HONG KONG -- December 1, 2004 -- Creo Asia Pacific Limited is proud to congratulate the winners of the 2nd Asian Print Awards 2004 in Singapore, an annual awards program launched in 2003 to promote excellence in printing in Asia. At the awards ceremony, held November 19, 2004 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Singapore, numerous medals were presented to Creo customers from countries throughout Asia. Creo customers won nearly half of the awards presented at the 2nd Asian Print Awards 2004. Creo Quote... "We are very pleased to see the value of Creo solutions demonstrated by the award-winning print jobs," said Garron Helman, managing director of Creo Asia Pacific. "By using business-accelerating solutions from Creo, our customers are more successful than their competitors and are leading the industry." "Last year Creo customers received strong recognition at the awards and the success continues this year. We are very proud to share in the success with our customers," said Mr. Helman. "As the leading prepress supplier in the graphic arts industry, Creo provides the best solutions to help our customers achieve high quality printing that stands out from their competitors. We are impressed by the quality achieved by our customers in Asia and know that they will continue to thrive through today's challenging market environment." Award Winners... Creo customers won awards for achieving outstanding print quality in nearly all the award categories. They included: -- C&C Offset Printing (Hong Kong); -- China Color (Taiwan); -- Colortone, Cochin (India) ; -- Colourscan (Singapore) ; -- Comart Lithographer (India) ; -- Kanoksilp (Thailand) ; -- ImageScan (Malaysia) ; -- Kian Joo (Malaysia), ; -- L.Rex (Hong Kong) ; -- Lexmedia (Philippines) ; -- Pragati (India) ; -- Saik Wah (Singapore) ; -- and Tien Wah (Singapore). The remarkable performance of several Creo customers was recognized with multiple awards: Colourscan was presented with five gold, one silver and two bronze medals; C&C Offset Printing earned five medals including two gold; China Color and Pragati took home four medals; L.Rex and Saik Wah Press both won three. As the largest independent supplier of prepress systems with an unmatched range of digital solutions for the printing industry, Creo provide complete solutions, including prepress imaging equipment, software, printing plates and proofing materials, for all sizes of printers and help them to easily adopt digital print production. This allows our customers to reduce operating costs, increase print quality and allows them to serve their customers more efficiently.