InfoPrint Solutions Company expands office printer portfolio with three new InfoPrint Express printers

Affordable Laser Printers for Small Businesses and Workgroups

Boulder, CO - January 30, 2007

InfoPrint Solutions Company today announced three new office printers designed to meet diverse general office and branch office printing needs, with an emphasis on value, affordability and ease of implementation. The InfoPrint 1601 and 1602 Express and InfoPrint Color 1614 Express are the latest additions to InfoPrint Solutions Company's growing portfolio of office printers.

The InfoPrint Express portfolio is specifically designed to help small and medium businesses keep their total cost of ownership low. These new models are designed to enable small businesses and workgroups to reduce their output costs with high-impact, affordable printing. As office printing needs change and grow, InfoPrint Solutions Company printers continue to meet client demands for higher throughput, reduced ownership costs and improved print quality.

The InfoPrint® 1601 and 1602 Express are low-cost, monochrome laser printers that print up to 28 pages per minute A4 (ppm)¹ with a first page-out-time as fast as 7.5 seconds¹. The 366 MHz processor handles complicated jobs efficiently for increased employee productivity. The "eco-mode" setting offers power-saving LED options along with a host of other settings to encourage energy conservation and reduced costs.

The InfoPrint 1602 Express offers all of the features of the 1601 Express and adds Ethernet and optional wireless Ethernet capability. Networking functions are designed to simplify installation and relocation by reducing cabling requirements. Wireless networking gives small businesses and workgroups significant flexibility to enhance employee productivity, enabling the InfoPrint 1602 Express to be installed in any location covered by a wireless network.

The InfoPrint Color 1614 Express provides high-impact, affordable color printing with a low cost of acquisition. With print times of up to 20 pages per minute ppm¹ A4 for color and 22 ppm¹ A4 for monochrome and a 375 MHz processor, the InfoPrint Color 1614 Express helps growing businesses quickly produce high-quality color and monochrome documents. The intuitive operator panel with its "show me" and "tell me more" display features, standard duplex, and a 65,000 page maximum monthly print volume² are designed to increase user productivity while decreasing user interventions.

Many businesses discover that the purchase of personal inkjet printers and supplies may not be visible in the budgeting process. With its low cost of acquisition and Color Care technology to help control color costs, the InfoPrint Color 1614 Express offers a sound alternative to inkjet printing. The Color Care features let businesses assign color print permissions by end user, install mono-only drivers or set times during the day when the printer operates in a black-only mode. The cost of each print job can also be reduced by using the printer's toner saver settings, color saver feature or the proof-then-print capability.

Part of InfoPrint Solutions Company Express Advantage

The three printers announced today are part of InfoPrint Solutions Company's Express Advantage offerings, which include hardware, software, services and financing offerings specifically developed for mid-sized businesses. The Express Advantage initiative combines these offerings with InfoPrint Solutions Partner resources available via PartnerWorld Express Advantage to help ensure that mid-sized businesses have end-to-end coverage to resolve their business challenges, and help them to innovate and grow.

Pricing & Availability

The InfoPrint 1601 and 1602 Express and InfoPrint 1614 Color Express devices are planned to be available February 23 in most countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. For pricing information, please check with authorized InfoPrint Solutions Company InfoPrint Solutions Partner³.

InfoPrint Solutions Company

InfoPrint Solutions Company, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, brings to market the advantages IBM and Ricoh have in the development, manufacturing, marketing and building of strategic solutions for customers, creating a growth-oriented global enterprise that is strategically focused on the output market.

The InfoPrint Solutions Company portfolio includes solutions for production printing for enterprises and commercial printers as well as solutions for office workgroup environments and industrial segments. The company offers customers the highest quality output solutions that optimize productivity by providing efficient workflow and, at the same time, delivering low cost of ownership and high return on investment. The heritage of InfoPrint Solutions Company includes the development of the IBM Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Architecture – now an industry standard – and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS), which has since become the standard for mission critical business printing. The company also leads the industry in print management solutions with both InfoPrint Process Director and InfoPrint Manager. Please visit www.infoprint.com for more information.

Media and Industry Analyst Contacts

Breakaway Communications for InfoPrint Solutions Company

Gemma Craven
gcraven@breakawaycom.com
212-616-6005

Tracey Sheehy
tsheehy@breakawaycom.com
212-616-6003

1. Exact speed varies depending on document complexity, system configuration, software application, driver and printer state.
2. InfoPrint Solutions Company does not recommend printing this monthly maximum on a consistent basis.
3. Reseller prices may vary.