Graphic Enterprises Inc. Forms Strategic Alliance with British Firm, Colortrac Ltd.

December 1, 2004 (North Canton, Ohio). Graphic Enterprises Inc., (GEI) a Visual Edge Technology Company, one of the leading worldwide value-added solutions providers in the graphics and wide format printing industry, announced today that they have entered into an agreement with Colortrac, Ltd., an international manufacturer of digital imaging scanners and software headquartered in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire UK. GEI immediately becomes the exclusive distributor of the Colortrac SmartLF line of innovative scanners, accessories and software options for all of North America.

“It was extremely important for Colortrac to find a leading provider of graphic imaging solutions in the US and Canada to launch our technologically advanced, SmartLF product line,” said Peter de Winter-Brown, Sales and Marketing Director, Colortrac LTD.”Our search criteria quickly pointed to Graphic Enterprises due to their integrated marketing expertise and broad-reaching, highly experienced sales and service support infrastructure. We are pleased to appoint them to this critical role in growing our international business.”

“On behalf of all of Graphic Enterprise’s 220 experienced professionals across North America, we are honored to be awarded this assignment and pleased to introduce this very affordable, groundbreaking scanner technology to our expanding customer base,” said Mark Lewis, President and CEO of Graphic Enterprises and its parent company, Visual Edge Technology. ”Creating this kind of partnering program with such a world-class manufacturer as Colortrac enhances our reputation of delivering outstanding products and superior service and support to our customers.”

SmartLF is created for fast, large format document scans and uses the latest digital imaging technology… highly reliable contact image sensors (CIS)… as found normally in small format flatbed desktop scanners. Colortrac has successfully combined several “deep focus” CIS devices to create a digital scanner capable of high speed, 2400 dpi input of very sharp, fine image details from originals up to 40” wide, in 24-bit color or black & white.

About Colortrac Ltd.

Colortrac is a British based company with facilities in Cambridgeshire UK, Beijing P.R. China and Denver, CO. As the manufacturer of SmartLF, Series4enhanced, Flatbed and Eagle scanners and software, they are dedicated to the development of digital image capture and image processing solutions for both color and monochrome applications including Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Engineering (CAD), Electronic Document Management, Facilities Management, graphic arts reproduction, architecture and construction. They are winners of the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement in1999. For more information visit www.colortrac.com

About Visual Edge Technology and its subsidiaries:
Visual Edge Technology, Inc. (VisualEdge), headquartered in North Canton, Ohio, was formed in California in 1986 as a developmental startup and repositioned in 1999 as a national marketer in the wide format solutions segment. Through strategic acquisitions including K&E Engineering Systems, which formed the core of VisualEdge’s business, the company grew to become one of the largest, wide format, value-added resellers in the market. VisualEdge acquired and integrated Graphic Enterprises of Ohio in February, 2004. This created two wholly-owned subsidiaries of Visual Edge Technology: Graphic Enterprises, Inc. and GEI CalGraph.
Graphic Enterprises Inc., (GEI), a Visual Edge Technology Company, based in North Canton, Ohio, was founded in 1970 has two product solutions divisions. The Office Solutions Division is a leading, Northeastern Ohio, value-added solutions provider that consists of over 70 dedicated sales and support personnel. The Office Solutions Division products include digital connected copiers, color copiers, printers, wide format copier/printers, and multifunctional systems sourced from Konica Minolta, Muratec, Kyocera-Mita, and Okidata. The Wide Format Solutions Division markets wide format solutions through a 100+ dealer network in North America. The Wide Format Division’s products include scanners, printers, analog & digital copiers, poster printing solutions, and networked controllers sourced from Kyocera-Mita, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, Ratio GmbH, Colortrac, and its own product development team.
GEI CalGraph, a Visual Edge Technology Company, based in North Canton, Ohio is a leading North American 3rd party service provider on behalf of leading solutions companies. Technologies serviced include scanners; thermal transfer, dye sublimation, inkjet and solvent printers; xerographic copier/printers; kiosks; and related network technology. GEI CalGraph North American operations include over 80 field technicians with on-site support, customer call center, depot center, worldwide parts distribution, installation, and training services.
More information about these companies can be found on www.geiworldwide.com and www.geicalgraph.com

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