Sepialine and KIP America Deliver Integrated Cost Recovery

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - December 13, 2004 -- Sepialine(TM) - the leader in Cost Recovery for service professionals - today announced a partnership with KIP America, and the immediate availability of integration software for the entire range of KIP wide format printers and scanners. The partnership and integration provide a direct connection between KIP products and Sepialine's award-winning Argos 6.0 cost recovery platform, allowing customers to capture the cost of every print, copy and scan in the office environment.

AN EMERGING TREND

Professional services firms - such as legal, architecture, advertising, and engineering firms - are the most common target disciplines for cost recovery. By capturing and analyzing expenses, companies are able to gain business insight, charge back clients for reimbursables and ultimately increase profit.

Cost Recovery is a growing family of technologies designed to capture, analyze and report business expenses, such as printing, copying, faxing and scanning. KIP integration from Sepialine extends the concept by seamlessly tracking all print, copy and scan activity on KIP printers. Wide format equipment, such as the KIP Starprint series, often accounts for a large percentage of project costs. Integrated cost recovery gives companies a way to recoup overhead expenses and assign those expenses to clients as reimbursable charges.

SEPIALINE TRACKS WIDE FORMAT WORKFLOW

With its new KIP integration product, Sepialine extends its leadership role, as cost recovery practices gain acceptance among professional services firms. "As a leading KIP dealer, we frequently field customer requests for cost accounting," said Paul Quiroga, Director of Sales for Digital Engineering Systems in Redwood City, California. "Now, we can go to our customers with Sepialine's integrated tracking and deliver a complete solution."

Sepialine software integrates with KIP wide-format printers through Argos Data Exchange (ADX) - a flexible framework developed by Sepialine for integrating with third-party printers and software. The ADX adapter for KIP works by automatically configuring KIP's Powerprint Request software, so that users are required to supply accounting information during the print submission process. ADX then aggregates all print, scan and copy statistics back into the Argos platform for later reporting.

"We're pleased to count Sepialine among our endorsed vendors for software products," said Steve Kozle, KIP Marketing Manager, Novi, Michigan. "Sepialine enhances the KIP product line by offering our customers a way to reliably, elegantly and credibly justify the cost of their KIP investment."

COMMITTED TO COST RECOVERY

The Argos Platform from Sepialine is built to address the long-standing challenge of implementing cost recovery without compromising productivity. Sepialine firsts - such as message-based routing, icon notification, global and user quotas, and snooze - all work together to make cost recovery easy and flexible for end users and administrators alike. Traditionally, cost recovery solutions interrupt users and stop vital office processes, such as printing, in order to obtain billing information. Sepialine's unique approach preserves workflow, and yet ensures that all expenses are tracked.

ABOUT SEPIALINE

Sepialine, Inc., delivers products and services to capture, analyze and report expenses across the enterprise. The award-winning Argos Cost Recovery Platform from Sepialine delivers print, copy, scan, and fax tracking for a variety of wide and small format devices. Sepialine products are used by corporate and service professionals, worldwide, including architecture, engineering, legal, and reprographics industries. For more information, visit http://www.sepialine.com.

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