OREM, Utah (BUSINESS WIRE) Oct. 5, 2005 Q Comm International, Inc. (Amex: QMM; QMM.WS), a provider of prepaid transaction processing and electronic point-of-sale (POS) distribution solutions, today announced a contract with Check$mart to install the Q Xpress 200™ POS terminal at over 170 locations nationwide. Check$mart, based in Dublin, Ohio, operates 172 payday loan and check cashing stores throughout Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, Florida, Utah and Arizona. Q Comm expects to complete the store roll out in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Under the terms of the contact, Check$mart will be able to provide Q Comm’s suite of leading prepaid products to check cashing and payday loan customers, enhancing recurring customer traffic and adding value at the point of sale. Selling prepaid services on demand via the Q Xpress 200™ terminal allows Check$mart to avoid problems associated with traditional prepaid cards, such as theft, inventory costs and stock outages. Check$mart can also benefit from Q Comm’s online sales reporting tools, which provide employee-level sales reporting.

Michael Keough, President and Chief Executive Officer of Q Comm International, said «Today’s announcement reflects our concerted effort to expand Q Comm’s presence at leading retailers like Check$mart. We are particularly excited about partnering with an alternative financial products retailer, since our respective target audiences are the same.»

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Comprehensive HealthCare Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with A-1 Printing of Brooklyn, NY. A-1 Printing, one of the largest privately owned producers of prepaid telephone cards, prints approximately 100 million such cards per year.

The agreement authorizes A-1 Printing to attach Comprehensive’s discount prescription card -- as a free gift -- to approximately 10 million prepaid telephone cards distributed throughout the United States. The majority of prepaid telephone cards sold are used by people residing in the United States who still have family and friends in their countries of origin. A-1 Printing currently produces prepaid phone cards in a variety of foreign languages, marketing to individuals from such areas as Latin America, India, Pakistan, the Caribbean, and various other countries.

Paul Rothman, President of Comprehensive HealthCare Solutions, Inc. said, «We believe that this business alliance offers us the opportunity to put our competitive discount prescription card in the hands of ten million potential users, a vast majority of whom we believe are in large part either uninsured, underinsured or have no Rx coverage whatsoever. We believe that this could translate to a fairly high utilization rate and, in turn, would result in a potentially lucrative revenue stream that was not part of the Company’s original business model. This, added to our other contracts, makes our projected revenue growth for fiscal 2006–2007 look even brighter.»

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