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New ASP Offering
Stepping into the Application Service Provider (ASP) ring this year is IKON with its new offering, Digital Express 2000. Although scheduled for delivery in January, early adopters include iPrint, an online print shop, and Fatbrain.com, a Web-based corporate information management company. Digital Express will provides printers a way to offer their customers the ability to acquire, store, query, retrieve, manage, manipulate and display digital images and documents. Digital Express also offers printers access to IKON's network of digital print production hubs or any other third-party printing resources, to facilitate distribute-and-print capability for geographically dispersed customers. At the same time, printers can maintain direct relationships with print buyers though the private label feature. Printers will be able to blend Digital Express options with the look of their existing Websites.