Partnership Provides Specially Discounted Tools for MrSID Users that Offer Dramatic Efficiencies in the Output of Massive MrSID Images.

February 20, 2002 - Seattle, WA

LizardTech, Inc. and PINEBUSH Technologies today announced the availability of specially discounted series of modules that enable MrSID® Geo users to dramatically increase efficiency in the output of high-resolution MrSID images. Now available in PINEBUSH's HyperXpress® RIP (Raster Image Processor) printing product is the ability to output MrSID imagery and drastically reduce - by as much as 90% or more - both image printing time and the file size delivered to standard printing or plotting devices.

PINEBUSH Technologies' HyperXpress is a high-performance printing and plotting solution that can print large complex designs (of any size) on any desktop printer or large format plotter. LizardTech's MrSID, the preferred image format for geospatial professionals, is a wavelet-based imaging technology that reduces high-resolution images to less than five percent of their original file size while maintaining original image quality. Incorporating HyperXpress in the MrSID printing support offers GIS, CAD, remote sensing, and other high-resolution imagery users the ability to reduce both printing time and output file size that occurs when plotting massive image mosaics in formats such as TIFF and MrSID.

The Shearwater Group, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of PINEBUSH Technology software, including HyperXpress. "We are excited to be adding this solution to our set of offerings," said Richard Morse, President of Shearwater. "PINEBUSH Technologies is the de facto printing standard for the semiconductor (chip) industry where massive file sizes are commonplace.Applying this expertise to this market was a logical application. The user base of MrSID is widespread and, while we believe that all MrSID users can immediately take advantage of HyperXpress' capabilities, we think that the opportunity to reduce printing resources and the associated costs will be especially attractive to users that output massive MrSID image mosaics."

Now available are special pricing discounts for MrSID Geo 1.5 users plus additional solutions for ESRI and MapInfo customers. For new or upgraded customers of the recently released MrSID Geo version 1.5, LizardTech is currently including a free demo CD of HyperXpress plus special pricing discounts. In addition, ESRI and MapInfo customers will greatly benefit from recently released modules designed and tested to enable seamless access to HyperXpress for printing directly from products such as ESRI's ArcView 3.2 and ArcGIS 8.1 as well as from MapInfo Professional 6.x products.

"We will continually work to improve both our core technologies and to strengthen partnerships with best of breed software providers such as Pinebush and Shearwater," said Bill Patterson, president and CEO of LizardTech. "Pinebush's HyperXpress product line will allow users of MrSID imagery to dramatically improve their workflow when printing massive MrSID image mosaics."

Additional product details and pricing can be accessed at:
http://www.lizardtech.com/pinebush

About PINEBUSH Technologies
Pinebush Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Albany, New York, is a leading developer of high performance printing and plotting software solutions. Pinebush's HyperXpress toolkit used in CAD, GIS, mapping, architecture, engineering and other high-technology applications breaks the printing bottleneck by allowing any size data to be printed at virtually any size on almost all output devices.Pinebush's flagship product, HyperPlot®, has become the standard for plotting in the semiconductor industry with over 25,000 electronic CAD designers worldwide relying on its optimized printing engine.Information about Pinebush and its products can be obtained at www.pinebush.com.

About LizardTech
LizardTech creates software solutions and tools that make high-quality digital content easier to capture, store, share and use. The company's innovative solutions improve business by making business-critical information available instantly over any network on any device. LizardTech is a private company, formed 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's software is installed on millions of desktops and integrated into a wide variety of platforms and applications. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Amsterdam and Tokyo. Additional information about LizardTech can be found at www.lizardtech.com.

LizardTech, MrSID, DjVu, Genuine Fractals and the LizardTech logo are trademarks, MrSID and DjVu are registered trademarks in the United States, and all are the property of LizardTech Inc. HyperXpress® is a registered trademark of PINEBUSH Technologies, Inc.  All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.