Imaging Innovations (Pty) Ltd - Company Information

Distributors of Large Format Imaging and Educational

Hardware and Software Solutions in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa

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Imaging Innovations (Pty) Ltd

Imaging Innovations (Pty) Ltd (Imaging) is a South African company, established in November 1998, which provides both Digital Imaging Solutions to the Engineering and Digital Reprographics markets, as well as Group Learning Solutions to the Education and Training Markets.

Imaging acts as a focused distributor of Wide Format Monochrome and Colour Digital Imaging Solutions for the CAD/CAE, GIS, Mining, Municipal, Engineering and Digital Reprographics markets. These solutions, sourced from the market leaders in their respective areas, comprise wide format (25-54”) colour scanners from Contex A/S of Denmark, digitiser tablets from A4-A0+ size from GTCO Calcomp Corp, hybrid editing and vectorisation software from GTX Corp. Using these products sets, Imaging is able to provide complete archiving and wide format colour copying solutions for paper-based legacy and other company data. As the sole distributor for these principals for Sub-Saharan Africa, Imaging has a client base of some 350 clients covering Southern and Sub-Saharan Africa, with some 30% of current turnover being outside of South Africa. Sales occur via both dealer channels as well as direct sale where appropriate, with full technical support and maintenance being provided in all cases by Imaging

In 2001, Imaging investigated the then emerging market in the UK for whole class, cross curriculum educational tools using Interactive Whiteboards and identified Promethean Ltd of Blackburn as the future leader in this field. With their third generation digital boards, designed to withstand the rigours of the educational environment, and their flexible presentation software, the Promethean ACTIVboard/ACTIVstudio products are geared to the establishment of the Intelligent Classroom – and their growth over the past three years to Europe’s largest manufacturer is testimony to this fact. Current installations exceed 25 000 boards – and the receipt of the Queens Award for 2003 identifies their success.

Imaging secured a sole reseller relationship with Promethean at the end of 2002 and launched the product set in February 2003. To minimize the cost to the end user, the products are sold directly to the end-user – primary and secondary schools, tertiary education institutions and corporate organizations. In terms of schools, these include both state and independent schools. The Promethean Interactive solution allows Imaging to provide a solution to teachers, designed by teachers, and combines the old functionality of blackboards, overhead projectors and media resources into an exciting solution which will allow South Africa to bridge the Digital Divide, and develop both learners and educators, as well as in many cases providing the focus of a community learning center. To this extent, Imaging sees as part of its objectives, the securing of appropriate partnership relationships with Industry, NGO’s and Trusts, to assist in the implementation of mutually agreed projects in collaboration with regional education authorities.

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