Rolling Meadows, IL November 5, 2002 — John Lally, Senior VP Sales, announced today the promotion of Jim Hanger to National Sales Manager, responsible for sales in North America. Jim is an industry veteran of over 30 years, who has held various key managerial positions in the pre-press vendor marketplace. His most recent position was Western Regional Sales Manager for alfaQuest Technologies, a post that he held since July of 2000. alfaQuest Technologies, Inc., a member of the IPA Group of companies, designs, integrates, and supports powerful cost-efficient, newspaper workflow page processing and imaging systems for the publishing industry. The number of worldwide installations now exceeds 10,000.