Purchase, NY, February 1, 2012 -- IPTLOCK, a New York-based company focused on innovative file protection technologies, has entered into a distribution agreement with Sign Biz, Inc., an international sign industry developer. Together with IPTLOCK, they will continue to expand the distribution of the IPTLOCK® product line into the sign industry channel.

“A stranger emails you demanding you send him your computer by tomorrow. He promises to pay you in 30 days. Would you do it? Though you might laugh, creatives do this every day,” said Joan Schekter, executive vice president of club services for the American Advertising Federation. Actually, it’s worse than that, creatives of all types, illustrators, graphic designers, photographers… give away their livelihood to strangers every day by email on a promise!”

"IPTLOCK IS A GAME CHANGER"

“Sign industry professionals are no exception. Designs are produced in the hopes of landing that good account. Too often, all of the research and design work become part of a competitor’s sale. IPTLOCK is a game-changer,” says Teresa M. Young, President/ CEO, Sign Biz, Inc.

The cloud-based application started out of need and a simple idea. “We wanted to make sure prospects couldn’t use our pitch work without permission and that we could get timely feedback from existing clients.” says Gary Blum (pictured, left), the president and chief creative officer of TLG7, a boutique ad agency based in Purchase, New York that developed IPTLOCK. “As an ad agency, once we sent a proof, file or concept by email to a prospect or client, we lost all control of our work. We had to call and because our clients had other priorities, they often had to be urged on multiple occasions to print out the file, make their comments and have someone fax back the changes,” says Gary. “Even worse, we couldn’t tell if our files were being shared with others or saved for later use.”

Unique Features
If you can use a mouse button and click on a virtual remote, you can set your files to be viewed only by one party, on one computer. You can prevent sharing, printing, forwarding, or any other leak of your designs. Files such as your proofs, proposals, and more (the service supports PPT, PNG, DOC, XLS, PDF, TXT, MP3, and JPG), up to 20 MB, are easily viewed from a link that you send to your chosen recipient. There are a number of extremely useful features that improve business communications as well, including Instant Collaboration.

A Trade Rate discount code is available as for free, as an immediate download for those in the sign industry who register for the code at www.SchoolofSignArts.com/shop.

Both a complete product review as well as a to the trade sign industry discount off of list price is available through the School of Sign Arts website. By registering for the free code, a PDF with the discount code as well as easy instructions for accessing the product are sent via email. In addition, a free trial use is available. Users can cancel at any time.

See product review at the School of Sign Arts website: IPTLOCK Review

“We are excited about this new product from IPTLOCK,” says Kevin Farrell, Vice President, AD/S, a California-based national manufacturer of custom sign products. “It is worth far more than the subscription rate for my peace of mind. I’ve been burned enough times by would-be clients who took our designs and had them built by someone else. “If you can click a button on a virtual remote, you can protect your art, images, designs, and proofs – for a very small price, on any plan – single use, monthly or annual. The individual who sends the file can specify no forwarding, no sharing, no copies, and no printing – or any combination of parameters.”

Blum adds, "“We are excited to enter into an agreement with Sign Biz, Inc. to distribute our IPTLOCK product line throughout North America. With an excellent reputation as a provider of first class products and education services, we believe that we will be able to work together to strongly position IPTLOCK in the visual communications industry and effectively improve the proposal and proofing process for sign professionals from coast to coast.”

At www.schoolofsignarts.com and at the developer’s site, www.iptlock.com, FAQs and videos explain the methods in which IPTLOCK allows users to easily create unique and protected presentation and two-way review of any file. The product is easy to use, protects nearly every file type and allows real-time communication and /or commenting between client and sign manufacturer. The product launches at special rates to the sign industry on January 30th, with the discount rate code available only through the School of Sign Arts and select sign suppliers.