CafePress.com Expands Services By Offering Black Garments To Entire Community of Shopkeepers

Number One Requested Item Released to Design Community

FOSTER CITY, CA (November 8, 2005) - CafePress.com, the leading online marketplace offering sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, announced today the expansion of its highly coveted black garment printing program. Beginning in 2001 CafePress.com released its "CafePress.com Colors" program to a limited number of accounts. The program offered colored garments, but required setup fees, and was not scalable to the millions of designs offered by Shopkeepers. These restrictions limited this program to only a few high volume customers. With today's announcement the company's entire community of independent Shopkeepers will be able to sell black garments without upfront costs, utilizing innovative new print on-demand technology.

"With a community of over 1.4 million shops, not a day goes by where we aren't asked for black garments. There has always been a degree of dissention in the community about our ability to offer these items to some, but not all," explains CafePress.com co-founder and CEO Fred Durham. "Unfortunately the program could not support higher volume without a new printing technology. Our number one request became our number one priority, and I am proud that today we make it a reality."

Starting today, CafePress.com Shopkeepers will be offered the tools and online training needed to begin designing black garments. Newly created items will be made available for sale over the next few weeks, beginning with a black t-shirt. Additional colored garments will roll out in the coming months.

"We faced three major obstacles with our new printing process for black garments. First, the new printing process had to be perfected in order to maintain the vibrancy and longevity of an image on black fabric. Second, we needed to develop a way for our users to prepare images for this new type of printing," adds Mahesh Jain Co-founder and VP of Business Development. "Lastly, we needed a process that could handle the volume our community demands. Now that we have jumped these hurdles we are going to step back and watch as our community amazes us with their continued drive to design new items. This is a true example of the spirit behind the CafePress.com community."

For more information on CafePress.com and Black T-shirts please visit www.cafepress.com.

About CafePress.com

CafePress.com is the leading online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. Launched in 1999, CafePress.com has empowered individuals, organizations and businesses to create buy and sell customized merchandise online using the company's unique print-on-demand and e-commerce services. Today, CafePress.com is a growing network of over 2 million members who have unleashed their creativity to transform their artwork and ideas into unique gifts and new revenue streams.

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