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Quick History Impact. CAD: • Started in 1988 by Arden Software, software company no hardware. • Employees <200 Artios. CAD: • Artios. CAD has been evolving since 1978, Esko. Artwork offers software & hardware • Employees 750

Purpose • This is not about whether Art. Lam should or • • • shouldn’t, but it is about the company as a whole should do. As a whole, we combine resources & share resources that’s our leverage. When we are on different platforms, software, equipment, etc… we loose leverage Combined we drive down the cost of ownership.

Areas of Growth & Potential What area has each of these companies experienced growth in? • • Bindagraphics Quality Information Packaging Colad Art Laminating & Finishing

What Software is being used? • 80 to 90% of packaging design begins with Adobe Creative Suite —primarily Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

Universal File Format • PDF has been called the Holy Grail of graphic arts — a universal file format that delivers output that is the same no matter what platform • Arden’s research led them to the Adobe PDF Library, available from Datalogics. Arden is using a third party to integrate into a PDF. (11/2007)

Tight Intergration • In 2002, Esko embarked on an ambitious • • market research study to discover trends and unmet needs in the packaging preproduction industry. Esko decided to begin offering its proprietary packaging technology not as separate software, but as modules that overlay Adobe Creative Suite design tools. Artios. CAD works seamlessly with Adobe Illustrator®

Workflows • Formed in June 2002, the GWG (Ghent PDF Workgroup) is an international assembly of industry associations and suppliers from across Europe and the U. S. Its objective is to establish and disseminate process specifications for best practices in graphic arts workflows. Members include: Adobe, Agfa, Esko. Artwork, and Heidelberg among others but no Arden Software, nor Datalogics.