Iterated Systems Announces STiNG reXpress to Speed Digital Image Production and Workflow.

ATLANTA and SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1999--

Powerful, Collaborative Software Boosts Productivity, Streamlines

Workflow, Enables Rapid Internet Distribution of Images

Iterated Systems, Inc., a leading developer of next-generation digital imaging systems, announced today the release of STiNG reXpress(tm), the first repurposing and resolution management server that provides resolution independence, making it practical to transfer print jobs electronically and repurpose images at different sizes and for different media. Designed to meet the critical demands of advertising agencies and printing for brand management, STiNG reXpress increases productivity by speeding digital image production workflows and decreasing time-to-market.

"STiNG reXpress technology helps advertising agencies and related companies retain and grow their client base," said John Bacon, president and CEO of Iterated Systems. "STiNG's patented and field-proven fractal scaling technologies, repurposing and automated quality management make STiNG reXpress a unique solution for streamlining workflow, boosting productivity and lowering costs, while facilitating the rapid Internet distribution of high-quality images for brand management."

Color Technology, Inc. (CTI), a leading print and prepress shop that handles print ads for Nike, Microsoft and Miller Brewing, is a STiNG reXpress user. "STiNG reXpress is giving Color Technology unprecedented flexibility, clarity and power in efficiently outputting a wide array of images, from postcard size images to massive billboards, with no loss of quality as the image is transferred from medium to medium," said Russ Dodd, CTI product manager. At CTI, a recent workflow was reduced from 255 minutes to 20 minutes with STiNG reXpress, in addition to a substantial increase in revenue through new image product offerings. "The dramatic cost savings and decreased time-to-market gives CTI a critically important competitive advantage in this marketplace."

Reducing Time to Market -- About STiNG reXpress

STiNG reXpress, a repurposing and resolution server product, enables designers who work with high resolution image files to work with images captured at a medium resolution. STiNG reXpress' resolution-on-demand enables rapid reuse of an image and substantially faster edits and file transfers. STiNG reXpress creates files that are scaleable and resolution independent, taking up less disk space while retaining original image quality. Entire QuarkXPress documents can be collected using STiNG reXpress and reduced to one-tenth the original size while preserving the same high quality clients demand.

STiNG's visually lossless encoding automatically grabs the most significant data, about ten percent of the original file data, to produce the same quality output, quickly transmitting it to a printer or service bureau across an intranet, extranet, or the Internet. For example, using visually lossless encoding, a 1 GB image can be reduced to about 54 MB. The transfer time over a high-speed ISDN connection is reduced from about two hours to seven minutes.

Resolution Independence -- Benefits of STiNG reXpress

STiNG reXpress offers powerful features and benefits that result in reduced time-to-market, faster file transfers and more efficient workflows at significant cost savings:

-- Faster transfers to clients or printers since images (TIFF/EPS/PSD/STN) are packaged for quick transfer. -- Minimal disk space needed since Quark/EPS documents are stored in a single, small file. -- Work faster by queuing jobs with automatic status reporting. -- Less demand on your local system because computation is performed on a server, not your desktop machine. -- Multi-tasking for high productivity using multi-threaded processing on NT systems.

Pricing and Availability

STiNG reXpress is available immediately to customers and VAR partners for distribution. Pricing packages begin at $14,950.

About Iterated Systems

Iterated Systems, Inc., Atlanta, GA, is a leading developer of powerful digital imaging technologies based on patented developments in advanced mathematics. Since 1987, Iterated's unique advances have provided graphics users with the ability to create extremely detailed, re-usable images. Now, through its Imaging Systems Architecture(tm) and STiNG, Iterated provides users in the prepress and graphic arts industries with unique, bandwidth-conserving, and often lossless imaging capabilities that improve customer satisfaction while making workflows faster and more efficient. Iterated Systems and STiNG were selected to receive a Publish magazine 1998 Impact Award, given to recognize innovations and breakthroughs in the publishing industry. For more information, contact Iterated Systems at [e-mail] or 404/264-8000.

Editor's Note: Iterated Systems will be demonstrating STiNG reXpress at booth #2528, MacWorld, San Francisco, Jan. 5-8, 1999. Further information is available at http://www.iterated.com.

Iterated Systems, STiNG and STiNG reXpress are trademarks of Iterated Systems.