Exact Digital Replicas of NAPCO's Magazines Now Available Online Thanks to LizardTech's DjVu® Document Format

SEATTLE, Wash. — November 16, 2005 — LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, teamed up with technology partner Realview to transform NAPCO's hard copy magazines into digital replicas online thanks to LizardTech's DjVu document format and Realview's Online Publishing Solution.

With LizardTech's groundbreaking DjVu technology, originally developed in AT&T Research Labs, readers of magazines such as Printing Impressions, BookTech, E-Gear and other NAPCO print publications will now be able to receive digital replicas of their favorite magazine, with the same layout as the print edition, featuring all the editorial content, colorful images and advertisements. In addition, the digital edition of the magazines will include hyperlinks to Web sites mentioned throughout the magazine giving readers immediate access to additional advertiser offers and information, the latest news and more.

"The Internet has groomed many people to a standard of immediate access to fresh information—a standard that the long lead times and distribution make it increasingly difficult for print publications to meet. That's why we're excited to fulfill NAPCO's desire to provide digital replicas of their magazines to their readers," said Carlos Domingo, CEO and president of Celartem, Inc. "As the cost of print production and distribution continue to climb, DjVu stands out as the most efficient and cost effective solution for delivering exact digital replicas of print publications such as newspapers and magazines to readers."

"We are delighted to work with LizardTech and Realview and believe that this cutting-edge digital publication solution will further enhance our products and services for our 300,000 subscribers and 20,000 advertisers," said Ned Borowsky, president of NAPCO. "As NAPCO's subscriber base continues to achieve rapid growth, we needed a solution that would enable us to reduce our production and distribution costs without compromising the quality of our magazines. The LizardTech and Realview publishing solution allows us to deliver our publications to our subscribers electronically with all the same characteristics as its printed counterpart."

The benefits of using LizardTech's DjVu technology are significant. Publishers are able to convert their current print issues to DjVu format from pre-press PDFs as well as by scanning past print issues, resulting in dramatically small file sizes - anywhere from 10 to 100 times smaller than alternative formats like PDF or JPEG. DjVu digital replicas preserve the stunning visual quality of the print edition and are enhanced with multimedia features like ability to search by keyword within the pages (even within scanned documents thanks to OCR support for over 100 languages), hyperlinks, e-mail addresses, page spills and more. In addition, unlike HTML and online content, distribution of most digital editions can be counted as audited circulation, increasing the publication's ability to expand its reach nationally or internationally, thereby boosting advertising revenue.

All 14 NAPCO-published magazines will become available in digital form by early 2006.

About North American Publishing Company
North American Publishing Company (NAPCO) was established in 1958. NAPCO successfully operates magazines, trade shows, directories and online services for the various markets it serves. Currently, the company operates 14 magazines, five subscription services and two trade shows and employs over 150 people. Corporate headquarters are located in Philadelphia. Sales personnel are located in New York, Chicago and throughout the country.

About Realview Technologies
Realview Technologies is a market leading document and imaging company founded more than seven years ago to develop and sell technology that enables digital distribution of publications and printed assets.

The Realview Online Publishing Solution (ROPS) allows effortless organization and online publishing of paper assets such as comics, newspapers and magazines. A subscription module provides secure, auditable access to digitized paper assets and the publications are fully searchable with Realview's indexing technologies. Realview Technologies is located in Sydney, Australia and has a growing network of partners around the world.

About Document Express with DjVu
Document Express with DjVu products combine advanced compression algorithms with sophisticated image segmentation technologies, enabling the rapid exchange and efficient archiving of complex color documents and optical character recognition (OCR) in more than a hundred languages, all without compromise to image quality or text legibility. The core technology underlying DjVu, developed in AT&T Research Labs, is in open source. The Document Express Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to integrate DjVu encoding and decoding functionality into their applications and enables organizations to integrate the DjVu technology directly into their document management workflow.

About LizardTech
LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., was founded in 1992 to build valuable business solutions from technologies created by the world's leading research organizations including Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and AT&T Labs. LizardTech is a leader in applying state-of-the-art technologies to the real-world challenges of managing, distributing, and accessing large complex digital content such as aerial photographs, satellite imagery, and color scanned documents. LizardTech's software is installed on millions of desktops and integrated into a wide variety of platforms and applications. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, London and Tokyo. LizardTech is a division of Celartem, Inc., which is wholly owned by Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For more information about LizardTech, visit http://www.lizardtech.com.

About Celartem
Celartem Technology Inc., develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, Hercules:4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. with headquarters in Seattle.

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For more information, press only:
Justyna Bednarski, LizardTech, (206) 902-2839, jbednarski@lizardtech.com
Bob Gibbons, NAPCO, (215) 238-5344, bgibbons@napco.com