Station Desjardins, Montreal, Canada April 8, 2004 -- The Montreal-based company Aptika, which designs and distributes a powerful and reliable photo card management solution (IDpack Plus) is launching a new IDpack solution on April 8, 2004: IDpack Lite, ideal for small budgets.

IDpack Lite is a fast and reliable badge-printing program. It allows you to design and produce photo ID cards, badges and nametags for all kinds of uses: employees, schools, libraries, membership, corporate security cards, convention cards and all other identification needs. IDpack prints on your own printer with more than 1,000 Avery label formats built in and 60 DYMO LabelWriter formats.

With this ready-to-install package and its user-friendly interface, this special version will fulfill our customers' basic identification needs. Using paper support and an IDpack built-in database, IDpack Lite users will be able to produce an unlimited number of badges. The program consists of a badge designer and a producer. IDpack Designer allows you to customize your badges with text, barcodes, logos, pictures and more. The Producer has a digital picture capability via camera input, imported pictures, barcode reading and more.

With our customer-oriented flexibility, Aptika has always tried to offer the best, most comprehensive solution for each specific case. That's the reason Aptika has decided to extend the IDpack range and, as always, customer satisfaction is our primary goal.

Since 1999, IDpack has been a simple-to-use software, enhancing security and managing personnel movement for numerous customers of all types. The best solution on the market for creating ID cards effortlessly with small budgets is certainly IDpack Lite.

IDpack Lite v.7.0 costs $99 (US), runs under Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP, and can be purchased securely online at http://www.aptika.com . You can download a fully-functional 21-day trial version from the same Web address.

About APTIKA

Aptika delivers professional IT solutions and services. The IDpack Division, which enjoys international recognition with customers worldwide who are looking for high-performance security solutions, is dedicated to the development and marketing of IDpack software. It also offers a great range of IDpack Certified Hardware and a professional accreditation service for large-scale events. The Applications Development Division is specialized in the custom development of applications for both small and large corporations.

For more information, contact APTIKA, P.O. Box 539, Station Desjardins, Montreal, Quebec H5B 1B6, Canada. Phone: (514) 288-7646 / Fax: (514) 288-7546 / Internet: http://www.aptika.com / Email: e-mail protected from spam bots.

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