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Crawford Technologies Announces the Electronic Envelope™
Allows Transpromo producers to both electronically duplicate the hardcopy experience and to add enhancements exclusive to electronic delivery, producing improved, greener customer communications with cost savings


Toronto and London, 29 July 2008. Crawford Technologies Inc., the award-winning provider of Transpromo and transactional document solutions, today announced the availability of the Electronic Envelope™, for the first time allowing Transpromo/transaction producers to not only duplicate in their electronic deliveries the contents of the mailed envelope the end user tears open but also to go beyond the hardcopy with exclusive marketing functionality only available through electronic delivery.

With the Electronic Envelope™, all the components found in the hardcopy envelope can be duplicated in the PDF displayed to customers and additional electronic-only benefits added.

The Electronic Envelope™ provides the ability to replicate the hardcopy experience:

• Duplicate the logos from pre-printed stock, in either color or black and white (B&W)
• Duplicate the Terms and Conditions pages from pre-printed stock, in either color or B&W as either a graphic or as searchable text
• Add the same inserts as were put into the hardcopy envelope utilizing the same inserter control files or barcodes
• Add additional inserts, if desired, since there are no weight or postage restrictions in a PDF

The Electronic Envelope™ also provides additional functionality to expand the marketing messages delivered to the recipient:

• Add hot links, URLs, and personalized URLs (PURLs) to selected marketing messages or other text or graphics
• Direct the recipient to individualized offering pages for each recipient
• Modify marketing messages to make them electronically-oriented instead of hardcopy-oriented
• Add navigation aids such as bookmarks to improve customer usability
• Remove hardcopy-oriented objects (such as barcodes) that are distracting or not relevant to an electronic deliverable

The Electronic Envelope™ Solution Brief provides more information on what benefits the Electronic Envelope™ delivers and details a customer case study. The Electronic Envelope™ Solution Brief can be downloaded from http://www.crawfordtech.com/Electronic_Envelope_SolutionsBrief.pdf

"One of the challenges facing Transpromo/transaction producers is ensuring the same message and branding for both hardcopy and electronic deliverables", says Ernie Crawford, President of CrawfordTech. "By offering Electronic Envelope™ capability to our customers, CrawfordTech allows them to not only provide a parallel look-and-feel between hardcopy and electronic deliverables, maintaining a consistent branding and message to their customers regardless of which media is chosen for delivery, and to also add new marketing capabilities only available in electronic delivery."

Implementing the Electronic Envelope™ allows organizations to utilize CrawfordTech's award-winning PRO Document Enhancer product family to make required changes to the transaction production jobs. The PRO Document Enhancer is a post-composition processor, so no changes are necessary in the document composition stage, whether the customer is dealing with a legacy application or a document composition engine.

"CrawfordTech sees the Electronic Envelope™ as being especially important now. A downturn in the economy and moves toward greener processes make electronic delivery that much more attractive for delivering both cost reductions and saving trees." said Stephen D. Poe, VP of Product Management for CrawfordTech. "Initially, organizations benefit from the Electronic Envelope™ by delivering parallel marketing content and branding between their hardcopy and electronic deliveries, providing their customers with a consistent experience, whether they tear open a paper envelope or open a PDF file. The additional benefits of the Electronic Envelope™ come into play when organizations take advantage of the extended functionality to enable much more sophisticated marketing messaging and marketing campaigns through greener electronic delivery."

About Crawford Technologies Inc. Founded in 1995, Crawford Technologies, Inc. (CrawfordTech) is a leader in document manipulation and re-engineering solutions, including data mining of print streams, archiving and retrieval, print stream conversion, and workflow processing. The wide range of robust and flexible CrawfordTech products allows companies to boost revenue, build efficiencies and bolster customer service. Their committed and knowledgeable technical teams provide unparalleled development, design and support, and their flexible transform technology is recognized as the fastest, most flexible and most accurate available.

Customers around the globe rely on CrawfordTech to enable mission-critical document strategies that result in tactical savings and efficiencies as well as strategic improvements in revenue generation and customer service. Their native format archive systems and transform tools work with all print stream formats and make CrawfordTech a highly sought after partner in both the OEM and user communities.

Come visit us at www.crawfordtech.com, to see what we can do for you.

For further information, or to arrange for interviews, please contact:

Crawford Technologies, Inc.
Stuart Warner,
Vice President, Marketing & Sales
Tel: +1-416-410-1233
Email: swarner@crawfordtech.com

or

Crawford Technologies, Inc.
Stewart Rogers,
General Manager - European Operations
Tel: +44 (0)20 3239 4723
Email: srogers@crawfordtech.com

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