Montreal, Canada, December 17, 2002 – Ultimate Technographics Inc. a leading design and prepress PostScript and PDF workflow provider today announced the launch of a new product, the Ultimate Normalizer, an automated PostScript and PDF creator. Normalizing removes extraneous data in PostScript and PDF files to ensure a more predictable and streamlined workflow. The Ultimate Normalizer provides a simple and economical way to automate predictable PostScript and PDF files with shared networked hot folders. Ultimate Normalizer provides several significant advantages for a prepress workflow: - Simple pre-configured prepress settings for predictable PostScript and PDF creation - Ultimate PDF creation is up to 10X faster than Acrobat and other products that license Acrobat technology - Unlimited shared PDF or PS folders provides workgroup automation - Normalize files for any PostScript Rip and Level 2 Rip - extends the life of older RIPs - Ultimate Normalizer is the lowest price of any network PDF Normalizing solution on the market Robert Dumas, Director of Product Management at Ultimate, says: “PDF workflows have been plagued by two major factors, poor quality PDF creation, and slow performance of most existing Creators or Normalizers. Our solution addresses these problems head-on, providing the simplest and most predictable PostScript and PDF creation, all the while creating these files faster than our competitors, up to ten times faster!” He continues “An added value of our solution is that it works seamlessly with Impostrip, our industry leading imposition solution, for a simple and cost effective Normalized prepress workflow. Larger Normalized workflow systems from Agfa and Creo have many extra bells and whistles that many people never use, like an Internet linked database… we’re focused on printers who want to create a PDF and make a plate, our solution provides a Normalized workflow that includes the most critical features, at a fraction of the competitors workflow price”. Ultimate Normalizer is available on a 5-day demo on the web site: http://www.ultimate-tech.com/