Christopher Start, environmental engineer and project manager for the MMTC, and a computer graphic hobbyist, submitted the summer's winning label design to earn the cash award, and becomes eligible for the $5,000 annual grand prize to be awarded by NEATO in December, 1999.

Start created a complete CD package using NEATO CD label, jewel case booklet and tray liner products to promote the technology center's Manufacturing Efficiency Decision Support (MEDS) web site (www.meds.mmtc.org), which offers free to small manufacturers throughout the country a helpful database of technologies and other cost-effective technical procedures used in manufacturing.

Start used NEATO MediaFACE software to design the label and insert products after importing and editing images, provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Technology-Manufacturing Extension Partnership, in Adobe PhotoShop format.

"I made 400 MEDS demonstration CDs using your products," he explained, "and I thought the NEATO labeling system was fun and easy to work with. After printing the CD labels, booklets, and tray liners, the CDs look as professional as any CD I have seen."

The promotional CDs were mailed to department heads at some 78 centers of the National Institute of Standards and provided to small manufacturers that attend conferences and trade shows on industrial technology and pollution prevention.

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