InfoPrint Expands Solution Capabilities With New Strategic Partners

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Mar 30 (MARKET WIRE) --
InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, today
announced the addition of key solutions from strategic partners including
DocPath, GMC Software Technology and Crawford to enable its customers to
future-proof infrastructure and implement the latest technology to drive
revenue. These most recent partners are focusing efforts around
TransPromo, Print On Demand (POD), Print Productivity solutions and
Automated Document Factory (ADF).

"Integrating the latest software products from key partners is pertinent
to our strategy of bringing the best solutions to market, to meet current
business demand and ensure customers remain competitive," said Enrico
Parodi, Vice President WW Software & Services. "'Solutions' is our middle
name and through established strategic partnerships such as these, we
continue to help our customers steer through a tough market and benefit
from next generation innovation."

GMC's award-winning PrintNet

The latest solutions InfoPrint is integrating into its portfolio include
strategic partner GMC's PrintNet Communications Suite, which enables
marketers to target their customers with color personalized advertising on
transactional documents, known as TransPromo. This technique enables a
brand to boost visibility by adding customized messaging to documents such
as receipts and statements.

The GMC PrintNet platform is designed to save operator time and maintains
continuity across all design and production functions. It integrates
easily with other software and infrastructure simplifying the training,
maintenance, service and integration of applications as well as
personalization of content. The offering addresses critical functional
requirements in high-end TransPromo, enterprise and commercial print for
large direct mailers and enterprises.

InfoPrint, GMC and Best Western International, the world's leading hotel
chain, recently won Xplor International's "Technology Application of the
Year" award. This was for a TransPromo pilot carried out at the hotel
group, using technology from InfoPrint and GMC.

DocPath for improved compliance and reduced costs

InfoPrint strategic partner DocPath's family of web-based document design
and production products is designed to reduce the costs of business
communications, while addressing process and compliance requirements.
DocPath's solutions are principally aimed at the small to medium business
(SMB) and mid-market space, as well as helping partners increase revenues
and customer retention rates using TransPromo.

"DocPath, IBM, and now InfoPrint Solutions Company have a long history of
collaboration in addressing the critical issues in communications of
businesses large and small. We look forward to building on that
experience," said Julio Olivares, CEO at DocPath.

The DocPath software portfolio includes a variety of products that enable
enterprises to tailor infrastructure including integrated document
generation and distribution systems for networks of external agents;
remote office printing functionality, high volume document processing and
a range of suites which offer more distribution options and greater
input/output flexibility.

Crawford Technologies datastream transformations

InfoPrint is also announcing a strategic partnership with Crawford
Technologies, extending InfoPrint's industry-leading transform
capabilities to an even broader set of datastreams.

By integrating CrawfordTech's transforms, InfoPrint now offers robust
support for non-AFP data streams, thereby enabling the use of InfoPrint
ProcessDirector's automated workflow capabilities for many different
applications and output devices. These types of workflow implementations
can be done without application changes while preserving input document
fidelity.

"We are pleased to be partnering with InfoPrint Solutions to help their
customers extend the value of their existing applications by bringing
increased flexibility and efficiency to their production operations while
maximizing the latest technology developments," said Stuart Warner, VP
Marketing and Sales at CrawfordTech.

About InfoPrint Solutions Company

InfoPrint Solutions Company, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, is a
joint venture between IBM and Ricoh built on IBM's nearly 50 years in the
production print space and Ricoh's excellence in technology innovation.
Together, the two companies are bringing to market a portfolio that
includes solutions for production printing for enterprises and commercial
printers, as well as office workgroup environments and industrial
segments.

Operating in 36 countries worldwide, InfoPrint holds more than 200
technology patents in the printing and output related industry including
the invention of the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Architecture,
which is a de-facto industry standard for production printing
environments. In 2010, InfoPrint will become a fully owned subsidiary of
The Ricoh Company, joining an extensive portfolio of innovative
technology brands in the Ricoh family. Ricoh Company Ltd. is 72-year-old
leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with
fiscal year 2007 sales in excess of $22 billion, a 7.3 percent increase
over the previous year.

Visit www.infoprint.com for more information.

GMC Software Technology

GMC Software Technology helps businesses implement high impact,
personalized communications programs that increase customer satisfaction
and loyalty, drive new customer acquisition, improve productivity and cut
costs. Its award-winning PrintNet software is an easy to implement,
end-to-end solution that provides full data integration and processing,
design and composition, collaboration and approval, distributed output
management and process automation for highly targeted print and electronic
communications. GMC offers exceptionally reliable technologies and
services based on worldwide ISO 9001:2000 certification and CMMI
development methodology. It serves thousands of users worldwide, many
customers are producing in excess of 100 million personalized documents
per month -- including direct mail, statements, bills, policies, catalogs,
correspondence and TransPromo materials.

For more information visit www.gmc.net

About DocPath

DocPath is an international document technology software company. Founded
in 1992 in Madrid (Spain), the company's long list of international
clients ranges from the largest banking and insurance enterprises to a
wide spectrum of small and medium businesses. These disparate companies
have all seen how DocPath software can simplify the crucial tasks of
designing, generating and distributing their business-critical documents.
DocPath reinvests half of its revenue on R&D.

For more information visit www.docpath.com

About Crawford

Since 1995, Crawford Technologies' award-winning solutions have helped
over 500 companies around the world reduce costs associated with
communications processes by delivering mission-critical transactional
communications to their customers in the format they need, when they need
it. With CrawfordTech's range of unique software products and services,
our clients simplify, automate and extend document delivery cost
effectively -- irrespective of current, legacy or future standards in
infrastructure or document output. CrawfordTech's quality software,
expert support and print business knowledge help clients to meet
operational, service, marketing, legal and standards requirements and
automate the delivery of billions of communications to their customers
annually.

For more information, visit www.crawfordtech.com

For media inquiries, please contact:

Gemma Craven
Breakaway Communications for InfoPrint Solutions Company
Email Contact
Tel: 212-616-6005 / 917-576-6316

Stuart Warner
VP, Marketing & Sales, Crawford Technologies Inc.
Email Contact
Tel: 416-410-1233

Julio A. Olivares
President & CEO, DocPath
Email Contact
Tel:+34 918 035 000

Bill Parker
Chief Marketing Officer, GMC Software AG
Email Contact
Tel: +44 7768 272792

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