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CRAWFORD TECHNOLOGIES JOINS the IBM AFP COLOR CONSORTIUM
Industry Leaders Driving Open Standards
for the Management and Output of Color Across Devices and
Systems
TORONTO, Ontario - August 26, 2005 - Crawford Technologies Inc. today announced it has joined
the AFP Color Consortium, an industry-wide effort initiated
by IBM, to bring reliability, data integrity, quality and
consistency to high-volume color printing environments. The
consortium is comprised of leading global organizations with
a common goal to help define, develop and promote the Advanced
Function Presentation (AFPT) architecture for accurate and
consistent output of color across different AFP devices.
"Crawford Technologies has been helping organizations
around the world efficiently manage high-volume printstream
data for over twenty years", said Ernie Crawford, President
of Crawford Technologies, adding, "We have joined other
industry leaders to participate actively in defining standards
for color management and integration with IBM's AFP architecture,
ultimately making it easier for customers to use advanced
color features in high volume electronic printing and viewing
applications".
Crawford Technologies is committed to driving
best practices and the intelligent evolution of data and document
formats and standards. Crawford Technologies is supporting
the goals of the AFP Color Consortium with its expertise in
transforming and repurposing both legacy and modern print
stream data for high-volume printing and online viewing.
About Crawford Technologies Inc.
Crawford Technologies Inc. provides print stream transform,
extraction and manipulation solutions that are unsurpassed
in the industry. With its committed and knowledgeable product
teams, CrawfordTech offers unparalleled development, design
and support. CrawfordTech is a global leader in delivering
advanced print production transformation products for the
financial, insurance, medical, government and telecommunications
industry. Many of today’s strategic companies in the
document solutions business are CrawfordTech’s partners
participating in the distribution of CrawfordTech's powerful
PRO suite of conversion and enhancement products automating
the transformation of print-stream, data manipulation and
document output. Crawford Technologies, Inc is based in Canada.
Its Toronto and Vancouver development centers produce high-quality,
cross-platform products using advanced development and testing
techniques. To learn more, please visit our website at www.crawfordtech.com.
