IOWA CITY, IA-October 8th, 2004. Today MetaCommunications, Inc. announced it will be demonstrating several exciting new product lines and upgrades at the forthcoming Graph Expo 2004 and DMA 87th Annual Conference. MetaCommunications R&D expansion in the U.S. and Russia has resulted in several ground breaking new products and solutions. METACOMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES APPROVAL MANAGER(tm) 1.0. New workflow product Manages the approval process of digital proofs in creative, publishing, packaging,and prepress environments. SNEAK PEAK AT DIGITAL STORAGE MANAGER(tm) 1.0. This new unannounced Product will be unveiled for the first time exclusively to Graph Expo 2004 attendees. Digital Storage Manager is a unique new storage management solution designed to manage the lifecycle of graphical production data from creation to archive. Digital Storage Manager is the first data lifecycle management product targeted at the high volume graphical production market and has the promise of improving process controls and drastically reducing the amount of time and effort required to migrate, archive, and retrieve digital files. Digital Storage Manager will be available by year-end 2004. Digital Storage Manager will be Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X compatible. Official Announcement to come in November 2004. METACOMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES NEW JDF SOLUTIONS FRAMEWORK(tm) FOR VIRTUAL TICKET(tm) 6.0. New JDF Solutions Framework support enables industry vendors to use Virtual Ticket as graphical front-end for creating JDF job tickets and initiating JDF workflows. METACOMMUNICATIONS RELEASES VIRTUAL TICKET(tm) 6.0 UPGRADE. Major upgrade of the Virtual Ticket production platform adds native support for Mac OS X,custom queries, and over 25 new features and enhancements. METACOMMUNICATIONS RELEASES VIRTUAL TICKET(tm) WEB SERVER 1.5 UPGRADE. Major upgrade of the Web Server platform provides improved user interface and new add-in support for KPG's RealTimeProof digital proofing solution.