SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULA 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
April 25, 2000
CREO PRODUCTS INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
3700 Gilmore Way
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5G 4M1
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)
Form 20-F x Form 40-F
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(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the
information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information
to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934.)
Yes No x
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Creo Announces CreoScitex Partnership Program for Comprehensive
Color VI Printing Solutions
Vancouver, BC, Canada (May 30, 2000) Creo Products Inc. (NASDAQ - CREO, TSE -
CRE) ("Creo") is pleased to announce that CreoScitex has formed a partnership
program with leading vendors of variable information (VI) authoring tools and
products to provide the broadest array of market-ready solutions for color VI
printing. Under the ongoing program, CreoScitex and its partners are co-
developing and integrating color VI solutions based on CreoScitex Spire color
servers and the CreoScitex Variable Print Specification (VPS) language. The list
of participating vendors includes Atlas, GMC, PageFlex, PrintSoft, and Xerox,
all of whom have completed development. All currently available solutions are
being demonstrated at Drupa 2000, the world's largest trade show for the
printing industry, underway in Dusseldorf, Germany, May 18-31.
More than 1.5 billion personalized pages, are printed daily worldwide.
Currently, the vast majority involves black and white printing only. However,
the technology to transfer a large part of this immense print volume to color is
now available. As a result of the extensive CreoScitex partnership program,
printers who want to extend their capabilities to color VI printing can choose
from a broad variety of comprehensive solutions, matching their choice of VI
authoring tools to their particular experience and application requirements.
Those who are just now entering the color VI market will benefit from working
with an exceptionally robust production solution that meets all personalized
printing needs. Additionally, printers who are already working with the partner
tools for black and white VI printing will find an easy migration to color using
the CreoScitex Spire servers.
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The market-ready VI solutions deliver unparalleled creation, processing,
management, and printing capabilities for all personalized printing
applications. While the various authoring tools meet workflow and data
management, processing, and connectivity needs, CreoScitex VPS provides the
vehicle to transfer the data to the production facility. The solutions also
support Xerox VIPP PostScript extensions, when VIPP is generated by Data
Marriage. Bringing all the elements together is the CreoScitex Spire family of
color servers, which provide outstanding processing capabilities and production
management control.
"This partnership program is benefiting CreoScitex and partner customers as well
as the personalized printing market in general," said Hanan Yosefi, Vice
President, Printing Workflow Solutions, CreoScitex Israel. "We are proactively
participating in the development of standards for this emerging market and we
will continue to ensure the highest levels of connectivity for our customers. We
look forward to extending our partnership program to include even more vendors."
Vendors partnering with CreoScitex are excited about the benefits their joint
solutions offer, as evidenced by the following comments:
Harry Raaphorst, CEO, Atlas:
"Atlas is CreoScitex' first partner to offer VPS running on Macintosh and PC
platforms. With our existing installed base in the DocuTech environment and in
other Xerox color digital printers, and the new connectivity to the CreoScitex
Spire Color server line, we are well-positioned to provide our customers with
the best solutions for all their personalized printing needs." The Atlas
solution is available now. http://www.atlassoftware.nl/
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Dr. Rene Muller, CEO, GMC (Switzerland):
"GMC's PrintNet has long provided outstanding capabilities for producing direct
mail prints in a variety of environments and formats. For us, implementing the
VPS language was easy since we already had PostScript capabilities." The GMC
solution is ready for beta testing. http://www.gmc.net/
Paul Trevithick, President, Pageflex:
"As the demand for personalized printing increases, so too does the need for
high performance variable printing RIPs. CreoScitex color servers enable us to
present the best throughput by processing recurring images only once. We are
very excited to be demonstrating our one-to-one marketing solutions with
CreoScitex at Drupa." The Pageflex solution is now ready for beta testing.
http://www.pageflexinc.com
Harald Weinhandl, General Manager, PrintSoft Australia:
"Our authoring tool, PreS, is already renowned for its robustness and
performance in black and white printing. Now, by partnering with CreoScitex, we
can offer those same advantages for full-color digital output in data intensive
applications. The results we've achieved with VPS are astounding." The
PrintSoft solution is ready for beta testing. http://www.printsoft.com
Linda Becker, Vice President, Color Document Production Systems, Xerox
Corporation: "Xerox provides solutions that can drive both VPS and VIPP jobs to
our production color digital printers. This positions Xerox as the leader in
addressing all variable printing applications, from statements to one-to-one
marketing documents, with comprehensive end-to-end solutions based on CreoScitex
Spire technology." The Xerox solution is now ready for beta testing.
http://www.xerox.com.
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