"We're very excited to participate in the AFP Color Consortium to help shape the future of production color printing," says Drew Sprague, Solimar Systems President and CEO. "Solimar is proud to be part of the group and anxious to share our domain expertise, experience and knowledge to help the print industry advance forward."

By addressing the broad range of AFP workflows to include a color management architecture that will be industry-defined and fully open, the consortium is confident the goal of consistency among printing devices and software systems can be achieved. In addition to production print engines, the color output management of multiple complex functions and workflows that influence all aspects of a presentation system is targeted to include software applications, clients, servers, data stream transforms, and controllers. The consortium - formed by IBM late last year - intends to focus on developing technical specifications associated with the full spectrum of production color variable data printing.

About Solimar Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1991, Solimar Systems, Inc. is a leading developer of enterprise output management solutions for mainframe, midrange, and PC/network environments. Installed in thousands of sites around the world, including nearly 50% of the Fortune 100, Solimar solutions satisfy a wide range of customer requirements by combining document creation, integrated physical communications connectivity, data stream transforms, and sophisticated print queue management with secure document distribution. Experts in legacy and modern data streams, Solimar solutions provide essential infrastructure to organizations in a variety of industries including insurance, financial services, banking, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, healthcare, government, education, retail, manufacturing, utilities, distribution and print service bureaus.

For more information, call the Solimar Sales Team at +1.619.849.2800.