Metrix 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

Metrix

3.8

(19)

Pricing

Starting at $500.00 per month

About Metrix

Metrix is a job planning engine designed to help packaging and printing businesses create and design layout plans using artificial intelligence technology. Key features include layout automation, data visualization, label printing, image editing, and change schedules.

Teams using Metrix can automatically determine the number of required presses, optimum layout for each press sheet, and gain insights into the most cost-effective printing method, sheet size and press. The platform delivers print change calculations for folding carton production and label and tag printing. Additionally, the engine can analyze a variety of layout combinations based on material and ink utilization.

Metrix offers advanced step and repeat and nesting tools, which allow managers to generate cost-effective layouts for display printing and graphics. The solution is suitable for commercial printing, quick print shops, display graphics, packaging, and digital and offset printing.

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Metrix Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $500.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$500.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

Metrix Features

Popular features found in Graphic Design
Collaboration Tools
Content Library
Custom Fonts
Design Management
Pattern, Color & Art Storage
More features of Metrix
Data Visualization
Image Editing
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Metrix User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.8

Ratings Breakdown

21%

42%

32%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.6

Value for money

3.9

Customer support

3.3

Functionality

3.7

Robert E.

Verified reviewer

Printing

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed October 2020

Metrix Review

I really like it... it helps save a ton of time and calculating.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great for Calculating sheets needed and planning Job Layouts for Lithography.

Cons:

Big learning curve, but once you see the workflow you kinda get it.

Henry W.

Verified reviewer

Printing

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

Integrated Metrix

EFI has owned Metrix for years and has been slow to develop solutions for its MIS integrated version. My experience is that much of this is due to the fact that EFI has moved its software development overseas. The developers rarely get it right the first, second or third time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It does a very good job of dealing with ganged jobs. Metrix will read in the estimated hours and material and the associated cost and then creates an optimized plan. When committed back to the MIS software it will update the plan and associated estimated hours and material based on the Metrix layouts. In addition, it will distribute cost collected for time and material based on distribution on the percent of the layout the jobs use.

Cons:

What is the best was related to jobs created from estimates. What it does worst is try to provide optimized plans for estimates as it relates to Pace’s MIS cross part optimization. It does a terrible job of communicating special colors through the XML.

Reasons for choosing Metrix

We chose the MIS, ePace first. Our expectations were that since they were both owned by the same company, EFI, we would receive better integration than we have experienced

Josh S.

Verified reviewer

Printing

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

Metrix....

Metrix software was the best thing out there for quite a few years but recently it is becoming a struggle to use. I believe that once EFI took over the software, it changed!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Lots of options for estimating, planning and prepress.

Cons:

Software upgrades seem to always have issues that take awhile to correct. EFI support is really hit and miss if they can fix an issue. I get a lot of "Future update" answers to the issues we have. My team has not been happy with Metrix over the last few "upgrades".

Madhusudan S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Changed how we conducted estimates

The programme is inflexible and clumsy in my opinion. When you make lots inactive when there are numerous lots listed on a task and you want part of the lots to be off the layout, the software crashes. Dotted lines for scores and perfs, as well as non-traditional shapes, cannot be depicted. An excel spreadsheet would allow me to depict pocket folders and die-cut forms more efficiently. Metrix has changed my layouts after I've configured it to print sheetwise if I need to rearrange layouts, in my experience. If you aren't careful, there is too much to be on the lookout for that might or might not change and could snag you.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It allows for the completion of specific sorts of estimations and is very time-efficient. Estimates are more thorough and precise.It works seamlessly with XMF. Layouts are easily imported, and they can be changed immediately if necessary.

Cons:

On occasion, the graphics are not arranged to make the greatest use of the available space. unable to handle varied imposition.

Jim L.

Verified reviewer

Printing

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

The good, the bad, the ugly

We use this daily to create impositions. Some features have reduced functionality after an upgrade, but are eventually addressed. The software is usually a MacOS version behind, which doesnt seem to bother our end users.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It does the functions that we are looking for (impositions mostly) quickly and efficiently.

Cons:

Each upgrade seems to break our workflow and is painful to get what we consider common sense addressed. Support isnt always helpful and core changes made to the software arent always in the release notes. We have open cases with EFI to address these issues and have moved past them with rollback and skipping versions to meet our end user needs.

Reasons for choosing Metrix

The imposition portion of the software was superior to any other product we used previously.

thomas B.

Verified reviewer

Printing

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

Metrix software - A work in progress

the software is ok, it is similar enough to other impositions. It has great potential, but our company hasn't had it and pace long enough to gain those automated job benifits.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like the connectivity to XMF. The idea of the software is very palatable, our company has had issues in getting it implemented as we do a wide variety of work. When integration is increased and people are taught more on the software it should be a main stapple of our prepress and give us a great deal of automated work done.

Cons:

Very dependent on the estimator. Changing jobs can be simple or extremely difficult to manage with our metrix/pace system. I believe some of our issues are training, also we just got word of an XMF upgrade that will help with some reported metrix issues.

Wanda P.

Verified reviewer

Printing

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

EFI

It is ok, just need to make the AR module easier to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to move through the program, good that is internet based. Easy to pull the standard reports.

Cons:

Since update it is difficult to do AR balances always have to remove the lines that invoice is paid and is zero, that takes a lot of extra time. AR statement in excel no long can use formulas if need to change anything,. Posting invoices have to also make changes again taking longer to post.

Gail M.

Verified reviewer

Printing

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

Metrix layout review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Some of the combination of product features are useful

Cons:

I find the software cumbersome and rigid. If multiple lots are listed on a job and you want some lots not to be on a layout, when you make the lots inactive, the software errors out. Non traditional shapes can't be represented, dotted lines for scores and perfs. I could do more with an excel spreadsheet to represent pocket folders and die cut shapes in less time. I've experienced Metrix changing my layouts once I've set it up to be Perfect to printing sheetwise if I have to reorder layouts. There's too much to have to watch out for that may or may not change that can catch you if you aren't diligent.

Reasons for choosing Metrix

Metrix was implemented before I was hired on.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Good Print Layout Software that I'd used