Southern Lithoplate is expanding its recently announced Certified Strategic Business Partner Program with a partnership agreement with EskoArtwork. The new partnership will bring additional systems solutions to Commercial Printers by combining EskoArtwork's prepress expertise with Southern Lithoplate's commercial digital printing plates and allied prepress products.

EskoArtwork is a well known international leader of state of the art automated workflow software products that improve productivity, facilitate job turn around, reduce errors, improve customer communications, and reduce costs, in the highly competitive commercial print industry. Now EskoArtwork is adding a new dimension to its offering by linking prepress and press in an integrated commercial printing production chain.

Mark Quinlan, President of EskoArtwork North America comments, "We are pleased to participate in Southern Lithoplate's Strategic Business Partner Program, which allows commercial printers to bundle integrated, 'best in class' solutions for themselves. Just as our workflow solutions allow commercial printers to efficiently create quality work, we know that Southern Lithoplate digital plates are proven for quality, value and performance too."

Steve Mattingly, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Southern Lithoplate stated that "Cementing our commitment to the North American commercial print market, we are delighted to partner with a company with the track record of EskoArtwork. We believe that the combination of their innovative prepress software applications with our suite of commercial printing products will provide new and important benefits for our commercial printing customers."