New Lexmark software automatically customizes output without application changes.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

LEXINGTON, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2000

-- Lexmark Optra Forms Director helps customize and distribute

batch print jobs without legacy application changes --

Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) today introduced new software that allows print jobs from business critical systems to be customized and distributed to network printers or multifunction printers automatically without making any changes to the customers' legacy applications.

"Optra Forms Director helps mainframe, AS/400 and UNIX customers make the transition to distributed network printing and gives them enhanced output options," said Paul Rooke, Lexmark corporate vice president and president, Business Printer Division. "This software makes it faster and easier for customers to handle complex batch print jobs and significantly reduces the costs associated with the distribution of information to end users from these systems."

Lexmark's Optra Forms Director is a Windows NT or 2000 server-based program that helps customize batch print jobs, such as paychecks, bank statements or invoices. The software automatically parses print spool files received from a host into a single job or many print jobs using Microsoft Visual Basic Script or JScript methods. These scripts insert instructions into the print data stream before the jobs are printed, enabling them to be automatically sorted, stapled, separated using a cover page, copied, collated, printed on both sides, offset stacked, faxed, or hole punched. Then, these individual print jobs can be printed to one or many Lexmark Optra laser printers or OptraImage multifunction printers located closer to users throughout an organization.

For example, a company with several office locations in different states could use Lexmark's Optra Forms Director to route its multi-page benefits statements electronically to specific printers located in several offices and then automatically direct the printers to collate and staple each statement. Without Lexmark's software, these statements might be printed at one central location, stapled and collated and then shipped via overnight courier to the other office locations, adding considerable time and expense to the process.

Availability

Lexmark's Optra Forms Director software is available immediately in the U.S. for $789(a). It will be available worldwide on Jan. 8, 2001. This new software is available from authorized Lexmark resellers and partners or from the Lexmark Web site at www.lexmark.com.

About Lexmark

Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) is a leading, global developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing solutions, including laser and inkjet printers and associated supplies for offices and homes. Founded in 1991, Lexmark employs more than 11,000 people worldwide and markets its products and services in over 150 countries. Lexmark reported approximately $3.5 billion of revenue in 1999 and can be found on the Internet at www.lexmark.com.

(a) Street prices are estimates; actual prices may vary.

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