New Ribstone MEAP Enabled Bates Labeling and Kiosk Solutions Available for Canon imageRUNNER Devices

PHILADELPHIA, May 16, 2006 Canon U.S.A., Inc.,  the nations market share brand leader in black-and-white and color laser printer/copier solutionsi, and Ribstone Systems today announced the availability of a suite of Ribstone product offerings exclusive to Canon U.S.A. dealers, including a MEAP version of Ribstones Bates Labeling application for MEAP enabled imageRUNNER devices. 

With Ribstones new offerings and their imageRUNNER devices, legal print-for-pay vendors and law firms will be able to rapidly transform boxes of hard-copy legal documents into digital imaging files that can be reproduced and easily shared with opposing counsel as part of the legal discovery process, said Shinichi Yoshida, director and general manager, Product Marketing Division, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A., Inc. 

The new Ribstone product offerings available through Canon U.S.A. dealers will include:

• Ribstone EM-1 Version 1.1 for Canon MEAP enabled imageRUNNER Devices Ribstone has developed this application software which uses Canons proprietary Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform (MEAP) for its Scan-to-Print product.  Ribstone EM-1 Version 1.1 is an easy-to-use, Bates numbering application for the simultaneous creation of paginated photo copies for corporate legal departments and law firms.  Using this new offering, operators are able to scan, Bates number and print files with just one pass of an original document from an imageRUNNER device.  This offering can be loaded directly onto the imageRUNNER device, eliminating the need and expense for an external touch screen monitor.  

• Ribstone Suite The Ribstone Suite, a kiosk solution for imageRUNNER and DR Scanner devices, combines Ribstones Capture, Scan Express, Image Printer, Scan-to-Print and an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) License into one comprehensive package.  This kiosk solution is designed for those users that require all of the added functionality of these programs and who also prefer the larger interface that the separate touch screen provides.  

• Onsite Express Onsite Express is a portable scanning solution hosted on a laptop computer that scans original files to TIFF and MTIFF formats, as well as graphic or searchable PDFs.

• Ribstone Systems Cost Recovery Connectors for Equitrac and nQueue Ribstone has developed cost recovery connectors that automatically report scanning and printing information directly to Equitrac and nQueue applications. 

The Ribstone offerings will be on display at the Canon booth (#1624) at the AIIM On Demand Show in Philadelphia, May 16th 18th.

About Ribstone Systems
Ribstone Systems, a Chicago-based company, has become an industry leader in the convergence of office technologies by offering the most dynamic solutions for scanning, image-processing and printing in document intensive legal and business environments.  Ribstone Systems helps clients leverage multifunction products by marrying intuitive and feature-rich software to the latest generation of office copiers.  Web site:  http://www.ribstonesystems.com

About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc. delivers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial imaging solutions. The Company is listed as one of Fortune's Most Admired Companies in America and is rated #35 on the BusinessWeek list of "Top 100 Brands." Its parent company Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ) is a top patent holder of technology, ranking second overall in the U.S. in 2005, with global revenues of $31.8 billion. For more information, visit www.usa.canon.com.

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i  Source Gartner Dataquest Printer Quarterly Statistics United States Database, Camille Iorns February 2006.