GRAPHICS OF THE AMERICAS, MIAMI, FL -- January 24, 2003 -- Creo is featuring award-winning prepress solutions to enhance the productivity of broad commercial printers and packaging trade shops and converters at the Graphics of the Americas trade show underway in Miami, Florida until January 26. Productive Solutions... "Increased market competition is driving our customers to extract the most value from their current investment," explains Angel Mena, director of Creo Latin America. "Printers are looking for ways to provide higher value while watching their costs-they can do this with Creo. Over 600 Latin American customers are benefiting from the product leadership Creo delivers. Our customers in Brazil, Peru, Chile, Mexico and other countries are reducing cycle time and improving their ability to communicate efficiently and cost-effectively with their print buyers. The Internet is changing the way they produce jobs and as technologies converge, high-quality photo-realistic printing is becoming their competitive advantage." At the Show... Creo is showing the 4-up Lotem(tm) 400 thermal platesetter, a perfect plug-and-play solution for broad commercial printers who own Brisque(tm) and PS/M workflow products from Creo. Also on display, the Prinergy(r) workflow offers printers the efficiencies of a scalable system configuration that can grow as they do. Preps(r) software, the imposition tool of choice in the commercial printing industry; and UpFront(r), the complete job production planning tool, are also being shown. For Packaging... For packaging and converting customers, Creo offers two packaging workflows. Brisque(tm) Pack workflow offers an easy growth path for Brisque users who are expanding into the packaging market, and is an ideal solution for packaging trade shops, printers and converters. Prinergy Powerpack(tm) workflow is a fully integrated, automated system designed for the unique needs of offset and flexographic converters and trade shops. Creo is also showing Pandora(r) software for automating packaging and label layouts. The Latest Products... Creo is exhibiting its new proofing solutions -- the Veris(tm) proofer and the Integris(tm) proofer. The Veris contract proofer uses Multi-Drop Array(tm) imaging head technology to produce the finest-quality inkjet proofing available today. The affordable Integris proofing system features remarkable consistency, stability and image integrity for high-quality imposition/layout and color proofing. Integris is an ideal solution for printers looking for affordable high-quality creative, imposition or layout proofing. The new iQsmart(tm)3 scanner is also at Graphics of the Americas. It provides top-quality scanning results and high productivity within an efficient, versatile workflow. The iQsmart scanner meets the challenging needs of today's imaging professionals at an affordable price. Creo is exhibiting in booth #671 at Graphics of the Americas at the Miami Beach Convention Center from January 24-26.