Rockville, MD - Once again, IDEAL.com wins the coveted Distributor of the Year award from Contex Scanning Technology. This is the fifth year in a row and the seventh time that IDEAL has earned this award, having won in 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1994 and 1993. IDEAL's value-added sales philosophy contributes to their success. IDEAL features Contex scanners in total solutions for large format document management, editing, indexing, network scanning and scanning to the web. IDEAL solutions are applicable for the CAD, A/E/C, GIS, Color Graphics, and Reprographics markets. "We are excited about winning the Distributor of the Year award again this year. Our customers and resellers have contributed to our success and our focus continues to be on the large format scanning solutions our customers need to get the job done," states Jay Magenheim, president of IDEAL.com, located in Rockville, MD. "Our product development team is constantly on the lookout for the newest and best to offer our customers," continues Magenheim. "Our WiseImage Intelligent Raster Editing software, RasterID Intelligent Scanning, Indexing and Title Block Recognition Software, and IntraNETIX browser-based document management software make for an unbeatable combination that enables our customers to scan, index, edit and find their drawings with ease." IDEAL received the Distributor of the Year Award at Contex's annual distributor meeting held at the end of March 2002 in Hanover, Germany. Steen Borg, president of Contex Scanning Technology presented IDEAL's Jay Magenheim with the Distributor of the Year Award. 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.