Creo and Harland Simon to Develop Efficient Newspaper Production Solution June 2003

NEXPO, Las Vegas, NV -- (June 16, 2003) – Creo Inc. (NASDAQ: CREO; TSX: CRE) is pleased to announce that the Creo newspaper prepress solution group is working with Harland Simon, the UK manufacturer of newspaper press controls. Harland Simon has expertise in press management and production workflows and develops automation and production management software for the printing industry.

Harland Simon will develop press control interfaces that communicate with Prinergy® Newsrun software, the Creo application for newspaper edition planning. The integration allows ink key settings to be communicated to the press control system, which sets the ink keys on the press. The benefits of this integration include reduced paper and ink waste.

John Staiano, Peter Cox and Jon Bracken

"We're very happy to be working with a leading company that will deliver tremendous efficiency benefits to our customers," says Jon Bracken, Creo product manager. Harland Simon will enhance the automation of creating a newspaper edition in Prinergy Newsrun. Integrating the Harland Simon solution will enable Creo Prinergy Newsrun users to reduce make-ready time by using accurate ink key settings.

“This is our first partnership with a prepress company and we’re looking forward to enhancing an already excellent solution with Creo,” says Harland Simons' spokesperson.

The Creo Prinergy Newsrun application has been designed for the unique needs of newspapers. It imposes broadsheet pages for single- and double-width presses, and tabloid pages into pairs or quads, adding all required crop marks, page numbers, barcodes, folios and other plate furniture in an automated process that passes the imposed Job Tickets and Advanced Production Automation (APA) files to the workflow system. The edition planning and scheduling features of Prinergy Newsrun monitor the pages as they are input and output, and manage multiple publications or editions simultaneously.

The Creo digital prepress solution for newspapers is designed to increase efficiency, improve quality and dramatically reduce costs. The solution comprises the Trendsetter® NEWS computer-to-plate platesetter, the Prinergy® workflow management system, and the Prinergy Newsrun application. See the Creo newspaper solution in booth #1237 from June 16-19 at NEXPO 2003. Harland Simon is also at NEXPO on booth #405.

About Creo

Creo is a world leader in solutions for the graphic arts industry. Core product lines include image capture systems; inkjet proofers; thermal imaging devices for films, plates and proofs; professional color and copydot scanning systems; and workflow management software. Creo is also an Original Equipment Manufacture supplier of on-press imaging technology, components for digital presses, and color servers for high-speed, print-on-demand digital printers. Creo trades under the symbols CREO on NASDAQ and CRE on the Toronto Stock Exchange. www.creo.com

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