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August 23, 1999
Eleven Technologies Honored
with the 1999 GATF InterTech Awards
July 23, 1999-- Pittsburgh, PA: The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation
(GATF) announced that eleven technologies were selected from 46 nominations
for recognition with the GATF Technology Award. Inaugurated in 1978 to
foster awareness and understanding of advanced graphic arts technology,
this award honors excellence in innovative technology for the graphic
communications industry, the nomination criteria state that the technology
be recently developed and proven in industrial application, but not yet
in widespread use. GATF sponsors the award and coordinates the awards
process but does not select recipients. InterTech Technology Award winners
are chosen by an anonymous judging committee comprised of industry experts
and users who are independent of GATF. Nominators and nominees do not
have to be members of GATF.
1999 InterTech Technology Award winners, and in parentheses the companies offering them, include:
- Agfa Apogee (Agfa-Gevaert NV)
- Samba Screening (BARCO Graphics)
- Croda Adhesives Integrated Label Technology (Croda Adhesives, Inc.)
- Grafix CoCure™ Process (Grafix North America, Inc.)
- Polar Compucut with CIP3 Workflow (Heidelberg USA)
- Sunday 4000 Press with Autoplate® (Heidelberg Web Systems)
- MarkzScout (Markzware Software, Inc.)
- LASERSTAR (Max Daetwyler Corporation)
- LightPhase (Phase One)
- Color Control System/CCS (Quad/Tech, Inc./QTI)
- MicroPress® Cluster Printing System (T/R Systems, Inc.)
