June 5, 2008 – Boston, Massachusetts and Appenzell, Switzerland – GMC Software Technology, the standard in personalized communication, today announced that the company's PrintNet Designer software has earned PODi's PPML (the Personalized Print Markup Language) Consumer Program certification. The certification reinforces the company's commitment to provide customers with market leading software solutions for creating and producing high impact, personalized documents. GMC Software Technology joins EFI, HP, Xeikon and Xerox in the first group of industry leaders to receive the PPML Consumer Program certification.

"We are pleased to receive this new certification from PODi," said Dr. René Müller, CEO of GMC Software Technology. "The addition of the PPML Consumer Program certification underscores our commitment to provide our customers with the highest quality products that incorporate industry standard interoperability capabilities of benefit to their technology and business requirements."

PPML is an open-standard variable data publishing language for production-grade digital printing. The addition of PPML Consumer Testing and Certification to the previously announced Producer Certification now provides independent verification for compliant products from different companies that process PPML.