Corel Honors Digital Art Solutions with 2007 Strategic Partner Award

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced it has awarded Digital Art Solutions with its 2007 Strategic Partner Award. Digital Art Solutions’ industry-leading graphics system integrates with the award-winning CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, and Wilcom® DecoStudio© e1 (a CorelDRAW product) providing specialized digital art content and software for apparel or promotional product decoration, sign making, large format printing, and engraving. The company received this honor for overall sales, and for increasing brand awareness within key industries. Corel will also begin selling Digital Art Solutions products online through the Corel eStore.

“We are excited and honored to receive Corel’s Strategic Partner award for another year, as we greatly value our partnership with a company that has established itself as one of the world’s leading graphics software providers,” said Craig Mertens, President and CEO of Digital Art Solutions. “We continue to see the value this partnership delivers to the imprinting industries, and look forward to continuing our work to provide trusted solutions to our customers.”

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite provides users with the tools, resources and confidence to tackle a wide variety of projects - from logos and Web graphics, to multipage brochures, to high impact signage and digital displays. The trusted choice of millions of professional and aspiring designers worldwide, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is available for a suggested retail price of $429 US for the full version and $199 US for the upgrade.

Wilcom DecoStudio e1 enables users to effortlessly combine embroidery and print, moving easily between vector art and embroidery elements, while keeping everything in one file for production purposes. Offering the industry’s most comprehensive solution for multi-decoration design, DecoStudio offers the ease-of-use and full creative power of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite while delivering the digitizing quality and flexibility of Wilcom ES.

“Corel is pleased to award Digital Art Solutions with the 2007 Strategic Partner Award in recognition of their continued support of our graphics products in key industries including the signmaking, advertising, and promotional products industries,” said John Riis, Senior Director, OEM Sales for Corel. “We value the strength of our partnership with Digital Art Solutions and are pleased to now offer Digital Art Solution products on the Corel eStore.”
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