American Reprographics Company Announces Collaboration With HP to Provide Instant Printing and Wide-Format Printing Devices to PlanWell and On-Site Services Customers
WALNUT CREEK, CA--(Marketwire - May 14, 2008) - American Reprographics Company (NYSE: ARP), the nation's leading provider of reprographics services and
technology, today announced a marketing agreement with HP to offer HP's
Instant Printing technology and wide-format printing devices with PlanWell,
ARC's online document management solution for the AEC (architectural,
engineering and construction) market.
The companies will jointly promote the ability to download and print plans
from PlanWell Enterprise directly to HP wide-format printing devices in
customers' offices, or at any one of nearly 300 locations of American
Reprographics Company.
ARC specializes in document management, document distribution and logistics
and print-on-demand services throughout the construction industry. Project
document collections are made available for viewing and ordering via
PlanWell Enterprise and other proprietary web-based applications. The
company also provides on-site reprographics services to AEC customers of
all sizes throughout the country, frequently providing a printing device,
services and supplies on a pay-for-use basis.
"ARC, together with HP, can significantly increase overall productivity of
individuals as well as project teams with easy-to-use online document
management and printing capabilities," said K. "Suri" Suriyakumar,
president and CEO of American Reprographics Company. "By offering PlanWell
and HP Instant Printing technology with each HP device placed in a
customer's office, ARC can now offer more value and greater convenience to
AEC customers of all kinds and every size."
"HP is committed to providing a heightened level of professionalism,
dependability and productivity to AEC professionals," said Enrique Lores,
vice president and general manager, Large Format Printing Division, HP.
"Our collaboration with ARC furthers HP's Print 2.0 strategy to digitize
analog prints and broadens HP's presence in the technical market to better
meet customer needs."
About American Reprographics Company
American Reprographics Company is the leading reprographics company in the
United States providing business-to-business document management technology
and services to the architectural, engineering and construction, or AEC
industries. The Company provides these services to companies in non-AEC
industries, such as technology, financial services, retail, entertainment,
and food and hospitality, which also require sophisticated document
management services. American Reprographics Company provides its core
services through its suite of reprographics technology products, a network
of nearly 300 locally branded reprographics service centers across the
U.S., and on-site at more than 4,500 customer locations. The Company's
service centers are arranged in a hub and satellite structure and are
digitally connected as a cohesive network, allowing the provision of
services both locally and nationally to more than 140,000 active customers.
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