Toronto, Ontario, February 20, 2002 - ProMetaWare Inc. and Crawford Technologies Inc. announce an agreement whereby ProMetaWare Inc. will become the exclusive distributor of the ProMeta suite of products in the United States. The ProMeta suite of products provides conversions of print steams including Xerox Metacode and LCDS, AFP, PCL and PostScript into electronic formats including PDF, AFP, PostScript, PCL, XML and HTML. These exceptional quality, high fidelity solutions can be run on a multitude of platforms including Windows, Unix and MVS. ProMetaWare transform technology is widely recognized for its quality and performance and is therefore used by a wide variety of solution providers and customers enabling them to easily integrate new printer and communications technology, without modifying their current applications. "ProMetaWare is the only company with a complete suite of transform products." States Jay Pollitt, Vice President Sales, Western Region, ProMetaWare Inc. "Our customers have been asking for fast print transform products with superior image fidelity; now we can finally give them what they want." Because the ProMeta suite of products is so powerful, software developers have chosen to embed the technology into their solutions. Organizations that market ProMeta in their products include CheckFree i-Solutions, IBM Corporation, Xerox Corporation, Metavante Corporation and NearStar Inc., "This exciting new agreement supports Crawford Technologies continued leadership in providing digital solutions for document transforms, extractions and manipulations, and enables the company to extend its reach and value within American corporations and government." States Ernie Crawford, President, Crawford Technologies Inc. About Crawford Technologies Inc. Crawford Technologies Inc. is a software development company that builds the ProMeta suite of products, high volume print stream transformation, extraction and manipulation software solutions. The ProMeta suite of products are used in many large organizations in many market sectors and in different parts of the world, and are widely recognized for their quality and performance. With Crawford Technologies’ ability to provide outstanding quality software, transform fidelity that is unmatched in the industry and superlative technical support, the ProMeta suite of products have become the products of choice for many service bureaus. In addition, software development shops, such as Checkfree iSolutions, IBM and Xerox have chosen to embed the ProMeta technology into their solutions. About ProMetaWare Inc. ProMetaWare Inc., the fastest growing print transform vendor in the industry, markets and delivers the full line of ProMeta print transform, extraction and manipulation software products through its regional offices in New York, Texas and Colorado. ProMetaWare targets service bureaus, in-house IT departments, and software vendors in the Electronic Printing, Imaging and Bill Presentment markets.