Industry Leaders Driving Open Standards for the Management and Output of Color Across Devices and Systems
TORONTO, Ontario, June 21, 2005 - Xenos Group, Inc. (TSX: XNS), the Data to e-Content Company™, today announced it has joined the AFP Color Consortium - an industry-wide effort initiated by IBM to bring reliability, data integrity, quality and consistency to high-volume color printing environments. The consortium is comprised of leading global organizations with a common goal to help define, develop and promote the Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFPT™) architecture for accurate and consistent output of color across different AFP devices.
"Xenos has been helping organizations around the world efficiently manage high-volume printstream data for over twenty years," said Graham Barker, director of d2e product management at Xenos. "We have joined other industry leaders to actively participate in defining standards for color management and integration with IBM's AFP architecture, ultimately making it easier for customers to use advanced color features in high volume electronic printing and viewing applications."
Xenos is committed to driving best practices and the intelligent evolution of data and document formats and standards. Xenos is supporting the goals of the AFP Color Consortium with its expertise in transforming and repurposing both legacy and modern print stream data for high-volume printing and online viewing.
Xenos has provided data and document management solutions for over 20 years. Its solutions are embraced worldwide, across a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, financial services and government. Xenos improves the efficiency of information and data management while preserving investments in existing IT infrastructure, systems, applications and procedures. Its solutions provide the capture, composition, transformation, enhancement, repurposing, storage, retrieval and distribution of documents across the enterprise. Xenos' data solutions are used to integrate incompatible applications, business processes, enterprise systems, partners, structured data, databases and Web services. Its product offering includes Xenos d2e, Xenos infoWEB and Xenos GoXML. Xenos has offices in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Xenos trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "XNS." For more information visit www.xenos.com.
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