Park City, Utah - July 26, 2004 -- Chronos LC today announced the forthcoming release of SOHO Labels & Envelopes version 1.0, the fastest and easiest way to produce labels and envelopes on Mac OS X. SOHO Labels & Envelopes is the second in the series of Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) products Chronos will be releasing this year--SOHO Business Cards was the first and more SOHO Series products will follow in 2004.

PRE-ORDER TODAY AND SAVE $10

SOHO Labels & Envelopes will be available for download on or before August 16, 2004. The product will ship on a 2-CD set a week later. Users may pre-order SOHO Labels & Envelopes for $19.99 which is a 33% discount off the regular $29.99 price. Detailed product information, screen shots and pre-order information is available at <www.chronosnet.com>.

THE NEW STANDARD FOR LABELS & ENVELOPES ON MAC OS X

SOHO Labels & Envelopes is the fastest way to design and print professional labels and envelopes on Mac OS X. Its next generation design eliminates the headaches typically associated with label and envelope printing. The product can produce address labels, envelopes, letterhead, zip disk labels, audio tapes, file folder labels, floppy disk labels, color coding labels, video labels, automated labels, multi-use labels, name badge labels, permanent ID labels, warning labels, product labels, inventory barcode labels, name tags, gift tags, and office equipment labels.

A COMPLETE LABELS, ENVELOPES, & LETTERHEAD KIT

SOHO Labels & Envelopes is a complete kit and includes everything the user needs to design and print impressive labels, envelopes, and even letterhead. It comes with 13,000+ designer-quality photographs, photos of objects and vector clip art images. This high-quality collection sports high resolution (300 dpi) photos, scalable EPS vector clip art and photos of objects that are pre-masked for transparency around the object. The entire graphics collection can be filtered by category and searched by keyword to find the perfect image. It also ships with 50 Bitstream® commercial-grade fonts so users can obtain the perfect look for their branding.

SOHO Labels & Envelopes is compatible with over 1000 popular label and envelope stocks including those from Avery®, PaperDirect®, DYMO®, APLI, Formtec and more. SOHO Labels & Envelopes ships with tons of ready-made designs including those with photos and artwork right up to the edge of the label or envelope (full bleed). Users may customize a ready-made design for a designer look or create their own.

Users may print their designs on virtually any inkjet, laser or color laser printer including DYMO Labelwriters. Alternatively, users may submit their design to an online commercial print shop via SOHO Labels & Envelopes and have their project delivered right to their door.

POSTNET, BARCODES, & AUTOMATIC NUMBERING

Users can easily add USPS POSTNET barcodes to envelopes and address labels to expedite shipping and ensure proper delivery. Users may also choose from over 10 different barcodes for inventory and equipment labels including, UPC A, UPC E, Code 3 of 9, Code 128, Interleaved 2 of 5, EAN-8, EAN-13, and others.

A powerful automatic numbering or serial number feature can be used to create raffle and admission tickets or to create numbered groups of shipping cartons.

POWERFUL DESIGN TOOLS

An unprecedented suite of tools is included to help users get professional results. Simple, one-step tools let users quickly draw shapes, add graphics, arrange and align objects, rotate objects and add designer special effects. There are more than 30 shapes with individual controls to help users create logos and custom design elements. Built-in rulers, project grid lines, snap-to-grid, real-time alignment guides and full zoom capabilities make positioning objects a breeze.

SOHO Labels & Envelopes comes with an array of special effects once reserved for graphic artists. Some of the more familiar effects include shadows, transparency and linear and circular gradients. Plus, users can easily create more advanced special effects like tinting an image with any color to any degree, clipping an image to any shape and filling text with any image. The software ships with 100+ image masks which can be used on both shapes and images to create fades, soften edges, add texture, etc.

SOHO Labels & Envelopes can import logos, photos and clip art in popular formats. A built-in Scrapbook lets users store favorite graphics, shapes, and text for quick and easy future reuse. The Scrapbook even remembers any special formatting or attributes applied to an object such as font, stroke color, transparency, masks, etc.

SOHO Labels & Envelopes incorporates two precision printing tools for exact results. First, a simple and unique printer calibration feature ensures perfect stock alignment. Second, optional crop marks can be added to assist commercial printers in making precise cuts for regular and full bleed designs.

INTEGRATION

Use over 150 smart-fields to automatically place information from the Mac OS X Address Book directly on designs. Smart-fields take care of the details like name, address and phone number formatting so information doesn't have to be entered a certain way in advance. Plus, there are smart-fields for almost everything including logos, initials, one-line addresses and more. Eight powerful text fitting options can automatically shrink or expand text as necessary or modify letter spacing for full justification effects.

Pictures and albums from iPhoto are automatically loaded and accessible from the built-in Graphics Drawer so users can simply drag a photo right onto their design. The Clip Art Drawer is designed to be very fast and is capable of scrolling through tens of thousands of images in seconds.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

SOHO Labels & Envelopes requires Mac OS X v10.2 or later (v10.3 or later required to use vector clip art); 30MB of available disk space (1.2GB for full clip art collection); CD-ROM drive (software comes on multi-CD set); inkjet or laser printer optional (great results from popular inkjet, laser, color laser printers including DYMO, HP, Epson, Canon, Lexmark, et cetera).

COMPANY INFORMATION

Chronos has been developing award-winning Macintosh software since 1993 and is based in Park City, Utah, home of the 2002 Winter Games.

PR CONTACT

marketing@chronosnet.com