Mimeo.com Selected as Partner in HP Printing E-Services Strategy

Business Wire, April 19, 2000

Business, Advertising, and High Tech Editors

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000

Relationship Further Expands Mimeo.com

Relationship With HP

Mimeo.com, the leader in quality, secure business document printing, binding and delivery through the Internet, was today unveiled as a partner in Hewlett-Packard Company's printing e-services strategy. The announcement was made at a media event hosted by HP Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina and further expands on the previously announced strategic alliance between the companies.

The Mimeo.com service is already being pre-loaded on selected PCs and notebook PCs from HP. Most recently, Mimeo.com has been featured on the HP Small Business Center site, directly accessible through www.hp.com. Mimeo.com is also being included as part of HP's Managed Print Services offering, which provides printing and imaging outsourcing services for large and enterprise customers.

"The strengthening of our relationship with HP reflects on the tremendous success of our initial alliance," said Jeff Stewart, chief executive officer of Mimeo.com. "Mimeo.com has clearly become the partner of choice for companies that want the world's most accessible, secure and reliable way to have important business documents printed, bound and delivered."

"HP's relationship with Mimeo.com was forged to expand the breadth of printing e-services available to customers," said Carolyn Ticknor, president of HP's Imaging and Printing Systems. "Mimeo.com is providing a convenient and reliable Internet-based printing and document production service at users' desktops - a perfect example of how the two companies are making the Internet work for customers."

The HP-hosted event today in San Francisco unveiled HP's printing e-services strategy, which propels the company's overall e-services strategy into the printing and imaging realm. According to HP, the printing e-services strategy will transform printers into Internet-based services by combining the power of the Internet with imaging and printing developments. Mimeo.com was featured among other new printing and imaging-focused Internet business models as well as revolutionary technologies with which HP is aligning. Other companies featured at the event included Stamps.com, Federal Express, ImageTag, NewspaperDirect and Dazel.

Mimeo.com is the only Internet-based printing service that ensures quality production and overnight delivery of business documents from a secure central production facility. HP e-services customers can select Mimeo.com from the print-option menu on their computers and instantly connect to the Mimeo.com service, through which any document can be printed and bound by Mimeo.com's production team and delivered overnight via FedEx.

About Mimeo.com

The Mimeo.com Internet-based printing service, the world's most complete and dependable way to produce important business documents and presentations, sets a new standard for the productivity of business professionals, executives and administrators by placing the highest quality available digital color and black and white document production, binding and overnight delivery via FedEx at their fingertips, from anywhere in the world. With the easy to use Mimeo.com Exact PrintSM Software -- available free online at http://www.mimeo.com or preloaded on select PCs -- customers are able to use the Internet to manage their document production in a secure, dependable and convenient environment. Mimeo.com's investors include Hewlett-Packard and Draper Fisher Jurvetson/Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham.