Paxar Guarantees RFID Supplies

    Business Editors

    WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2005--Paxar Corporation (NYSE:PXR), a global leader providing bar code, RFID and identification technologies for the retail supply chain and the supplier of Monarch(R) products and services, today announced its groundbreaking smart label performance guarantee. The program offers users of Monarch(R) Class 1 RFID labels and tags, encoded with the Monarch(R) 9855(TM) RFID printer/encoder, and users of Paxar's Q-Service(TM) for RFID a 110% money back guarantee for any labels that prove to be unreadable.
    "Read rates of RFID labels are critical," says Rick Bauer, Paxar's Senior Director, RFID Technical Research. "One of the issues the industry has dealt with has been a high failure rate of the antennas and chips in the labels. At Paxar, we addressed this problem. As an integral part of our smart label production process, we test each chip twice to make sure it is "live". We not only discard any chips that fail, we also discard chips that exhibit low performance characteristics. When the user runs our RFID labels through our printer/encoder, the label is tested yet again. If it fails this time, the printer overstrikes it with an aggressive bar pattern, making it obvious that the label is not good.
    "With our smart labels undergoing three rounds of testing, we are confident that users will achieve 100% read rates. Furthermore, we are prepared to offer a full refund, plus an additional 10%, for any label returned to us for inspection that cannot be programmed by our printer/encoder or cannot be read. With this program, users know that smart labels from Paxar will be readable and that they will not experience high failure rates that could be disastrous to their RFID implementation."
    Bauer reiterates that while the guarantee applies only to customers using Monarch RFID printer/encoders and supplies, or the Company's Q-Service for RFID, customers running Monarch supplies through other brands of printing/encoding equipment will receive the same high quality supplies that have been thoroughly tested before delivery.
    Paxar Corporation is a global leader in the identification and tracking of consumer products worldwide. Paxar(R) products are used the world over by leading apparel brands. Monarch(R) products are used by 90% of the top 100 U.S. retailers and their supply chain partners to identify, track and price all varieties of consumer goods. Paxar is a member of EPCglobal, the agency managing the emerging standards for RFID.

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CONTACT: Paxar Corporation Investor Contact Bob Powers, 914-697-6862 or Media Contact Bob Glavin, 937-865-2907

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