A Printing Background

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 storefront system takes jobs from the client's desktop to the print service provider’s (PSP) output devices.

PagePath Technologies was founded by Gregory Witek to assist Fortune 500 in-house PSPs 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.

PagePath's network developers are experts at connecting the customer to the print service provider and multiple PSPs 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 has always been hallmarks of our company.

PagePath was instrumental in some of the earliest web-to-print systems, 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.

In 1995, PagePath developed LAUNCH!, the leading suite of file transfer software for the printing industry. The LAUNCH! family of products enabled PSPs 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.