BOSTON, MA -- - Digital Art Exchange, Inc. (DAX), the first managed Internet and application service provider for the graphic communications industry and creator of PrintPlanet.com, today announced the addition of the Shopping Galaxy to the PrintPlanet.com eCommunities for the graphic arts industry web site. As the premier eCommunity site for the industry, PrintPlanet.com created the Shopping Galaxy to offer its subscribers a focused, intelligent selection of graphic arts-specific products and supplies from well-known, trusted industry vendors who become Shopping Galaxy distribution partners through strategic alliances with PrintPlanet.com. The PrintPlanet.com Shopping Galaxy will offer a unique opportunity for subscribers to browse through the different "stores" for items of interest, perhaps even products that they may have heard about or discussed on one of the PrintPlanet.com forums. Subscribers will be able to search the entire "galaxy" of stores for a specific vendor, a specific product, or both, then review those products, and finally purchase the items at a competitive cost, all without ever having to leave the PrintPlanet.com web site. In the future, those vendors who become PrintPlanet.com strategic distribution partners will be able to offer their own variety of products to the web site's 25,000 targeted subscribers. The Printer's Bookshop, was launched using CrossCommerce's technology. A provider of e-commerce infrastructure and web-based applications, San Francisco-based CrossCommerce allows clients, such as PrintPlanet.com, to seamlessly offer industry-specific merchandise that directly correlates with their client's web site content. In developing the Shopping Galaxy concept, PrintPlanet.com is recruiting strategic distribution partners for the next round of "stores" planned for the web site. The inaugural PrintPlanet.com distribution partner is Graphic Arts Supplies.com, Inc., a Tustin, CA-based "Graphic Arts Superstore," offering a huge Internet presence to printers and other industry professionals who are searching for everything from major ink, paper and film brands to obscure, hard-to-find printing and press accessories. As the first Shopping Galaxy distribution partner, Graphic Arts Supplies.com, Inc. will debut on PrintPlanet.com when the next stores in the galaxy are launched. "Graphic Arts Supplies.com is excited to launch this venture with DAX," said David Harlan, Vice President of Graphic Arts Supplies.com. "We are certain that printing professionals will appreciate the large selection offered to run their businesses, as well as enjoy the benefits of the Internet to procure supplies and services. The quality information supplied by DAX and the products offered by Graphic Arts Supplies.com make this a natural fit."