printChannel.com(TM)Announces First Installations of print i/o(TM)

printChannel.com announced today that it has started early deployment to existing and new customers of print i/o, its next generation e-commerce platform. The company also said that its rollout schedule is on track for completion by July 1, 2002.

For Immediate Release            

Contacts:
Oliver Pflug                  
printChannel.com               
Tel: 415-575-3288   
oliver.pflug@printChannel.com
   
Joanne Rotondo
JVR Communications
Tel: 401-438-9620
joanne@jvrpr.com

printChannel.com (TM) Announces First Installations of print i/o (TM)

Development and Customer Testing Schedules on Track for Final Release

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 13, 2002-printChannel.com(TM), the leading vendor of Web-based print procurement solutions, announced today that it has started early deployment to existing and new customers of print i/o (TM), its next generation e-commerce platform. The company also said that its rollout schedule is on track for completion by July 1, 2002.

"Our move to a simplified development environment that leverages Java and Oracle is showing results," states Oliver Pflug, CEO of printChannel.com. "print i/o leverages the best of both worlds: the robustness of the tried and proven printChannel system architecture, which has been deployed at over 1,000 print buying organizations worldwide, and the efficiencies of a standards-based development environment. And, even though our backlog of customers signing up for print i/o is growing, we will not rush the system to market. It is very important to get customer feedback in this phase to ensure that print i/o is production-ready upon final release," Pflug added.

About printChannel.com
printChannel.com does not broker printing and has a policy of not selling to end-user corporations directly. printChannel is a scalable, user configurable online print procurement solution that lets print vendors offer to corporate customers a wide range of procurement services for variable data, catalog and first-time print over the Internet . It is the leading vendor of Web-based print procurement solutions provider to manufacturers, distributors, and brokers of commercial print. printChannel.com was founded in March 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in the US and Europe. The printChannel system is currently in place in over 150 commercial printing organizations globally. printChannel.com customers have over 1,000 corporate production implementations live.

For more information about printChannel.com and its online print processing solution, contact printChannel.com, 1069 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Telephone: 415.575.3266. Fax: 415-575-3293. e-mail: info@printchannel.com. Web site: http://www.printChannel.com.

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