Montreal, Canada and New York, USA — 18 February 2025 — Ultimate Tech, the leader in imposition and finishing automation software and SpencerMetrics, the leading data collection, monitoring, and data analysis platform provider, announce that they have partnered to enhance productivity metrics within the print production industry.
SpencerMetrics provides intelligent solutions for accurate, automatic machine data collection, monitoring, and analysis from digital and analog printing, packaging, and finishing equipment. With their patented and vendor-neutral suite of products, including CONNECT®,“lights-out” LYNK®, and Automater™, SpencerMetrics provides powerful tools for the printing community to optimize their operations. By providing in-depth, real-time analysis users can make data-driven decisions to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and optimize their capital utilization. SpencerMetrics’ solutions are designed for ease-of-use and are compatible with all brands of print and finishing devices, providing a comprehensive shop floor solution.
Ultimate Tech offers productivity tools such as high-performance automated imposition processing, and agnostic bindery and finishing automation. Ultimate Impostrip® is designed with productivity in mind. With the increasing demand for shorter runs and quicker turnaround times, Ultimate Impostrip® provides “lights out”, hands free, true reliable automation. From imposition to true shape nesting, the generation of marks and the intelligence to dynamically place Print Elements on the sheet optimally and automatically is their speciality. Whether considering a digital print environment, a web-to-print business, an increase in profitability or if a print service provider simply wants to generate more revenue with the same resources, automation is the answer.
By connecting Ultimate Impostrip to SpencerMetrics CONNECT software, mutual users can now benefit from enhanced data availability with more granular job-based data. This combination of products, along with the capability to monitor and assess all devices on the shop floor, enables a more detailed view of the production process and empowers users to make more informed decisions.
“This partnership between SpencerMetrics and Ultimate Tech will significantly enhance efficiency in the print production community by integrating information from Ultimate Impostrip’s intelligent imposition automation with SpencerMetrics CONNECT’s real-time data analytics and automation tools, says Vishal Sahay, Vice President at SpencerMetrics. “Print providers can gain a data-driven, automated workflow that delivers superior efficiency, cost savings, and operational adaptability for seamless end-to-end production optimization.”
“To increase productivity, users must first automate and remove as many manual touch points as possible, while using smart software to maximise their workflow such as Ultimate Impostrip,” says Julie Watson, Ultimate Tech CEO. “Once this is achieved, tying it all together with data tracking and analysis can empower users to make better decisions based on their active data and not assumptions. After all, Olympic athletes spend countless hours training and tracking their performances to always find better ways to perform and beat world records. Taking this mindset to print production can be a game changer.”
Highlighted at Hunkeler Innovationdays this February in Lucerne, Switzerland, find out more about this integration at Ultimate Tech Stand 301 and SpencerMetrics Stand 312 in Hall 1.
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About Ultimate Tech (Ultimate-Tech.com)
Automation in overdrive. Print Service Providers worldwide benefit from increased productivity in a digital and hybrid environment thanks to Ultimate Tech’s innovative and automation driven software solutions. Ultimate Tech invented digital imposition with the first release of Ultimate Impostrip® in 1989 and it supports the print industry community, bringing unique and proven capability to centralize and simplify — with unmatched performance and flexibility — the automation of print production workflows for a bright future.
About SpencerMetrics (SpencerMetrics.com)
SpencerMetrics LLC, part of the Spencer Associates Group, is dedicated to serving customer needs in modern production printing through innovative software solutions and services. Their patented, vendor-neutral systems collect machine data and shop floor information, providing real-time analysis and detailed reports via a cloud-based dashboard. This allows users to make data-driven decisions to increase efficiency and optimize capital utilization.