Quality Imaging Products Successfully Opens East Coast Distribution Facility

December 1, 2002 - Lake Forest, CA - (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Quality Imaging Products, www.qip.net, a worldwide leader in toner and inkjet cartridge manufacturing, is pleased to announce the opening of an East Coast Distribution facility.  Martin Stein, QIP’s President, commented, “QIP has been serving a national base of customers for over 10 years.  We are pleased that we can now provide product to our loyal customers on the East Coast and in the Midwest faster than ever before.  Our Pennsylvania location enables us to reach much of New England, the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Midwest with next day or second-day delivery.  Combined with our existing distribution facility in Lake Forest, California, we now feel that we offer customers even better service capabilities.”

In addition to reduced shipping times, East Coast customers shipping costs should be reduced making QIP’s high quality cartridges even more competitive with remanufacturers east of the Mississippi.

The East Coast facility stocks QIP’s entire line of over 200 toner cartridges.  QIP also offers private label and blind-drop shipping capabilities from its East Coast distribution facility.

Quality Imaging Products is a worldwide leader in imaging solutions. Customers look to QIP to provide them with high quality, environmentally friendly, low-cost solutions to their imaging needs. QIP's largest market is North America where it sells primarily through wholesalers, office products dealers, OEMs, computer products dealers, and printer service technicians.

QIP manufactures over 500,000 cartridges per year and employs 160 associates at its 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility in Lake Forest, California. QIP currently offers over 100 different product lines.  For more information on Quality Imaging Products, visit www.qip.net or call (800) 423-8600.

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