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Cardiff Software LiquidPDF Solution Selected for Kinkos DocStore

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- Content and Delivery Software Assists Kinko's with Online Document Solution for Business Customers - SAN DIEGO, May 2 -- Cardiff Software Inc., a leading global provider of business process-automation solutions, today announced that Kinko's, Inc., the world's leading provider of document solutions and business services, has chosen Cardiff's LiquidPDF(TM) solution (formerly known as AudienceOne) to assist its latest online Kinko's DocStore service in the capturing and delivering of online content. Kinko's DocStore is a customizable online document catalog that gives companies control of their printing needs, including control of their brand and control over time-to-market. The service offers 24/7 online access to up- to-date and frequently needed business documents, such as training manuals, sales collateral and marketing brochures. "Cardiff's LiquidPDF was chosen to support the custom document functions within Kinko's DocStore," said Richard Maranville, Kinko's vice president of online strategic development. "We selected LiquidPDF for its open architecture and its ability to easily integrate with our existing Web infrastructure." LiquidPDF utilizes existing content and enables delivery of personalized documents via the Web, e-mail and hard copy. White papers, marketing collateral and support documents can be re-purposed to meet the needs of a specific customer. LiquidPDF also adds variable text and graphics to cover letters, data sheets and posters for one-to-one marketing tools and reduces the costs associated with creating, printing, storing and mailing business documents. LiquidPDF lets organizations invest in a single eTransaction solution that can leverage existing and future assets with support for XML, HTML and PDF. LiquidPDF is built on native PDF architecture enabling the creation of custom online documents from an existing document library. Kinko's DocStore frees customers from costly preprinted inventories as well as expenses associated with warehousing, obsolescence and wasted documents. The Kinko's DocStore suite of services includes: - Online Document Catalog -- 24-hour online access to ordering, tracking and customization of documents from the catalog. Customers decide which documents to include. Kinko's maintains the catalog and prints all documents at customer-designated branches selected from Kinko's more than 1,000 U.S. locations. - Send and Print -- Allows any authorized user to upload a document from his or her computer and send it to any Kinko's location for printing. - Business Stationery -- Provides an online resource to order personalized corporate business cards, letterhead, envelopes, note cards and more.