging printers to dynamically search tens of thousands of existing dies to find geometrically matching dies for a new job. Apart from a metadata-based search, Imp. is capable of comparing geometry of the current job with thousands of jobs in the database to find close matches. A user can superimpose the geometries and graphically see how close the match is. Further, Imp is also capable of making the necessary cost calculations to see if the printer is better off using the existing die or making a new one. It is also important to mention here that one can seed this die-database with existing dies by importing the industry standard CF2 CAD files.

This feature, along with many others was showcased by Metamation this September at Print 13, McCormick Place, Chicago USA. Printers from across the Americas were impressed by Metamations’ offerings for the printing and packaging segments. One of the features that especially had a lot of resonance with customer needs at this exhibition was the ganging feature.

Ganging seems to be one of the answers to the challenges faced by offset printers today. The revenue and profit that this approach can give is vast. Combining different jobs and printing them together can drastically reduce make ready and boost productivity. The catch however, is the problem of figuring out how to combine multiple jobs efficiently and economically. It is a complex problem to solve and even with experienced personnel it is impossible to achieve consistent results. Metamations’ Imp is helping printers address this problem comprehensively. Imp is powered by a sophisticated ganging algorithm that can calculate how to combine hundreds of jobs in a profitable way, keeping in mind the print-specific requirements of each job and the printing & finishing capabilities of the printers’ print-shop. This intelligent software has answers for most of the challenges that a gang-printer could face.

At Print13 – Chicago, there were also many commercial printers who are stepping into the packaging segment to get a piece of the pie in the booming packaging industry. But, they are finding out that equipping their pre-press setup for processing packaging jobs is not trivial and often requires huge investments in new software product suites and training. Imp’s built-in intelligence and unique ability to handle both commercial and packaging jobs allows even a novice operator to be successful.

Metamation has more than 15 years of experience in developing high-end nesting solutions for the sheet metal industry. Today, customers around the world trust Metamation nesting technology for optimal outputs from costly sheets of metal, wood & stone. Below, we highlight one very special feature of our nesting algorithm.

One of the major issues faced by StylKit users was when they had to customize a standard design imported from the template library. Typical examples of these includes cases when the user needed to add a bottle support structure to a standard crash lock carton for holding the liquor bottles intact, or when the user needed to have a nib lock arrangement added to a standard tray for reinforcement of the walls of the tray.

With StylKit users can edit or create new designs from scratch. A Packaging specific CAD environment is now bundled along with the StylKit template library. The StylKit Editor is a palette of drafting tools that facilitates easy creation and editing of structural designs.

BENEFITS OF STYLKIT EDITOR

Version 5 of our prestigious product Imp is here now packed with more automation and exciting features. We eagerly look forward to meeting customers with this new version. We believe that this is a landmark release with respect to the packaging segment, with multiple new innovative features have been added in this area. While some of these new features are based on market feedback, others were created to go beyond market expectation.

Some of the major features are listed below

After ensuring that this is a unique product in the packaging segment, efforts were made by the BrainNew team to translate our products. Mr. Litseh Lu is keen on offering our solutions to the printers in China and Taiwan along with his flagship post-rip imposition workflow.