Ghent, Belgium – March 27, 2006 – Artwork Systems Group N.V., a world leader in professional pre-press software, announces that the company has signed a commercial partnership with Punch Graphix N.V., who designs, develops and delivers digital printing and prepress solutions for the global graphics industry through its brands Xeikon and basysPrint. Under this partnership, Artwork Systems and Punch Graphix will promote each others products and will inform each other when prospects or clients are interested in investing in a basysPrint CtP or front end packages for the packaging and high end commercial printing segments. Artwork Systems is one of the major suppliers of software for print pre-production and its products ArtPro, Nexus, and Odystar are well accepted in both markets. The partnership with Punch Graphix has already resulted in a number of successful joint installations, such as Pattyn BVBA (Bruges, Belgium) and Speciaaldrukkerij Lijnco B.V. (Groningen, the Netherlands). During Ipex, the Global Technology Trade Event for Print, Publishing & Media (Birmingham, April 4-11, 2006); Artwork Systems will be present on the Punch Graphix booth branded as basysPrint. Visit the basysPrint booth 06-D30 and the Artwork Systems booth 06-A20.