Montreal, Canada, September 25th 2003 – Ultimate Technographics Inc, a leading prepress workflow software developer and the inventor of digital imposition, is pleased to announce the release of Impostrip 7.0. Included in the Impostrip 7.0 release are significant changes that will enable prepress professionals to image more film or plates each day – improving their productivity and profitability. Impostrip 7.0 new features and enhancements include: • Full Mac OS X support for desktop or client-server imposition • Mac OS X optimized • Preview of imposed PDF signature based on Quartz Extreme in Impostrip • Greater performance and speed of RIP and print engine, leveraging multitasking in Mac OS X • CIP 4 JDF workflow support • Expanded support for several updated/upgraded design and publishing applications David Watson, President and CEO Ultimate Technographics, “Impostrip is widely recognized as the world’s fastest imposition solution, owing to its innovative client-server imposition workflow architecture. While competing imposition solutions are hampered by lengthy transfer times from moving huge prepress files across networks for imposing and RIPing, Impostrip revolutionized imposition workflow by working with instruction files on a client station and leaving the massive prepress production files on a central server or RIP”. He continues “Impostrip 7.0 is the result of extensive re-engineering our product to fully leverage the power in Mac OS X. Using Mac OS X, our imposed signature preview provides an interactive view of what the final printed sheet will look like – the new speed of previewing in Mac OS X makes this a functional and realistic production feature - not a luxury – this feature will have a huge impact on overall print quality and accuracy”. "The power and stability of a UNIX-based operating system, the cutting-edge graphics technologies and the breakthrough Aqua interface allow for a rich computing experience and make Mac OS X the leading operating system in prepress and print production." said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "By leveraging the power and leading graphics system of Mac OS X, Ultimate expands the capability of Impostrip and delivers fast imposition workflows for increased productivity and maximized print quality."