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Deborah Sagert Joins Xant&ea= cute; as Director Customer Support, Americas

Ve= teran Customer Relations Manager is Well-Suited for Xanté Aggressive Growth Plans

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January 3, 2008 – Mobile, AL – Following closely on the heels of its recent acquisition of RIPit and a hig= hly successful fall trade show season, Xanté today announces the appoint= ment of Deborah Sagert to the position of director customer support, Americas. In this newly created position, Sagert reports directly to Xanté senior vice president of worldwide sales, Scott Reese.

Located at Xant&ea= cute; headquarters in Mobile, AL, Sagert is responsible for customer service for the Americas, including the company’s team of custo= mer service specialists and technical support specialists, the warranty administration department, and training of authorized service agents. =

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“It’s = key that we maintain our exclusive, A-plus customer satisfaction levels, especially = as we aggressively expand in the Americas and internationally,” Reese says. R= 20;Finding a good director is difficult– getting one who brings so much extra ba= ng, like Deborah, is a real coup for us.” Reese cites Sagert’s expe= rt credentials and considerable, successful work experience as being perfectly suited for the company’s intensely focused support operations. “= ;We and our customers can look forward to the positive impact Deborah will have= on our organization.”

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Prior to joining Xanté earlier this year, Sagert spent six years as the customer relationship manager for Glovia International, the El Segundo, California-b= ased ERP Software Division of Fujitsu. In this role she was responsible for all aspects of supplier/customer partnerships for major accounts such as Carrier Corporation, Mitsubishi Power Systems and the Engineered Services Division = of Tyco International. Xanté was one of her accounts during this period. Before Glovia, Sagert spent 25 years at Chrysler Corporation, where she was manager of engineering records.

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About The New Xanté

Xanté provides state-of-the-art workflow and imaging soluti= ons for high quality graphic and prepress applications by leveraging a combinat= ion of its own hallmark technologies and those acquired from RIPit and Exxtra. = The product line includes process-free metal and polyester computer-to-plate im= aging devices including the popular Impressia and PlateMaker lines; high resoluti= on digital color presses including Ilumina; large format VM series violet metal platesetters and the SpeedSetter series of polyester imaging systems; and award-winning OpenRIP^® Symphony workflow software, based on = an Adobe^® PostScript^® 3™ RIP and one of the first workflows to support the Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE). OpenRIP Symph= ony allows every device in the print shop -- including platesetters, imagesette= rs, laser printers, digital copiers, inkjet printers and plotters -- to be controlled from a single RIP for true workflow consistency.

Xanté Corporation headquarter= s is located in = Mobile, Alabama, USA= , with offices in Sacramento, CA; Hauppauge, NY; Duiven, NL; and Zhengzhou, CN. Xanté products are distributed t= hrough a worldwide network of reseller and distribution partners. For more information, please visit xante.com.

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