Press Release
 Crawford Technologies Inc.
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Crawford Technologies Inc. Announces a Solution to Help Mailers Implement the USPS Intelligent Mail® Barcode
Toronto, Ontario, March 16, 2007. Crawford
Technologies Inc. today announced it has launched new capabilities
to enable mailers to quickly and cost-effectively implement the new
USPS Intelligent Mail® barcode (formerly known as
the 4-State barcode or OneCode barcode) in order to retain their
eligibility for postage discounts beyond the year 2008 and to take
advantage of the new USPS OneCode services enabled by it.
In 2006, USPS introduced the Intelligent Mail®
barcode to replace the older POSTNET® and
PLANET™ codes. At the end of 2008 the POSTNET®
and PLANET™ codes will cease to command postage discounts and
services. All mailers will need to convert their applications by
then in order to maximize postal discounts in America.
If large mailers have to modify their application programs to
make the changeover, meeting the above deadline will be an
expensive and daunting task. Using CrawfordTech's document
re-engineering tool,
PRO Document Enhancer, enables mailers to make this change in a
shorter time frame with little or no use of costly and scarce
application development resources.
PRO Document Enhancer allows users to remove existing
POSTNET® and/or PLANET™ barcodes and replace
them with the new Intelligent Mail® barcode, without
the need to know any of the print stream technical constructs,
regardless of whether the print stream is AFP, Xerox LCDS or
Metacode, PostScript, PCL or PDF. This solution is available on all
major platforms, including Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and
z/OS.
Users can also apply the PRO Document Enhancer to achieve other
significant benefits, including greater postage savings by
increasing the volume density through co-mingling different
applications. Adding automated inserter codes, such as 2D barcodes
and OMR marks, increases mail processing productivity, while adding
human readable marks, unique mail piece IDs and automated
re-printing of damaged documents increases mail processing
integrity. To learn more, see Implementing the
Intelligent Mail® Barcode.
"We are very pleased to offer organizations needing to comply
with the challenging requirements of the Intelligent
Mail® barcode a cost effective solution that
manipulates the documents without opening the source code and
allows the users with minimal understanding of the processed print
stream languages to make all changes needed." said Ernie Crawford,
President of Crawford Technologies Inc., adding "Even organizations
that have already started on this project and are reprogramming
their mail print applications or plan to, might well wish to talk
to us. We can save them considerable amounts of money and time and
help them to release their programmers for revenue creating
projects".
About Crawford Technologies Inc. Crawford Technologies
(CrawfordTech) provides print stream transform, extraction and
manipulation solutions that are unsurpassed in the industry. With
its committed and knowledgeable product teams, CrawfordTech offers
unparalleled development, design and support. CrawfordTech is a
global leader in delivering advanced print production
transformation products for the service bureau, financial,
insurance, medical, government and telecommunications industries.
Many of today's strategic companies in the document solutions
business are CrawfordTech's partners who participate in the
distribution of the industry leading PRO Suite of conversion and
enhancement products automating the transformation of print-stream,
data manipulation and document output. Crawford Technologies Inc.
is based in Canada. Its Toronto and Vancouver development centers
produce high-quality, cross-platform products using advanced
development and testing techniques.
Come visit us at www.crawfordtech.com, to see what it is that we can do for you.
For further information, or to arrange for
interviews, please contact:
Crawford Technologies, Inc.
Ernie Crawford,
President, 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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