Hull, Canada - November 10, 1999 - Hemera Technologies Inc. today announced a bundling agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company, one of the world's largest scanner manufacturers, for their 6300 Professional Series scanners. The agreement will see Hemera's acclaimed NetGraphics Optimizer bundled with the HP ScanJets 6300Cxi, 6350Cxi and 6390Cxi scanners and the award winning Hemera Photo-Objects Gallery bundled with the HP ScanJet 6300Cse and 6350Cse scanners.

Hemera's NetGraphics Optimizer has won many prestigious awards from the press, including the Windows Expert Gold Award, and is recognized as a leading tool in the area of image compression technology for Web usage. Photo-Objects Gallery is a revolutionary image management software application. It includes over 100 Photo-Objects from Hemera's Photo-Objects 25,000 Premium Image Collection and is the ideal companion for desktop publishing, graphics and web design applications. Hemera's NetGraphics Optimizer and Photo-Objects Gallery both operate under Windows® 95/98 and Windows NT® 4.0.

"This is another great deal for Hemera," said David Hood, CEO of Hemera Technologies. "We are happy to be expanding our relationship with HP and we see it growing as Hemera moves forward with our emerging technologies. OEM deals with large companies like HP means that the industry recognizes the technology, quality and value in Hemera products."

"Hemera Technologies imaging and graphics software is a tremendous complement to our HP ScanJet 6200C, 6250C, and 6390C series scanners," said Lance Dismang, ISV Product Manager of Hewlett-Packard's Greeley HardCopy Division. "The high quality and ease of use of the Hemera software solutions fit very well into this professional series of scanners. We are confident that consumers will enjoy the experience using Photo-Objects Gallery and NetGraphics Optimizer with their HP ScanJet Scanners,"