TeleGrafix Ships First RIPscrip 2.0 Online Multimedia Software

(Huntington Beach, CA) - January 24, 1995 -- TeleGrafix Communications Inc.
is now shipping its long-awaited RIPterm Professional 2.0
telecommunications software, the first product based on the company's
revolutionary new RIPscrip 2.0 online multimedia technology.

It is believed to be the first commercial software to have dropped all
support for the popular GIF imaging format following recent actions by
CompuServe and Unisys to restrict usage of GIF images and demand royalties
from the online communications industry.

***RIPscrip Technology Sets New Multimedia Standard***

RIPscrip 2.0 (Remote Imaging Protocol scripting language) dynamically
integrates text, digital sound and high-resolution JPEG video images with
up to 16.7 million colors into a single computer screen. Images are
dazzling, with scaling, color mapping, and image placement happening in
real-time. Serial communications and multimedia effects are handled
simultaneously so that music can be played while graphics are displayed
without interrupting incoming information. The selection of fonts is
virtually unlimited, because RIPscrip 2.0 can import Adobe Type 1 and
TrueType fonts. A new device-independent bitmap (BMP/DIB) icon format
gives computer information system operators cross-platform compatibility
for their screens, so images will be virtually identical on both PC and
Macintosh computers.

Multimedia products based on RIPscrip 2.0 can be transmitted over ordinary
residential telephone lines virtually instaneously, depending on modem
speed. Unlike proprietary imaging systems, RIPscrip 2.0 is fully
compatible with the Internet, CompuServe and other networks that use 7-bit
ASCII text.

Release of the software follows two years of research and development
directed by TeleGrafix's programming team of Executive Vice President Jim
Bergman; Vice President/Chief Technology Officer Mark Hayton; and Chairman
of the Board & Cyberwizard Jeff Reeder.

"RIPscrip 2.0 technology is a milestone technological advance. Online
multimedia will change the way people use computer networks to work, play,
and communicate. It's fast, fun and easy to use," said Patrick Clawson,
President & Chief Executive Officer of TeleGrafix.

***RIPterm Is Powerful, Inexpensive Communications Link***

The new RIPterm Professional 2.0 communications software provides powerful
universal access to the Information Superhighway in an inexpensive,
full-featured communications package.

RIPterm Professional 2.0 supports data transfer rates from 300 to 115,200
baud. Major file transfer protocols are supported, including ASCII text,
QuickB, Kermit, X-Modem, Y-Modem, and Z-Modem. Terminal emulations include
RIPscrip, ANSI, Doorway, TTY, and VT100.  Users can print screen images in
Epson, HP Laserjet, and Postscript modes.

The dialing directory holds up to 1,000 phone numbers. Preloaded are 35 of
America's top commercial online information systems that are the first
users of RIPscrip 2.0 technology. Among those systems are BBS Direct &
Internet Access in Bay City, MI; World Data Network in Reston, VA; Space
BBS in Menlo Park, CA; Calypso Online Services in San Clemente, CA;
Multiverse in Cleveland, Ohio; and others.

RIPterm Professional 2.0 is available now for DOS users. The software's
introductory price is $10 per copy through April 1, 1995, when the price
will increase to $29.95. Bulk quantity discounts and site licenses are
available.

A freeware "RIPterm 2.0 Test Drive" sampler program with limited
functionality will be provided at a later date to online information
system operators for widespread, free electronic dissemination to the
public.

RIPterm Professional 2.0 will be available later this year for Macintosh,
Windows, and PowerPC computing platforms. In the early second quarter of
1995, TeleGrafix expects to release RIPaint 2.0, a program that helps
create online multimedia documents and products, along with the first
products from its "Project Apache" research team that apply RIPscrip 2.0
solutions to the Internet and World Wide Web.

***TeleGrafix Urges CompuServe Protest***

In a related announcement, Clawson stated that TeleGrafix has removed all
GIF imaging formats from RIPscrip 2.0 products and will no longer support
the format. The action was forced by the December 28, 1994 announcement of
CompuServe and Unisys to demand royalties for using GIF, and to restrict
its use to the CompuServe Information Service as a proprietary file
format.

Introduction of RIPterm 2.0 Professional was delayed recently so it could
be reengineered to remove GIF capability. Clawson said many software and
online communications companies like TeleGrafix have been injured by
unexpected product recall and reengineering costs associated with the GIF
controversy.

"We think it is outrageous and morally wrong for these large corporations
to make a demand for money, threaten the online community with patent
infringement lawsuits, and restrict usage after allowing GIF to be freely
licensed on a non-royalty basis for seven years," Clawson said.

"Jeff Reeder and Mark Hayton of TeleGrafix have developed a method by which
GIF images could continue to be used on a royalty-free basis without
infringing the Unisys LZW algorithm patent through substitution of a
different algorithm. We have asked CompuServe, which holds a copyright on
the GIF file format, for permission to distribute our software solution to
the online community free of charge as a public service. CompuServe has
ignored our repeated telephone calls and Internet messages, although they
have disparaged our efforts in comments to the news media. We encourage
our customers to protest directly to CompuServe President Maury Cox about
the GIF controversy," Clawson added.

TeleGrafix Communications
16458 Bolsa Chica, Suite 15
Huntington Beach, CA 92629
Phone: (714) 379-2140
Fax: (714) 379-2132
Internet: rip.support@telegrafix.com

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