Creo Demonstrates New Prepress Solutions for Newspapers at NEXPO 2002.Business Editors & High Tech Writers NEXPO 2002 ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2002 Creo Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CREO) (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :CRE CRE Commercial Real Estate CRE Corporate Real Estate CRE Commission for Racial Equality (Scotland) CRE CCD (Charge Coupled Device) and Readout Electronics CRE Camp Response Element ) is demonstrating the Trendsetter(R) NEWS 200 platesetter with new plateloading and front-end systems for newspaper prepress operations at NEXPO 2002 in Orlando, Florida from June 22-24. The Trendsetter NEWS platesetter is the industry's fastest thermal system, producing more than 200 plates per hour with the award-winning SQUAREspot(TM) thermal imaging head for the highest quality and consistency from plate to plate. "Introduced last year at NEXPO, the Trendsetter NEWS family brings all the benefits of thermal platesetting to newspaper producers at the fastest imaging speeds," explains Neil McLean, product manager, Trendsetter NEWS. "In just one year, 70 systems have been installed around the world. The response from our customers has been incredible. A typical customer is on press on day two of the installation and is printing papers on day three." On the Creo booth, the Trendsetter NEWS 200 platesetter is operating with a preloader for an increased on-line capacity to 600 broadsheet or 300 panorama plates. The preloader automatically picks and loads printing plates, removes interleaf Desktop publishing software that was widely used for DOS, Windows 95/98, NT, and a variety of Unix-based computers from Interleaf, Inc., Waltham, MA. Interleaf's full-featured program supported a large number of document and image types, including its ability to handle extremely long paper where required, and passes the plate to the platesetter. More Plate Choices Trendsetter NEWS platesetters now give a broader choice of printing plates than ever before. The new Anocoil 830 T-plates are being imaged by the Trendsetter NEWS 100 system on the Creo booth, as well as on the Anocoil Corporation booth. For the first time, the Trendsetter NEWS is imaging and processing the Southern Lithoplate Cobra 830 TN plates, a new thermal plate from the leading vendor to smaller North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. newspapers. Additional plate choices include the Kodak Polychrome pol·y·chrome adj. 1. Having many or various colors; polychromatic. 2. Made or decorated in many or various colors: polychrome tiles. n. Graphics (KPG KPG Kodak Polychrome Graphics KPG Kingdom Power Glory KPG Key Pair Generator ) ThermalNews plate from KPG's Anitec Newspaper Sales Division, and the DiamondPlate LT-2 and new DiamondPlate LT-N thermal plates from Western Litho Plate & Supply Co./A Lastra Group Company. Proven Technology and Experience Newspapers around the world are installing the Creo platesetter to image thermal plates for newspaper publishing. A 90-day evaluation installation of the Trendsetter NEWS 100 system with Anocoil plates is underway at The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi, a Gannett Co., Inc. newspaper. Also imaging Anocoil plates is the Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a major U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, The Dallas Morning News , with the new 150-plates-per-hour Trendsetter(R) NEWS 150 platesetter. Knight Ridder, Inc., the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States, owns the daily. The Morris Communications Corporation has purchased two Trendsetter NEWS 100 platesetters for the Savannah Morning News The Savannah Morning News is a daily newspaper in Savannah, Georgia. It is published by Morris Communications, Inc. The motto of the paper is "Light of the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry". The paper serves Savannah, its metropolitan area, and parts of South Carolina. . The Free Lance-Star, the daily newspaper of Fredericksburg, Virginia, also recently installed the Trendsetter NEWS platesetter. Newspapers in Italy Below is a list of some newspapers published in Italy. Newspapers
Four models of the Trendsetter NEWS platesetter deliver fast imaging, automatic plate loading and unloading, and a flexible, standard file-format interface to typical newspaper production systems. The machine-to-machine accuracy of the SQUAREspot(TM) thermal imaging heads, combined with the binary nature of thermal newspaper plates, achieves consistent and repeatable halftone In printing, the simulation of a continuous-tone image (shaded drawing, photograph) with dots. All printing processes, except for Cycolor, print dots. In photographically generated halftones, a camera shoots the image through a halftone screen, creating smaller dots for lighter areas and dot structures. Creo technology has long been used by some of the largest newspapers in the world. Dolev(TM) imagesetters from Creo image film for the national edition of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times (printed at 14 sites) and The Wall Street Journal (printed at 17 sites). This spring Brisque(TM) workflow from Creo generated and processed the PDF files for the first-ever color front page of The Wall Street Journal. When the Journal launched its new design with more color this year, it upgraded to a 100-line screen and chose Turbo Screening(TM) software from Creo for smoother dot formation. Creo Demonstrates Prepress Software for Newspapers Creo is also demonstrating the new Prinergy(R) Page Pairer software which integrates into Prinergy(R), Brisque(TM) and third-party workflows. See all the Creo newspaper solutions at NEXPO 2002. About Creo Creo is a world leader in solutions for the graphic arts industry. Core product lines include image capture systems; inkjet proofers; thermal imaging devices for films, plates and proofs; professional color and copydot scanning systems; and workflow management software. Creo is also an Original Equipment Manufacture supplier of on-press imaging technology, components for digital presses, and color servers for high-speed, print-on-demand digital printers. Creo trades under the symbols CREO on NASDAQ and CRE on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. . www.creo.com (C) 2002 Creo Inc. The Creo product names mentioned in this document are trademarks or service marks of Creo Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Other company and brand, product and service names are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Data is subject to change without notice. This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties are described under the caption "Information Regarding Forward-looking Statements" and elsewhere in our Annual Report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2001, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and which are incorporated herein by reference. We do not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release. |
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