GEI WideFormat Expands Business Alliance with Danish Firm Techsage

 

North Canton, Ohio, February 1, 2008.   Mr. Roger Ilgen, Vice President and General Manager of GEI WideFormat, a Visual Edge Technology Company, announced today that they have entered into a strategic agreement with Techsage ApS, an international manufacturer of digital imaging products headquartered in Denmark. GEI immediately becomes the master distributor of the Techsage SpinJet line of double-sided printing accessories, SpinPaper media and SpinFlow software for all of North America.

 

“We are extremely pleased to appoint GEI WideFormat to this critical role in growing our imposition proofing business as well as giving them the exclusive responsibility to launch our innovative SpinJet solutions for the double-sided signage market,” said Erik Kasper, Techsage Director. ”We’ve enjoyed and experienced a tremendous professional relationship for over five years as GEI serviced and supported Techsage products in the USA and Canada. We’re excited to expand our alliance with GEI WideFormat and now utilize their integrated marketing expertise and broad-reaching, highly experienced sales organization to grow our SpinJet business.”

 

“Being selected as the sales, service and marketing partner of such an innovative, world-class manufacturer as Techsage is a great honor and we are eager to begin delivering these outstanding products, superior service and professional support to all existing customers and new accounts,” said Mr. Ilgen. “The proofing industry is well-aware of the spectacular quality and attention to detail that Techsage delivers and now the signage industry will experience the valuable and productive advantages of SpinJet as the double-sided printing solution. We’ll be featuring the Techsage SpinJet in our booth at ISA SignExpo. ”

 

SpinJet is an add-on device that is presently customized for several Hewlett-Packard DesignJet large format printers which enables fully automatic roll-to-sheet double-sided imposition proofing and double-sided printing of banners, signs and posters. It is the only product of its kind currently available for any printer and dramatically reduces production time and materials cost.

 

 

 

 About GEI WideFormat:

GEI WideFormat Solutions, a Visual Edge Technology Company, markets equipment, software and supplies through a 100+ dealer network in North America. GEI Wide Format products include scanners, printers, analog & digital copiers, poster printing solutions, and networked controllers sourced from Canon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Mutoh, Ricoh, Ratio GmbH, Colortrac, and its own product development team. It is the master distributor for the SmartLF line of scanners from Colortrac Ltd and is responsible for the sales and marketing of this innovative range of products in North America. www.geiwideformat.com

 

About TechSage:

Techsage was founded in 1999 to create new concepts and solutions for strategic areas of the prepress workflow. In November 2000, delivery of SpinJet 1000 for the HP DesignJet 1000 series commenced. The SpinJet system quickly became the market leader for fully automatic double-sided proofing and now has more than 2000 installations world-wide. For further information contact Erik Kasper, Director ek@techsage.dk

www.spinjet.com

 

About Visual Edge Technology:

Visual Edge Technology, Inc. (VisualEdge), headquartered in North Canton, Ohio, is a successful acquirer of imaging technology businesses and office solutions companies. VisualEdge acquired and integrated Graphic Enterprises of Ohio in February, 2004 which created two wholly-owned subsidiaries of Visual Edge Technology, Graphic Enterprises Office Solutions Inc. and GEI CalGraph, a third party service provider to the wide format imaging industry. GEI WideFormat Solutions is a business group specializing in large format equipment, software and supplies sales.  In 2005, VisualEdge acquired Copeco, Inc., a digital document and workflow solutions company expanding throughout northeast Ohio.

VisualEdge seeks to acquire well-managed companies that are leaders in their local markets across North America. VisualEdge provides these companies increased purchasing power, access to working capital to accelerate their efforts to capture market share and an opportunity to share in the ownership and growth opportunities of a significantly larger enterprise while retaining local control and marketplace identity.

Investor or Solutions Companies seeking additional information about

Visual Edge Technology Inc. please contact:

Michael Brigner, Corporate Vice President, Operations/Acquisitions at (513)300-6844

www.visualedge.com

 

 

 

 

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