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Networked Graphic Production Partners achieve Milestone of 60 plus partners.

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All In Print; Conference & Exhibition, Shanghai, CHINA, June 14-18, 2006 - Networked Graphic Production (NGP) Partners are pleased to announce the milestone achievement of over sixty partners. With the addition of three new partners from the influence and support provided by existing partners at IPEX '06. These new partners are; PrePress-Consulting (www.prepress.ch) is providing consulting and seminars on PDF and JDF workflows for users and vendors in Europe and the US since 1991. Stephan Jaeggi is member of the CIP4 Advisory Board since the beginning. He serves also as the technical officer of the Ghent PDF Workgroup and PDFX-ready in Switzerland as well as technical expert of ISO TC130. “Better exchange of information about JDF. All activities of PrePress-Consulting are focused on open standards.” Stephan Jaeggi, Proprietor Simutek ( www.simutek.se) is the manufacturer and vendor of GKS, a business application for the printing industry. Simutek has more than 25 years experience from working with the printing industry and are committed to deliver an easy-to-use and high-quality application for our customers in Sweden and Norway. ”By joining leading vendors that represent all work flow areas of the printing industry, we will substantially strengthen our development and testing towards fully automated and reliable JDF integrations at customer sites. Potential customers will benefit from the knowledge that our product has been tested with vendors of interest.” Michael Bergman, Marketing Dr-Lauterbach & Partners. (www.dr-lauterbach.de ) is a business consulting and software company. LP. has successfully developed and implemented printing and packaging solutions based on world leading ERP-systems. LP. customers range from small and medium businesses to global enterprises. LP. offers a preconfigured business solution for the printing and packaging industry based on the world leading mySAPERP software amended by industry add-ons. “The NGP membership is very beneficial for LP. because it offers us the opportunity to collaborate with NGP Partners on a common platform to supply joint customers state-of-the-art workflow solutions in the printing and packaging industry.” Michael Lauterbach, Sales Manager All In Print Some partner companies and representatives will be attending All In Print; Show in Shanghai, China as the development of the region becomes more and more apparent. “China and the greater Asian region holds many customer opportunities as well as local vendors that could value from being involved in NGP” says Mark Wilton; Global Initiative Manager, Kodak (Marketing Chair, NGP Partners) “remember the partnership tagline; Integration through Cooperation; this is also true in this part of the world”