Cadmus offers digital solutions; Will launch new Internet journal publishing service AtHOME@CADMUS.

RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 1995--North America's largest producer of leading scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, Cadmus Journal Services (CJS) is introducing Cadmus Digital Solutions (CDS) to help publishers take advantage of new digital information technologies like CD-ROM and the Internet.

Cadmus also announced plans for a July 1 launch of AtHOME@CADMUS, a collaborative space on the World Wide Web, where state-of-the-art research publications and databases will be linked to quickly and conveniently meet the growing interactive and communications needs of scientists, teachers, librarians, scholars, researchers, clinicians, engineers and doctors.

"With CDS, we are developing an unparalleled ability to flow text and graphics seamlessly from composition and print production to digital services and products simultaneously, or in advance of formal publication dates. Equally important, the establishment of CDS will ensure that publishers partner with a proven organization that can provide the necessary resources, services, and know-how to strategically leverage both content and market position in the new world of digital publishing," says C. Stephenson Gillispie, Jr., president and CEO, Cadmus Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: CDMS), parent company of both CDS and CJS.

CDS, under the leadership of President Frederick Bowes, III, the pioneering former publisher of The New England Journal of Medicine and president and CEO of Macmillan New Media, will offer distinctive and cost effective Internet publishing and content management services along with new media products to over 400 highly specialized journals already produced by Cadmus.

According to Bowes, "The addition of CDS to the Cadmus family creates a uniquely integrated infrastructure offering cohesive, timely and economical digital publishing resources to manage content and generate new products from a common source."

The Cutting Edge, a fast track section of the Journal of Immunology created by its editor Dr. Peter Lipsky which includes table of contents, abstracts and complete articles, will be the first creative use of AtHOME@CADMUS by a journal publisher. Lipsky's goal is to have The Cutting Edge available on AtHOME@CADMUS less than 10 weeks from receipt of the printed manuscript. A preview of AtHOME@CADMUS is planned for the Society of Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting from May 17 - 19 at The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Cambridge, Mass.

Headquartered in Richmond, Va., Cadmus Communications Corp. is a graphic communication company specializing in printing, marketing and publishing.

A list of services that will be available to CDS customers follows:

                     CDS Services and Products

INTERNET PUBLISHING
O   Services
    o  Creating and managing customer spaces on the Internet
       (including WWW and Gopher sites)
    o  Creating and managing collaborative spaces on the Internet
       where professional societies and vendors operate within
       their own virtual village, AtHOME@CADMUS
    o  Hosting reference databases and links for exclusive use by
       customer applications
    o  Operating a server with marketing services for wider
       audiences
O   Content Opportunities
    o  Publication Contents (table of contents, abstracts, articles
       and images)
    o  Publication Information (editorial board profiles,
       subscription ordering and information for authors)
    o  Organization Information (membership information, policies,
       meetings and directories)
    o  Advertising and Merchandising (sponsorships, online
       catalogues and product literature)

NEW MEDIA
CDS will produce new media products on a contract or co-publishing
basis:

O   Archive Products
    o  Compilations of previously published materials, from simple
       transcription to value-added versions, single publisher and
       collaborative products
O   Current Publications
    o  New media versions of concurrently published print titles
    o  New media companions to print products
    o  New media titles with no print counterpart (new and/or
       replacement)
O   Multimedia Monographs
    o  Topical compendia containing a wealth of material including
       text, illustrations, data and multimedia elements, e.g., video,
       audio, animation
    o  Potential for sales of regular upgrades or "annuals"

O   Meetings Products
       Material presented at scientific meetings (e.g., poster
       sessions, proceedings, videos from presentations, exhibitor
       materials).
       Potential for sponsored projects.

O   Membership Products
       Compendia of information for members of societies and
       associations.
       Member directory, position papers, rules, by-laws, society
       publications and information on meetings.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT
    CJS/CDS will help clients organize and enrich content assets for
easy retrieval and cost-effective reuse.  Clients with content
already in CJS' composition process will save time and money.

Services include:

o   SGML coding for permanent inventorying of text
o   Archiving and creating a library of graphics in TIFF or EPS
o   Archiving of integrated text and graphics for PostScript pages
o   Conversion of PostScript pages to Acrobat PDF files
o   HTML coding for Internet publication
o   Embedding "hypertext" links both within documents and to
    external information sources
o   Adding supplementary text and graphic material traditionally
    left out of print products for reasons of quantity, quality, etc.
o   Adding multimedia elements such as video, animation and audio
    (e.g., heart sounds for an article on arrhythmia)
o   Managing a publisher's "content warehouse"

For more information call 1-800-448-1CDS, e-mail CDS for CD-ROM information at [e-mail], or for Internet information at [e-mail].

CONTACT: Bishoff Solomon Communications

Naomi Roth, 617/782-0207