MARRIOTT, STSN and EFI To Expand PrintMe Service
To Hundreds of U.S. Hotels Nationwide
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PrintMe’s Mobile Printing Solution Rapidly Becoming Hospitality Standard
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FOSTER CITY, Calif. – May 20, 2003 – Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE:MAR), Electronics For Imaging (Nasdaq: EFII) and STSN, Inc. announced today that a rapid rollout will begin immediately to provide PrintMe™ service to over 400 high-speed Internet access (HSIA)-enabled Marriott hotels nationwide, essentially establishing PrintMe as the standard for mobile printing in the hospitality industry. Dozens of HSIA-enabled Marriott properties are already using PrintMe through STSN’s high-speed Internet access service. 

PrintMe, developed by EFI, enables wireless devices and laptops to send documents to printers without requiring special cables, drivers, or IT support.  With PrintMe, hotel guests can quickly and easily print documents from their hotel room using the hotel’s high-speed Internet access system. 

“Marriott takes pride in providing our business customers with industry-leading services that allow them to work as efficiently on the road as they do at their own desk,” said Lou Paladeau, Marriott vice president of technology business development. “PrintMe helps by making document printing as easy as logging on to our high speed Internet system in the privacy of their guest room.”

“We are excited to join with Marriott and STSN in rolling out our breakthrough PrintMe technology at nearly 400 hotels, making PrintMe the hospitality industry standard for mobile printing,“ said Ofer Tenenbaum, General Manager of EFI’s PrintMe division. “With hundreds of Marriott locations offering PrintMe, business guests nationwide will be able to print needed documents anytime and anywhere, without worrying about printer drivers or cables.”

“STSN has witnessed amazing growth in buy rates for our high-speed Internet access service,” said Dave Garrison, CEO of STSN. “We can see that a growing number of business travelers expect and use office-like solutions in their hotel room. The addition of EFI’s PrintMe functionality to STSN’s services is evidence of Marriott’s responsiveness to the growing needs of business travelers.”

Today’s announcement follows months of successful PrintMe installations at Marriott hotels in major cities. Marriott leads the hotel industry in offering guests high-speed Internet access with more than 650 hotels online. 

To use the PrintMe service at Marriott Hotels, guests simply log on to the Internet from their rooms, click on the PrintMe link, and upload their documents.  Documents can be delivered to guest rooms, or, for total confidentiality, can be held for printing until the guest personally retrieves it using a secure DocID number.

For a list of current hotels offering PrintMe service, please visit the PrintMe web site at: http://www.printme.com/locations.

How PrintMe Works

PrintMe is a secure, global system that connects printers and users using the Internet. Every printer that joins the network is assigned a unique number, an e-mail address and a web page.  Users can then send documents via e-mail or over the web, using laptops and desktop computers, wireless and mobile devices, and cell phones and two-way pagers. PrintMe users do not need additional software, driver downloads or IT support in order to print. PrintMe is available at airports, hotels and corporate environments around the world.

About Marriott International
MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC. (NYSE:MAR) is a leading worldwide hospitality company with nearly 2,600 lodging properties in the United States and 66 other countries and territories.  Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under the Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Residence Inn, Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites and Ramada International brand names; develops and operates vacation ownership resorts under the Marriott Vacation Club International, Horizons, The Ritz-Carlton Club and Marriott Grand Residence Club brands; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers.  The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., has approximately 129,000 employees, and was ranked as the lodging industry's most admired company and one of the best places to work for by FORTUNE®.  For more information or reservations, please visit the web site at www.marriott.com.

About STSN
STSN was founded in 1998 and has become the worldwide leading provider of wired and wireless high-speed Internet access services to the hospitality industry.  Every month, more than a quarter million business travels rely on STSN to increase their productivity with secure, easy-to use, and high-speed connectivity options in more than 150,000 guestrooms and 4,500 hotel meeting rooms.  STSN is headquartered at 7090 Union Park Avenue, Suite #200, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84047 with additional offices in North America and Europe.  For more information or to access a list of STSN-enabled hotels, visit www.stsn.com.

About Electronics For Imaging
Electronics For Imaging (www.efi.com) is the world leader in imaging solutions for network printing. EFI's industry-leading core technology offers powerful document management tools, seamless networking, high fidelity color and black-and-white output, and greater productivity and cost efficiency. EFI products support a broad range of printers, copiers, multifunction devices and mobile communications devices and printer speeds of up to 2000 ppm in color. EFI has pioneered many innovative imaging solutions, including the Fiery®, EDOX®, Splash™ and DocStream™ brands of print controllers, Velocity™ workflow software, eBeam® Web-enabled whiteboards and PrintMe which enables anytime, anywhere printing. Best™, headquartered in Germany, is a division of EFI offering an array of inkjet proofing solutions for the Graphic Arts market. Unimobile™ is EFI's mobile messaging solution for interactive data delivery.  EFI maintains 20 offices worldwide. 

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Contact:

EFI
Mimi Sells
650.357.3712
Mimi.Sells@efi.com
https://www.printme.com/

STSN
Sandra Richards
srichards@stsn.com
801.563.2140

Marriott
Scott Carman
scott.carman@marriott.com
301.380.6491



 
Also See PrintMe Networks Gives San Francisco Hyatt a Competitive Edge Among Business Travelers / Feb 2003
Marriott Pilots New Printing Service for Hotel Guests; Guests Send Documents via e-mail to a Hotel Printer / March 2002


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