SAN DIEGO, July 27 ENCAD, a leading innovator in wide-format, color inkjet printers, ink, and media announced today it has joined forces with PIP Printing to offer business-to-business wide-format printing solutions to PIP Printing's 400 independently owned and operated franchisees throughout the United States. PIP Printing will have full access to ENCAD's complete line of NovaJet® wide-format, color inkjet printers, making it easy, affordable and productive for PIP Printing franchisees to offer colorful, long-lasting indoor and outdoor printing solutions for their customers. Under the terms of the agreement, PIP Printing franchisees enjoy special pricing and support on the complete line of ENCAD's NovaJet wide-format printers, as well as, ink, media, and RIP technology. PIP Printing franchisees can utilize ENCAD's eight- and four-color printing technology to create vivid, breath-taking indoor photo enlargements, photographic portraits, point-of-purchase signage, backlit displays, and fine art renderings. For outdoor applications PIP Printing franchisees can produce water-resistant and lightfast durable banners, posters and murals. "Whether it's for large or small print jobs, the ease-of-operation and comprehensive indoor and outdoor capabilities of ENCAD's products create the ideal solution for PIP Printing,'' stated Dan Burmeister, ENCAD's Director of OEM and Corporate Accounts. "We will help PIP Printing satisfy their customers' wide-format printing needs.'' "The color wide-format market is forecast to grow over 25% through the year 2005. Providing our customers with wide-format products is an integral part of our full service strategy. ENCAD is a leader in wide-format technology. Their state-of-the art solutions will help PIP franchisees offer the best array of products to their customers'', says Catherine Monson, CEO of PIP Printing.