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Xerox and Software 2000 Announce Print Driver Collaboration

OXFORD — August 27, 1999 — Xerox Corporation and Software 2000 announced today that the two companies have signed an agreement covering the use of SW2000 printer driver technologies by Xerox. Under the terms of this agreement Xerox has expanded its relationship with SW2000 and will ship SW2000's printer drivers across a broad range of ink jet and laser-based printer, MFP and digital copier products.

Among the Xerox products that will ship with SW 2000 drivers are selected DocuPrint N Series, Document Centre, and WorkCentre products and future products.

For the past three years Xerox has been using SW2000's driver development toolkits to develop PCL 5e, PCL 5c and PostScript drivers for both the Windows and Windows NT platforms, as well as PrintMagic for its color ink jet products on the Windows platform. The new agreement extends the use of SW2000 products by Xerox to include PCL XL on both platforms and PrintMagic for Windows NT.

"As a manufacturer of high quality, high performance products Xerox always demands the same high quality and performance from its supplier partners," said Robert Goren, vice president, Business Development, Xerox Corp. "SW2000 has met these criteria and their products give us a real edge in our very competitive market"

Nigel Hearne, President of Software 2000's US operation says "we are extremely proud to have been chosen by Xerox as their key supplier of driver technology. Our developer toolkits enabled Xerox engineers to very quickly create high-speed, robust drivers that can really differentiate their products in the market."

About Software 2000

Software 2000 is the world's largest third party developer and supplier of printer driver technology and specializes in the supply of printer driver solutions for the Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Macintosh operating environments. The company supplies to OEMs throughout the world. Driver development products are currently available for PCL 5e, PCL 5c, PCL XL, PostScript Level 2, PostScript 3, and raster/GDI ink jet. In addition Software 2000 has acquired driver technology for the Macintosh platform through its acquisition of CAI earlier this year.

About Xerox Corp.

Xerox Corp. is a $19 billion enterprise serving the worldwide document processing market. It develops, manufactures, markets, services and finances a full range of products and services that make businesses more productive.

Except for historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are dependent on risks and uncertainties including such factors, among others, as the pace at which new markets develop and the Company's ability to implement timely responses to market conditions.

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