VANCOUVER, CANADA -- Systems produced by CreoScitex, a division of Creo Products Inc. (NASDAQ: CREO; TSE: CRE), performed flawlessly in Sydney, NSW, Australia to produce the majority of printed material about the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Most of the publications -- brochures, booklets, inserts and daily newspapers -- used CreoScitex prepress equipment in the production cycle to achieve superior levels of quality, turnaround time and reliability that has never been seen before. Every morning during the games, an eight-page tabloid newspaper was delivered to every resident of the Olympic athletes' village. A 32-page book containing the daily program was also produced each night. CreoScitex systems were part of the production that began the night before. After judo finished at 10:30 pm, the daily Olympic results and upcoming events information were delivered to Offset Alpine Printing of Sydney. At 11:00 pm, all the data was sent to CreoScitex Prinergy(tm) workflow management. Within the hour, two CreoScitex Platesetter(tm) 3244s and a CreoScitex Trendsetter(tm) 5067V were making plates. The job was printed and delivered to the Olympic Village by 3:30 am. This quick turnaround was not possible in the 1996 Atlanta games. "We would not have taken this contract unless we were certain that the CreoScitex equipment would deliver the quality and reliability to produce this job from start to finish in four hours," says Michael Kinninmont, General Manager of Offset Alpine Printing. "The system performed without a single glitch and the customer (the Sydney Organizing Committee of Olympic Games) is ecstatic."