PagePath Technologies, Inc. - Inside PagePath: Company Background

"Many of our customers have looked into several 'dot-com' companies but they didn't want to take the risk. PagePath has been helping printshops since 1983."

Since its inception in 1983, PagePath has continued to develop products that simplify the transfer of computer-generated printing jobs. Today, an easy to use "point and click" process takes jobs from the client's desktop to output on printing and publishing systems including the Konica, Oce, Xerox, and Indigo digital color printers, and even color copiers.

Printshop Management
PagePath Technologies was founded by Gregory Witek to assist Fortune 500 in-house printshops with forms management; tracking jobs through the production process; and integrating production data with legacy accounting and billing systems. This work soon grew to include planning and installation of network infrastructure as well as connecting some of the very first Xerox DocuTech and Kodak Lionheart digital presses.

Connecting Printshops to Each Other
PagePath's network developers are experts at connecting the customer to the printshop and multiple printshops to each other. For example, we designed, built, and operated the national Wide Area Network for the 12 MetLife printing facilities. Ease of use, speed and reliability at an affordable price have always been hallmarks of our company.

Connecting Customers to Printshops
PagePath was instrumental in some of the earliest print-on-demand initiatives, including designing, building and operating the technical center for WEPN, the Worldwide Electronic Publishing Network owned by 35 large quick printers. The network was built to scale from slow dial-up connections all the way to T1 lines. It utilized the first commercial version of Eudora e-mail as well as the first version of Netscape. Both were revolutionary for their time.

File Transfer Before the Internet
In 1995, PagePath developed LAUNCH!, the leading suite of file transfer software for the printing industry. The LAUNCH! family of products enabled printshops to receive job files from customers modem-to-modem, over the Internet using FTP, or via a private network. The ASAP! file transfer software was added in 1998.






1983 Founded 1984 CFMS 1985 FORMANAGER 1989 IRMACS / CHELSI 1990 FormTrieve for Xerox 1993 PageLink 1994 WEPN 1995 PagePath's Web site 1996 LAUNCH! FTP 1998 ASAP! with LAUNCH! 1999 MyOrderDesk Basic 2000 PDF2u Introduced 2000 Performance pkg. 2000 Premier pkg. 2001 Trial pkg. 2001 Basic pkg. 2001 Professional pkg. 2001 Advanced pkg. 2001 Extended pkg. 2002 Custom Messaging Added 2003 QwikPrice Module Released 2003 Product of the Year 2004 DocMart Developed 2004 PowerQuote Alliance 2004 SoftUse Joint Project 2005 ICED Partnership 2005 QwikCharge Released 2006 One Million Jobs Processed