Gannett Co. Newspapers Choose Creo CTP Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003 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 pleased to announce that two more Gannett Co., Inc. divisions have purchased the Creo computer-to-plate newspaper solution. Gannett Printing and Publishing in Pensacola, FL purchased the Trendsetter trend·set·ter n. One that initiates or popularizes a trend: "The Golden State, ever the trendsetter, reformed its property tax" New York. (R) NEWS 70 computer-to-plate (CTP CTP (cytidine triphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Computer-To-Plate) The production of printing plates directly from the computer without requiring film as an intermediate step. ) system and the Prinergy(R) workflow management system for the production of two local publications and commercial work. "Creo will provide solutions for both the high resolution requirements of commercial printing and the high plate-volume of our newspaper operations," said Adrian Enfinger, systems manager of the Pensacola News Journal The Pensacola News Journal is a daily (seven day, mornings) newspaper serving the Pensacola, Florida area. It is Northwest Florida's most widely-read daily. The News Journal is owned by Gannett Co. . "The imaging systems at the two nearby sites can back each other up, which minimizes our total investment." The Pensacola News Journal, a 64,000-circulation daily, is leading the US newspaper market by selecting the industry's first end-to-end PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. workflow solution for the newspaper prepress market. The Prinergy(R) Newsrun workflow management system is designed for the newspaper production environment with automated, newspaper-specific impositions and edition planning. The workflow allows for extended close times, greater flexibility in dealing with last-minute changes, and large numbers of pages output faster, at less cost than before. The Pensacola News Journal will image 100 plates per hour with the Trendsetter(R) NEWS 100 computer-to-plate system. Gannett Printing and Publishing will use Prinergy workflow with Preps(R), the industry-favorite imposition software. The Creo digital solution for newspaper prepress includes the Trendsetter NEWS CTP system for imaging printing plates. Creo offers the Trendsetter NEWS thermal CTP device with a choice of five speeds-50, 70, 100, 150 and 200 plates per hour-to suit newspaper-publishing facilities of all sizes. The Trendsetter NEWS platesetter delivers fast imaging, automatic plate loading and unloading, and a flexible, standard file-format interface to typical newspaper production systems. Another Gannett Co. newspaper, The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. State of Mississippi. It is one of the county seats of Hinds County; Raymond is the other county seat. As of the 2000 census Jackson's population was 184,256. , purchased two Trendsetter NEWS 100 CTP systems earlier this year. "The Trendsetter NEWS thermal system has helped improve quality, saves output time of plates, and the plates clean up faster on press," says Brian Ambor, director of operations. The Clarion-Ledger has a daily circulation of more than 100,000. Gannett Co., Inc. is the USA's largest newspaper group by circulation. Gannett's 95 daily newspapers have a combined daily paid circulation of 7.7 million. They include USA TODAY USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. , the largest-selling daily in the US. Creo has sold 107 CTP devices for newspapers to publishers in the US, Venezuela, Italy, France, Greece, China, Singapore, and the Philippines. 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) 2003 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. 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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, 2002, 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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