Equitrac and Ribstone Systems Announce Integrated Scan, Print and Tracking Solution for Legal and Professional Firms

July 6, 2006
Equitrac Professional Connector Links Ribstone Image Printer, Scan Express and Scan-to-Print to Market-Leading Equitrac Cost Recovery Solution

PLANTATION, Fla. and CHICAGO, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Equitrac Corporation, the leader in intelligent cost recovery and print management solutions worldwide, and Ribstone Systems, Inc., a leading developer of document capture and processing solutions, today announced the integration of the companies' leading scan, print and cost recovery software products to create an integrated end-to-end document capture, distribution and accounting solution for legal and other professional firms.

Now available, the Equitrac Professional Connector integrates Ribstone System's Image Printer, Scan Express and Scan-to-Print solutions for multi- function devices with Equitrac Professional and Equitrac Professional Enterprise Edition document accounting solutions to provide complete scan tracking and cost recovery functionality in a powerful, integrated solution.

Ribstone Image Printer, an easy-to-use kiosk-based application, lets legal and professional office staff create instant print sets of TIFF or PDF images from an imported CD or from a networked drive, while Scan Express allows users to create TIFFs, PDFs, bookmark PDFs, document breaks, OCR and Bates(TM) numbers as they scan documents for simultaneous printing. Scan-to-Print, the litigation industry's easiest-to-use application for Bates(TM) numbering, lets law offices simultaneously create sets of fully customized and paginated Bates(TM) numbered photocopies with just one pass of an original document.

Equitrac Professional and Equitrac Professional Enterprise Edition enable distributed cost recovery functionality for legal and professional customers using Ribstone System's Image Printer, Scan Express and Scan-to-Print solutions. The integration of Equitrac Professional and Professional Enterprise Edition through Equitrac Professional Connector adds real value to law offices, public relations and advertising agencies and other professional firms that bill back scanning and printing costs to clients for whom those services are performed.

Equitrac Professional solutions allows legal and professional firms to consolidate and issue reports and recover costs based on usage of Ribstone print and scan solutions for specific clients. Equitrac Professional Connector provides user authentication and validation and matches Ribstone scan and print transaction data to client billing codes in the Equitrac Professional software database. Record creation with related billing codes for a completed Ribstone transaction is then sent to the Equitrac software database for periodic, user-defined report creation and export to the billing package.

"Legal and professional firms will delight in the ease with which Equitrac Professional Connector links Ribstone's leading scan and print solutions with the demonstrated scan- and print-tracking and cost recovery benefits of Equitrac Professional," said Chris Wyszkowski, Vice President, Product Marketing and Management, Equitrac. "Ribstone solutions allow easy scanning and output to print or digital documents, while Equitrac Professional helps professional office staff to track, report and recover expenses specific to the document delivery process."

"Image Printer, Scan Express and Scan-to-Print solutions translate into more efficient document and indexing workflow processes for legal and professional firms using digital copiers," said Eric Rodriguez, President, Ribstone Systems. "Now, Ribstone users can enjoy full integration of our leading scan and print solutions with Equitrac Professional's best-of-breed document tracking and cost recovery solutions for the legal and professional market."

Equitrac Professional Connector for Image Printer, Scan Express and Scan- to-Print solutions is immediately available. For additional information contact Ribstone Systems or visit their website at http://www.ribstoneusa.com

Further information about Equitrac Professional solutions for legal and other professional firms is available online at: http://www.equitrac.com/solutions_legal.asp .

About Equitrac
Equitrac Corporation is the recognized leader and most trusted name worldwide in intelligent cost recovery and print management solutions. Backed by an unmatched R&D program and the largest team of cost recovery experts in the world, Equitrac enjoys preferred technology partnerships with the world's leading providers of hardware and software solutions for the office environment. From the Fortune Global 100 to college campuses, within the AMLAW 200 and in municipalities across the globe, Equitrac solutions are at work helping organizations recover costs, reduce waste, increase returns and maximize efficiency in printers, copiers and multifunction devices. For more information, visit http://www.equitrac.com .

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.ribstoneusa.com .