IDEAL Is Contex Distributor of the Year

Maintains Position for Eighth Year in a Row

Rockville, MD, July 7, 2005 - Once again, IDEAL.com wins the coveted Distributor of the Year award from Contex Scanning Technology. This is the eighth year in a row and the ninth time that IDEAL has earned this award, having won in 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1994 and 1993. IDEAL's value-added sales philosophy contributes to their success. IDEAL features Contex large format scanners in scan-to-print solutions featuring the Seiko LP1010 printer, as well as solutions that offer easy and intuitive methods to scan drawing archives into an Online Planroom, index title blocks, search and retrieve drawings, quick view using a web browser and edit raster files as if they are vector. IDEAL solutions are applicable for the CAD, A/E/C, GIS, Color Graphics, and Reprographics markets.

"It's been another exciting year for IDEAL", says Jay Magenheim, president of IDEAL.com, located in Rockville, Maryland, and we're honored to be recognized again by Contex. If we have a secret to our success, it's a simple one - it's our customers. We provide our customers with the best scanning hardware and the best application software for the jobs they need to do; we offer our systems at the right price and we back up our products with customer support. Whether it's a simple scanning requirement for 100 drawings or an online planroom to manage 100,000 drawings, IDEAL has the system to do the job."

IDEAL received the Distributor of the Year Award at Contex's annual distributor meeting held in June 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal. 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 over a decade.

About IDEAL

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-print, Online Planrooms, indexing, archiving, editing and converting software.

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