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Crawford Technologies Launches PRO Concatenator Version 3.2


TORONTO, Ontario, November 26, 2007. Crawford Technologies Inc. (CrawfordTech) today announced the launch of PRO Concatenator Version 3.2, which is a software product that automates the aggregation of multiple print files to allow organizations to achieve economies of scale in their printing and document management processes.

With the explosion of distributed, web-based and departmental applications that generate individual documents, many organizations are faced with the challenges of optimizing the printing and management of these documents on equipment that is geared to handling large files containing many transactional documents. PRO Concatenator meets these needs by intelligently combining the disparate print files into large collections that can be printed on high volume printers and inserted on high speed mail insertion equipment automating many manual processes and improving the utilization of these high cost fixed assets.

PRO Concatenator automates the intelligent consolidation of print files from many sources. PRO Concatenator can support large numbers of like format files in popular print formats including PDF, PCL, PDF/A, AFP, Xerox Metacode/LCDS, and TIFF. Users can specify which pages are to be pulled from each input file and the sequence they should be placed in the output file. This allows PRO Concatenator to be used for many applications within an organization. For example, it can be used in conjunction with postal automation software to help reduce mailing costs. In addition, the output files can be optimized by the automatic removal of duplicate resources, providing further efficiencies and cost savings.

PRO Concatenator's support for PDF file optimization can allow users who have huge archives full of large PDF files to drastically reduce the size of their archives, providing significant storage savings and fewer objects to manage.

“Our customers are achieving many cost savings and efficiency improvements with PRO Concatenator,” said Ernie Crawford, President of Crawford Technologies Inc., adding “Its unique ability to streamline PDF files for high volume printing is giving it a special place in the TransPromo market”.

Without incurring the expense of changing the application programs that create the documents, PRO Concatenator provides customers with a wide range of benefits including improved print efficiency, decreased postage costs, substantially improved production workflow, better printing services consolidation, substantial storage cost savings, better load balancing and it gives organizations production audit capability for critical non-production documents.

PRO Concatenator can also be configured to work inline with the PRO Document Enhancer and the PRO Transform Suite allowing print format conversions and substantial value-added enhancements to be performed on the input files in a single pass process.

PRO Concatenator is available on most major computing platforms including Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX.

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 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.

CrawfordTech's deep understanding of not only the technologies surrounding mission-critical document processing, but also the strategic and business implications of information management help customers transform legacy print applications into new and future architectures and integrate them into advanced document processing and content management systems. 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.

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.
Ernie Crawford
Crawford Technologies Inc.
Tel: 1-866-679-0864
Email: ernie@crawfordtech.com

or

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

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