Pageflex Customer Associates Graphic Services Receives Top Honors at drupa

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pageflex®, a division of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS, www.bitstream.com) and a leading developer of enterprise variable data publishing and web-to-print solutions, announced today that Associates Graphic Services (www.agsprint.com), a print communications company in Wilmington, DE, has been selected as a first place winner of the CIP4 International Print Production Innovation Award. Each year the International Cooperation for the Integration of the Process of Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) association recognizes outstanding and pioneering digital print applications and integrations. Winners were announced yesterday during the CIPPI Awards Reception at drupa 2008 in Dusseldörf, Germany.

“I can’t tell you what an honor it is to receive this award,” states Dave Zamorski, chief operating officer of AGS. “I knew we created something incredibly efficient and customer-friendly; it’s a privilege to be recognized by the industry for this work.”

AGS was honored as the winning entry in the “Biggest Improvement in Quality Production and Customer Responsiveness as a Result of Process Automation” category for its excellence in JDF-based production automation.

At the beginning of 2007, AGS began work with one of the top ten pharmaceutical companies in the US. This application would add another 6,000+ user North American customer base to its already full line up of storefront users. This new business added an estimated 200-300 new line item orders per day. In order to meet this increased demand, AGS employs Pageflex Storefront so that each of the pharmaceutical company’s users can customize and order documents including sales literature, pads, booklets, labels and appointment cards by simply using their Web browser. From there, each order is seamlessly sent to Objective Advantage’s Symbio, which automates the prepress, printing, finishing and shipping processes. By implementing Pageflex Storefront integrated with Symbio, AGS eliminated the need to hire 10 new staff members, reduced turnaround time on new jobs for many new and previous customers and increased annual profits substantially.

“We are thrilled to see one of our customers receiving the CIPPI Award at drupa,” offered Anna Chagnon, president and CEO of Bitstream, Inc. “The large volume of work AGS completes each day for these customers demonstrates the capability of Pageflex Storefront to streamline production and create a tangible return on investment.”

CIP4 is a not-for-profit association and is registered with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as a Standards Development Organization. CIP4 is a global organization established in Switzerland with representatives in several countries. CIP4 brings together vendors, consultants and end-users in the print communications, Graphic Arts industry and associated sectors, covering a variety of equipment, software, peripherals and processes.

For more information on drupa, visit www.drupa.com. To learn more about CIP4, visit www.cip4.org.

About the Pageflex Platform

Pageflex offers unparalleled design control with powerful graphic design features created specifically for variable publishing. The platform produces rich, creative, award-winning document designs that look like they were given the individual attention of a graphic designer but were, in reality, created on-the-fly with Pageflex variable publishing technology.

About Bitstream

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and messaging software and variable data publishing and web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

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About Associates Graphic Services

Associates Graphic Services is a graphics communication company located in Wilmington, DE. Now in its 35^th year, AGS is one of the East Coast’s leading providers of digital, print and web technology solutions for graphic communicators. Services include integrated marketing campaigns, digital and commercial printing, variable data printing (VDP), web-to-print storefronts, personalized URL’s, mailing, lettershop and bindery services. For more information about AGS please visit www.agsprint.com.