Quantum Digital

Quantum Digital

QuantumDigital, Inc., is a company based in Austin, Texas. It was originally founded in 1986 as Quantum Systems. QuantumDigital was one of the first companies in the U.S. to launch an electronic ordering system, called Q-Direct, for the direct mail industry. The Q-Direct client software was distributed on physical CD-ROM media. Orders were placed via modem connection from the customer's computer to the company's server.

The company was founded by Jim Damman. Initially, Damman used a dot matrix printer and sheets of offset-printed card stock to meet the direct mail needs of real estate professionals, having held a career in real estate himself for several years. Steve Damman, Jim Damman's son and current President/CEO, joined the company in 1992. The dot matrix printer was subsequently replaced by laser printers. In addition to its flagship product—a "Jumbo" postcard—the company offered a specialized business-reply mailer format to a few of its customers, including its highest-volume customer at the time, Weichert Realtors.

The company's Jumbo postcard, or "Quantumcard" as it came to be known, featured a real estate agent's photo, company logo, contact information and a brief message on the address side of the card. Quantumcards could be mailed to almost any residential address in the United States, either from a customer-provided mailing list or a list generated by the company, which could then be further refined to mail to a single street, a neighborhood area or an entire zip code as specified by the customer.