Double Black Imaging expands sales staff

Double Black Imaging has added five new regional sales managers across the United States.

 The regions and respective sales managers are:
  •  Southeastern - Jim Farley
  •  Western - Greg White
  •  Midwest - Tom Thuresson
  •  South Central - Dennis Mash
  •  New England - Rob Nekoroski
Double Black distributes and services WIDE LCD systems, RealVision graphic controllers, Image Smiths VeriLUM calibration package and Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging computed radiography (CR) and film digitizers.

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