IDEAL Maintains Position As Largest Contex Distributor

Wins Golden Scanner Award

Rockville, MD - IDEAL.com won the coveted Distributor of the Year award once again for Contex Scanning Technology. Previously, IDEAL earned Distributor of the Year for 2000, 1999, 1998, 1994 and 1993. IDEAL introduced the first Contex Scanner in 1989 at AutoFact and is Contex's largest distributor. IDEAL.com adds value to Contex scanners by offering customers total solutions such as Scan to CAD, Scan to Index, Scan to Print and Scan to the Web for the CAD, A/E/C, GIS, Color Graphics, and Reprographics markets. "We are excited about this award and believe our success is attributed to providing customers with more than just scanners," states Jay Magenheim, president of IDEAL.com located in Rockville, MD. " I would also like to thank our customers and resellers for their commitment to our products and solutions," continues Magenheim.

The evolution of the Internet has opened up new opportunities for IDEAL/Contex Scanners. Document management has moved to a new level. With IDEAL's IntraNETIX browser based software, companies have access to their large scanned documents anywhere they have a web browser. "As with all existing drawings and documents, first you have to scan them," continues Jay Magenheim. The success of IDEAL is built around providing scanning solutions that customers need.

IDEAL received the Distributor of the Year Award at Contex's annual distributor meeting held at the end of March 2001 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Steen Borg, president of Contex Scanning Technology presented IDEAL's Jay Magenheim with a miniature, golden replica of a Contex scanner. IDEAL and Contex have enjoyed a productive business relationship for many years and IDEAL's innovative and successful approach to selling scanners has, once again, made them Distributor of the Year.

IDEAL.com develops, markets, and supports a wide range of color and monochrome scanning solutions for large format drawings and technical documents including Scan to Web and Print from Web solutions. For more information on IDEAL's Distributor of the year award or IDEAL's products and services, please contact Kathy Magenheim at (301) 468-0123 ext.1230 or contact via email at kmagenheim@ideal.com.