EskoArtwork is proud to announce that EskoArtwork Neo is the recipient of a 2008 Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) InterTech Technology Award.

This is the third year in a row that EskoArtwork products have been recognized: last year Esko DeskPack 3-dX received an InterTech Award, while in 2006 Esko WebCenter received a similar distinction. PIA/GATF sponsors the InterTech Technology Awards as a service to the industry in order to spotlight the wide range of technologies that contribute to the advancement of techniques and processes used in the graphic arts.

InterTech Award judges felt that this year’s entries represented some truly innovative and unique technologies that will have an impact on graphic arts and related industries. The judges appreciated the application for EskoArtwork Neo, saying “This provides an unprecedented level of stand-alone PDF editing and eliminates any downside of PDF. The ability to edit virtually anything, including fonts, without going back to the original document is outstanding.”

“We regard it an extreme honor that EskoArtwork products have received PIA/GATF InterTech Technology Awards in three successive years,” remarks Carsten Knudsen, EskoArtwork President and CEO. We are very pleased that PIA/GATF’s panel of independent judges has acknowledged the impact of an effective and easy-to-use PDF editor to the productivity of a printer’s operations. And, as a company that has renewed focus on commercial printing along with our legacy in packaging, we feel that with products such as Neo, Plate Cell Patterning and Certified PDF Technology - past Intertech Award recipients - along with Nexus, Odystar, the complete Enfocus portfolio, and other technologies, we provide effective prepress tools for commercial printing. We look forward to demonstrating all of these solutions at Graph Expo.”