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For more information, please contact:

Jessica Clark
Senior Marketing Manager
VisionWeb
512-241-8561
jclark@visionweb.com

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Barbara Wagner
Marketing Manager
Santinelli International
800-644-3343 X349
bwagner@santinelli.com

VisionWeb Interfaces with Santinelli Tracer to Give Members Added Convenience and Improve Accuracy of Online Ordering

Austin, TX (May 18, 2005) VisionWeb, the online service that helps eyecare providers streamline their practices, and Santinelli International, the leading provider of optical lens finishing and edging equipment, today announced the integration of Santinelli’s Nidek LT-900 tracer with VisionWeb Essential. This will bring eyecare practices that use the Nidek LT-900 the convenience and accuracy of remote edging.

The integration of the Santinelli tracer with VisionWeb Essential gives doctors using in-house tracers more efficiency by linking them to any laboratory in the VisionWeb network—increasing accuracy while reducing turn-around time. “We are pleased to work with Santinelli International to increase the accuracy of our members’ remote-edged jobs,” said Ron Barnes, vice president of sales and marketing for VisionWeb.

“Santinelli and VisionWeb share a common goal,” said Barbara Wagner, marketing manager of Santinelli International, “to enable each eyecare practice to make the best use of in-house finishing and remote entry technology.” Eyecare practitioners can now send a lab order electronically and add a trace file to it, enabling the lab to provide the most accurate lenses back to the doctor.

VisionWeb strives to support eyecare practitioners with the optical products and services that encourage their practices to grow and better serve their patients. VisionWeb also helps optical laboratories deliver the highest quality products in the least amount of time while reducing errors.

For more information about VisionWeb Essential, or to become a member, visit www.visionweb.com.

About Santinelli International

Santinelli International is headquartered in Hauppauge, New York. The Santinelli vision has always been to work hand in hand with eyecare professionals by becoming their greatest resource and a major provider of finishing equipment. Through a strong alliance with Nidek of Japan, Santinelli has quickly risen to the #1 provider of edging equipment in the U.S. Uncompromising integrity, operational excellence and flawless execution are the hallmarks of the Santinelli International name. With an unmatched commitment to advanced technology, Santinelli International continues to prove its excellence by providing the highest quality finishing equipment, with superior client service.

About VisionWeb
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, LP is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers online multi-payer insurance transaction processing; convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information; customizable eyecare practice Web sites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors, and patients.