ANA Tech and JDL join forces

Business Wire, Nov 29, 1995

LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 1995--ANA Tech (an Intergraph Division) Wednesday announced that it has entered into a Business Partnering relationship with Japan Digital Laboratory (JDL) of Camarillo, Calif.

Under the terms of the relationship, JDL will resell ANA Tech s new SLI 3840 large format scanner as part of a system solution built around the JDL 4000E-II Engineering Document Plotter. The new configuration will be sold by both JDL s direct sales force and its authorized resellers as the Scan/Copy/Plot System.

ANA Tech and JDL are co-developing a custom Windows interface to link the scanner and plotter together into a configuration that is both user-friendly and production oriented. The user will be able to scale, rotate, annotate, specify scan parameters, and select file destination (including direct-to-plot) for a given document at the time of scan.

This streamlined approach to scan/plot is further enchanced by the system s ability to digitally archive any document at the user s request.

According to ANA Tech s Manager of Business Development, Glenn Coppelman, "The combination of the Eagle SLI 3840 and the 4000E-II provides users with a high quality, energetic performing system consisting of two proven, reliable components. The marriage of these products gives the marketplace a reasonably priced solution for fast scanning, fast plotting and digital archiving of large format drawings in a high volume environment."

JDL s Senior Manager, Bryan Doherty, says. "We feel certain that the SLI 3840 scanner as the input device to our 4000E-II plotter will stimulate market growth for scan-to-plot users. The 4000E-II is a remarkably fast plotter that delivers precision laser-quality plots in record time. The 4000E-II can receive, process, plot, cut and stack a 400 dpi E-size drawing on plain paper in less than one minute. Combined with the SLI 3840 s 15 second scan time for an E-size document, the system is a premier offering to the document imaging marketplace."

The ANA Tech Eagle SLI 3840 scanner was recently recognized by IMAGING magazine with its Editor s Choice Award in the large format scanning category. The JDL 4000E-II was also recently awarded the Highly Recommended rating by CADalyst Magazine in its large format plotter review.

ABOUT ANA TECH

Founded in 1981, ANA Tech was acquired by Intergraph in 1988. ANA Tech is a pioneer in the engineering and technical scanning marketplace and today offers a comprehensive line of high-resolution, large format scanners geared for volume production environments. ANA Tech hardware and software products are used in aerospace, automotive, AEC, manufacturing, mapping/GIS and utility applications at hundreds of sites worldwide.

CONTACT: ANA Tech, Littleton

Gerald Kasten, 303/973-6722

E-Mail jkasten@anatech.ingr.com