PALO ALTO, CA and DAYTON, OH - June 6, 2000 - SMARTworks.com, Inc., the first open platform provider for integrated document management and Noosh, Inc., a leading Internet business-to-business communication and collaboration service provider targeting the printing industry, today announced an agreement designed to leverage the synergies between the two companies.

Launched earlier today, SMARTworks.com, Inc. provides an integrated document management platform that enables customers to manage and effectively reduce the expenses associated with multiple categories of printed and electronic documents within their organizations. Using SMARTworks.com, customers can reduce the overall costs associated with procuring products and services purchased from their commercial printers, quick printers, forms manufacturers, statement printers, office supplies vendors, and facilities managers. The Noosh Internet communication and collaboration service, noosh.com, is designed to dramatically improve the process of buying, selling and managing print products.

Noosh.com provides a collaborative environment where print buyers, printers, creative agencies and others in the supply chain can work together efficiently throughout the complex, multi-step process of print procurement, design and production.

Under the terms of the agreement, the Noosh and SMARTworks.com, Inc. sales and marketing organizations will work together to identify customers who can benefit from the synergy created by the two organizations. Existing SMARTworks.com and Standard Register customers will gain the ability to create collaborative communities to track and manage printing processes, specifications, purchase orders, change orders, paper procurement and scheduling information for enterprise communication services such as commercial printing, direct mail, envelopes, and other marketing materials. Noosh customers gain the ability to access the robust functionality of the SMARTworks requisitioning, catalog management, fulfillment and inventory management modules.

"SMARTworks.com, Inc.'s alliance with Noosh, Inc. will support the demand among our clients for improved commercial print management and enhanced communication methods," says Jeff Allen, vice president, sales and marketing of SMARTworks.com, Inc. "We are excited about the opportunity to team with Noosh. The combination of these two services, together with their growing networks of print suppliers such as Standard Register and Consolidated Graphics, offers customers a best in class integrated print and document management solution."

"Our relationship with SMARTworks.com, Inc. enables Noosh, Inc. to provide customers a solution for their entire print supply chain from design through delivery," said Dave Hannebrink, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Noosh, Inc. "We are excited to bring additional functionality such as catalog management, warehousing and fulfillment capabilities to our customers."

About Noosh, Inc.
Noosh, Inc. (http://www.noosh.com) was founded in 1998 with the goal of creating the industry's leading business-to-business Internet-based communication and collaboration service for enterprise critical printing. Noosh.com, powered by Live Jobs^SM collaborative technology, is designed to help dramatically improve the process of buying, selling and managing print. Leveraging the power of the Internet, noosh.com helps strengthen buyer-printer relationships by providing a collaborative environment where corporate buyers, printers, creative agencies and others in the supply chain of vendors can work together efficiently to manage complex corporate printing from conception to delivery, in real time.

About SMARTworks.com
SMARTworks.com, Inc. provides the printing industry's first supplier-independent open platform for e-procurement and integrated document management-filling a void in the $115 billion U.S. print market. SMARTworks.com operates as an Application Service Provider (ASP) of SMARTworks®, which it markets through its network of channel partners. As an open, hosted Internet service that enables on-line connectivity between customers and their print providers, SMARTworks® allows organizations to significantly reduce the overall costs associated with designing, procuring, distributing, and managing printed and electronic documents throughout the enterprise. SMARTworks.com is a wholly owned corporate subsidiary of Standard Register (NYSE:SR). For more information, visit www.smartworks.com, the company's web page at www.standardregister.com, or call 1.800.755.6405.

Noosh and Live Jobs are the trademark and service mark, respectively, of Noosh, Inc. Other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their holders.