Epson Partners With Cranel Imaging for Document Scanner Distribution Agreement

LONG BEACH, Calif., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Epson America, a leading provider of exceptional performing business solutions, today announced an agreement with Cranel Imaging to distribute Epson's line of business document scanners. Through this agreement, document imaging specialist value added resellers (VARs) will now have access to Epson's complete line-up of document imaging scanners. This partnership not only strengthens Cranel Imaging's line of distributed scanning options but also enhances the availability of Epson's scanners to professional document imaging VARs, helping to create a wider range of solutions to meet customers' needs.

"Cranel Imaging is highly regarded in the specialist VAR community and Epson is proud to enter into this agreement," said Mark Pickard, senior product manager, Document Scanners, Epson America, Inc. "As Epson continues its rapid growth in the business document scanner segment, this is a natural partnership and we look forward to working together to offer VARs products that will streamline business and fall directly in line with customer requirements."

Cranel Imaging provides a supportive and tailored distribution model for VARs, offering a solid technology portfolio, product and business expertise and services, and more. With years of specialized experience in the document imaging industry, and more than 15 vendors offered within its portfolio, Cranel Imaging has become the trusted source for specialist VARs.

"At Cranel Imaging, we consider ourselves VAR advocates, providing products and services that will help clients advance their business," said Cranel Vice President Scott Slack. "In partnering with Epson, we are strengthening our line of distributed scanning options, allowing us to provide a wide range of solutions for VARs to better equip their customers as technology requirements change."

The corporate scanning market continues to shift, with organizations moving from large, centralized scanners to desktop scanners distributed throughout individual workgroups, which creates significant improvements in efficiency and workflow. Through this partnership, Epson's top-of-the line products – from the EPSON® WorkForce® Pro GT-S80 and best-selling EPSON WorkForce Pro GT-S50 sheet-fed scanners to the recently announced EPSON WorkForce DS-30 portable document scanner – are more readily available to the professional document imaging VARs, allowing them to offer a wider range of products and become even more invaluable to customers.  

Availability

Epson's line of document scanning solutions is currently available to specialist VARs through the Cranel Imaging website. 

About Cranel Imaging

Cranel Imaging brings a unique distribution experience to enterprise content management (ECM) VARs, bringing the ability to offer their customers comprehensive, integrated products and solutions tailored to their specific requirements. Cranel Imaging offers broad and deep inventories of products and supplies from industry leading supply chain partners, including capture hardware and software technologies. To learn more about Cranel Imaging, please visit: www.cranelimaging.com.

About Epson

Epson is a global imaging and innovation leader dedicated to exceeding the vision of customers worldwide through its compact, energy-saving, high-precision technologies, with a product line-up ranging from printers and 3LCD projectors for enterprise and the home, to sensors and other microdevices. Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group comprises more than 78,000 employees in 99 companies around the world, and is proud of its ongoing contributions to the global environment and the communities in which it operates. To learn more about Epson, please visit: http://global.epson.com.

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SOURCE Epson America