FotoWire Celebrates 1st Anniversary of U.S. Rollout Of its Online Photofinishing Network of Internet Photo Labs; More than Two Dozen Labs Now Serve Domestic Online Market.

Business Editors

Spring Internet World 2000

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000

FotoWire(R) Inc., the pioneer and global market leader in online photofinishing, today announced that more than two dozen retail and virtual photofinishing labs around the country have joined its network over the last year, the company's first full year in the U.S. market.

"Over the past year, FotoWire has gone from two or three labs processing digital prints to more than two dozen. In fact, half of all online photofinishing labs in the U.S. today belong to the FotoWire network," said Patrick Serex, CEO of the four-year-old, business-to-business, Internet infrastructure provider. "We have seen our print volume increase 987 percent, nearly 1000 percent, over the same period with 40 percent of our overall printing volume coming from the United States."

At the same time, FotoWire increased its European presence by more than 400 percent, now with more than 65 independent, retail and wholesale production labs coming soon or currently online with FotoWire.

FotoWire distinguishes between labs and points of service. FotoWire counts each corporate lab as a single entity, however, many labs have more than one point of printing. For example, PhotoCare in Denmark has 60 stores, Groupe Photo Service in France (one of the largest European minilab group) has 250 stores, while Linkopia AB of Sweden has more than 1,000 points of sale.

Other highlights for the year include:

--  Winning a finalist award for Excellence In Imaging from Popular
    Science/Digital Focus;

--  Winning the endorsement of IPI, the largest association of
    independent photo labs and other imagers;

--  Developing acceptance of the market for digital images printed
    onto silver halide as dramatically evidenced by new entrants, such
    as Shutterfly and oFoto;

--  Development and implementation of FotoWire WebPrint complete
    solution for photo-sharing sites and companies that want to add
    Web-based printing capabilities to their other services;

--  Signing of the first U.S. based all-Internet photofinishing lab
    EZPrints.Com as FotoWire's largest online-only lab member;

--  Acceptance by minilab and regional retail photolabs, such as
    PhotoTime, one of the San Francisco Bay area's largest volume
    photofinishers; and,

--  In an extension to its previous relationship with AGFA, FotoWire
    lab services now are shipped pre-installed on all new AGFA digital
    printing units and minilabs.

FotoWire will be demonstrating its technology exclusively for press and analysts at ImageScape at Internet World on Thursday morning, April 6, at 8 a.m. at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Los Angeles. Interested press should contact Matt O'Keffe of InfoTrends at Tel. [phone], ext. 15, or visit their Website at http://www.infotrends-rgi.com.

About FotoWire

With more than 75 member labs online in 18 countries, FotoWire is both the pioneer and world market leader on online photofinishing. Founded in 1996 and based in Menlo Park, Calif., FotoWire Inc., provides Internet e-photofinishers, wholesale photofinishers and minilab operators (as well as photo retailers) with specific, award-winning, patent-pending solutions for digital image processing that closely matches their existing commercial and production processes. Privately held, FotoWire's investors include Agfa, Venture Partners, ICE Enterprises, Logitech and others. FotoWire on web is located at http://www.fotowire.com.

NOTE: FotoWire is a registered trademark (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) of FotoWire.Com S.A. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.