"Opening Doors" to the European Market; NewSoft Signs First International Distribution Agreement with Ingram Micro.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1997--NewSoft, Inc., a leader in image capturing software products, today announced a new international distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. , Inc., the world's largest wholesale distributor of microcomputer products. The agreement opens major distribution channels in the European market for NewSoft. "The distributorship with Ingram Micro is an important milestone for NewSoft. It marks our commitment to strengthen our foreign marketing efforts and satisfy the growing market demand for NewSoft products," says Joe Budelli, Vice President of Sales at NewSoft. "We are confident that Ingram Micro is the most strategic, opportune op·por·tune adj. 1. Suited or right for a particular purpose: an opportune place to make camp. 2. Occurring at a fitting or advantageous time: an opportune arrival. , and time-effective vehicle we can use to break into the European market." "Ingram Micro is pleased to announce the availability of NewSoft products to our European resellers," says Andy Aurthur, Vice President of Marketing at Ingram Micro. "NewSoft has a strong line of software products that will meet the demands of the European market. The addition of NewSoft products to the Ingram Micro product line will strengthen our position as a distributor of state-of-the art scanning and document/imaging management, multimedia, communications and Internet-related solutions." Under the current agreement, Ingram Micro will be the first international distributor to offer the complete line of NewSoft products to the European market. The first two products to be distributed by Ingram Micro will be NewSoft's Presto! PageManager Suite and Presto! Multimedia Suite. NewSoft's Presto! PageManager Suite is the first integrated scanning utility suite for personal document/imaging management that features NewSoft's award-winning "Scanning Operating System operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. (OS)" - Presto! PageManager. In addition to the "Scanning OS," that provides a link between any TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) A programming interface that lets a graphics application, such as an image editing program or desktop publishing program, activate a scanner, frame grabber or other image-capturing device. compliant scanner and desktop applications, Presto! PageManager Suite includes seven other applications including an electronic filing system, OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. software, color image A (digital) color image is a digital image that includes color information for each pixel. For visually acceptable results, it is necessary (and almost sufficient) to provide three samples (color channels editor, business card scanning software, electronic forms software, a color image transmission system and Kai's Power GOOTM SE. NewSoft's Presto! Multimedia Suite is an affordable, easy-to-use tool for image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. and desktop video. Designed for consumers and SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. users, this package includes five multimedia applications that allows users to easily turn their computer and home-video equipment into a powerful multimedia production system including desktop video/audio editing, CD playback, image editing and processing, and Kai's Power GOOTM SE, as well as over 400 royalty-free multimedia clips. NewSoft is located at 3353 Gateway Boulevard Gateway Boulevard is a major one-way street in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the Alberta provincial highway 2. It's a northbound road and it runs parallel with Calgary Trail, which is the southbound part of Highway 2. , Fremont, CA 94538. -0- Note to Editors: Fremont, California-based NewSoft, Inc. is a fully-owned subsidiary of UMAX Data Systems, Inc., based in Taipei, Taiwan. NewSoft develops, markets, and distributes a wide range of business software solutions, including scanning-related, document imaging and multimedia software. NewSoft's Presto! product line is currently bundled with scanners from Avision, Cannon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard Company, Mustek, Inc., ScanPaq, Silitek, and UMAX Technologies, Inc. Ingram Micro Inc., headquartered in Santa Ana Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif., is the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, with 1995 sales of $8.617 billion. Worldwide sales for the first two quarter of 1996 totaled $5.543 billion. The company distributes more than 36,000 products to over 100,000 resellers in 120 countries. CONTACT: NewSoft Inc. Sylvie Schmid, 510/661-4342 sylvies@tophat.com http://www.tophat.com |
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