LexJet Corporation Revenue and Competitors

The LexJet Corporation, founded in early 1994, provides complete digital color output solutions for customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida with distribution facilities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Reno, Nevada; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; and Wilmington, Delaware. Lexjet was started in Sarasota, Florida by Ron Simkins and Art Lambert. These two senior executives from the computer industry formed the company with one goal in mind - to offer the wide format printing community proven solutions and sound technical support as an alternative to the inadequate support common in the newest segment of the computer industry - the wide format printing community. As a precursor to Lexjet, Simkins and Lambert were early users of wide format technology in one of their unrelated corporations. It became quickly apparent that the industry leaders of the time were ill prepared to provide proven solutions and products to cover the wide gamut of applications that were being rapidly uncovered by this new industry. By placing ads in sign related publications and selling their ink jet coated polycarbonate directly to other professionals, they helped pioneer the new industry's first and truly innovative film product, LexJet Clear. During the first two years of business, the business partners concentrated on providing technical support and additional unique film based products for the wide format community. In 1996, Simkins and Lambert recognized that the demand for sound solutions for the professional community continued to far outstrip the ability and knowledge of any single printer manufacturer or material supplier's capabilities. With that in mind, they set out to capitalize on their computer industry background and began to create internal computer systems that would track and compare problems vs. solutions for the wide variations in hardware, software, inks, laminators and materials being purchased by the professional. The only way to collect and compile the vast amounts of data required to identify compatibility problems and new applications was to develop a direct relationship with the technically sophisticated users. With the launch of its direct approach, Lexjet flourished and the company began to earn numerous solution awards. In 1997, the LexJet Corporation was selected for nomination of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award and in 1998 it was identified as one of the fastest growing companies in the state of Florida. In the year 2001 LexJet was Ranked #48 on the INC Magazine list of fastest growing private companies in America and also listed as the 48th Fastest Growing Technology Related Company in North America by Deloitte & Touche. Recognizing that the photographic industry was about to undergo a dramatic transition from a mature chemical photographic industry to a new digital format industry, LexJet began in 2001 to expand into the digital photographic community setting standards and preparing solutions for photographers and graphic artists worldwide who would soon be struggling with the complexities of digital color output. Today, LexJet is recognized throughout the wide format community and digital photographic/imaging output industry as the premier leader in providing education and sound product solutions for those professionals engaged in the production and output of digital color images.