PhotoAccess.com Blows Up Customer Images With Large Format Products From BigNose.com

PhotoAccess partners with BigNose.com to offer custom posters directly from customer images over the Web.

Mountain View, CA, July 26, 2000
PhotoAccess.com Corporation, a leading provider of digital photo finishing solutions, today announced an agreement with BigNose.com to offer high-quality custom large format products such as posters and collages generated directly from customer images. Using PhotoAccess Photon™, BigNose.com links directly to the PhotoAccess image server, allowing customers to access their photo archive directly from the BigNose.com site. They can select an image from their PhotoAccess account and create poster size output, including various paper finishes and custom text.

"The addition of this new and unique product line offers customers more choices for publishing their photos, which is a particular goal of the company," said Mark Waldin, VP of Marketing for PhotoAccess. "Our Photon interface allows other web sites to interface to and access directly our customers' image stores, and we're excited to have BigNose as one of our first partners in using this technology to give customers even more ways to use their images." continued Waldin.

Under this new arrangement, PhotoAccess customers will be able to create custom posters and other large format products from their images, directly on the BigNose web site. Typical subjects for custom posters include teen sports, vacation photos, pets, cars, group gatherings and are perfect for gifts, parties or to decorate a room or office.

Customers will be able to create poster sized products ranging from 18 x 24 inches to 36 x 48 inches in size on a variety of standard paper finishes such as gloss or matte finishes. In addition, customers will be able to personalize their products by adding custom headlines in a variety of text styles and sizes. Once the order is submitted, BigNose.com will produce and fulfill the customers' product within 48 hours.

"We're excited to have a leader in digital imaging such as PhotoAccess as a partner" said Tim Flanagan, President of BigNose.com. "With digital imaging technologies and Web-based ordering we're able to keep our cost down and offer PhotoAccess customers high-quality products at a tremendous value" continued Flanagan.

Prices range from $14.95 for a 18 x 24 inch, $24.95 for a 24 x 36 inch and $39.95 for a 36 x 48 inch standard poster. Custom sizes and additional premium papers such as artists canvas and finishing such as lamination and mounting on foam core is available at additional cost.

About BigNose.com
Founded in 1999, BigNose.com is the leading supplier of custom large format products to partners, businesses and consumers. Its mission is to provide a large variety of customized and personalized large format products such as poster, collages and puzzles, to a wide audience through partnerships with on-line photographic e-tailers and in stores with traditional photographic product suppliers and direct through independent photographers. BigNose.com is a privately held company with offices in Ossining, New York and Bremerton, Washington. For more information on BigNose.com, visit our Web site www.bignose.com.

About PhotoAccess
Founded in 1997, PhotoAccess.com is a leading provider of digital imaging solutions for the Internet. Its mission is to provide partners and consumers worldwide with the most convenient, cost-effective way to obtain film-quality prints from digital photos. The privately funded company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Seattle, Washington, and Tokyo, Japan. PhotoAccess recently expanded into Asia, founding PhotoAccess.com K.K. and launching their Japanese Web site, www.PhotoAccess.co.jp. PhotoAccess has received venture capital funding from AVI Capital, JAFCO America and Allegro Capital. For more information on PhotoAccess and its products, please visit the U.S. Web site at www.PhotoAccess.com.

Press Contact:

Mark Waldin
PhotoAccess.com
(206) 902-1411
mwaldin@photoaccess.com

Michael Reiher
BigNose.com
(877) 672-4466
michael@bignose.com