ABT Named a 2026 ENX Elite Dealer for the Seventh Straight Year

Every October, ENX Magazine tells a short list of office technology dealers that they’ve been named Elite Dealers for the year. This year, for the seventh year running, ABT got that call. We first made the list in 2020 as Automated Business Products, and we’ve been on it every year since.

This one belongs to our people: the technicians, account managers, IT engineers and office staff in Centennial, Colorado Springs and Westminster who show up for our customers every day. And it belongs to those customers, who keep trusting a locally owned Colorado company with their offices. Thank you.

Below, we explain what the award is, how hard it is to earn, what ABT did in 2026 to earn it, and what it means if you’re choosing a copier, IT or security partner.

What the ENX Elite Dealer Award Is

ENX Magazine and its news site, The Week in Imaging, have covered the office technology industry since 1994. Its readers are the people who run copier and printer dealerships, managed print and managed IT providers, and the manufacturers that supply them. If you’ve never heard of it, that’s normal. It’s a trade magazine, and the Elite Dealer list is how the industry recognizes the dealers doing the best work.

The list is for independent dealers. According to ENX’s nomination page, dealers that have been bought by a larger company can’t enter on their own unless the parent company enters separately. That matters more every year, as more local dealers are rolled into national chains.

Here’s how the 2026 cycle worked:

ENX says the highlights in each profile “illustrate why we believe companies are Elite.” Those highlights fall into four areas:

How Rare It Is

The Elite list names a little over a hundred dealers for the whole country. The 2025 list had 116, and ENX says the list averages about 2.5 honorees per state in the mainland U.S.

Dealers also have to earn it again every year. There’s no lifetime membership. Each nomination is judged on that year’s results, so a long streak points to a dealer that keeps improving, not one that peaked once.

Seven Years on the List

Our streak started in 2020, the year offices emptied overnight and every business had to rethink how it printed, shared files and stayed connected. By 2022 we were on the list under our new name, Automated Business Technologies. Here’s the full run, with the headline ENX gave each year’s list:

Our ENX Elite Dealer badges, 2023 to 2026.

We wrote about the 2022 Industry Icons honor and what the 2023 award meant to our team at the time.

What Set ABT Apart in 2026

We started in 2005 as a copier and printer dealer and celebrated 20 years last fall. Copiers, printers and managed print are still the heart of what we do. But more and more, customers ask the same team to take care of their IT, security and phones too. Most of what we did in 2026 came back to that.

A Third Colorado Office

This year we opened our North Branch in Westminster to serve Westminster, Broomfield and Northern Colorado. Customers north of Denver now have an ABT team close by, alongside our offices in Centennial and Colorado Springs. Closer teams mean shorter drives and faster help when something breaks.

ABT’s North Branch in Westminster.

Managed IT on the Cover of ENX

Plenty of copier dealers say they do IT. We built a real managed IT services practice, with our own helpdesk and cybersecurity services, so customers can get their print and their IT from one Colorado team. ENX noticed. Three members of our team were on the cover of its September 2025 issue, in a feature on how we built managed IT alongside print.

ABT on the cover of ENX Magazine, September 2025.

Helping Customers Get Ahead of AI

AI came up in almost every customer conversation this year, usually as a question: what are my employees putting into these tools? In October we co-hosted a free AI security webinar with FireTail on finding shadow AI, the AI tools employees use without IT knowing.

We also put AI to work for customers. In October we added Dialpad, an AI-powered phone and contact center platform, to our VoIP lineup. And we kept installing Verkada cloud access control and security cameras, whose AI search helps customers find what they need in hours of video.

Kyocera’s Top Partner Tier

Industry awards are one of the things ENX weighs. In September, Kyocera named us an Elevate FY27 Platinum Partner, its highest dealer tier, for sales performance, service and customer satisfaction. It caps more than 20 years as a Kyocera dealer, and it means our customers get priority pricing, faster parts and direct access to Kyocera’s newest equipment.

ABT’s Brad Stisser (VP of Sales) and Andy Archer with James Meyers of Kyocera.

Giving Back Where We Work

Charitable work is another. Giving back has been part of ABT for a long time. Our team has unloaded truckloads of food with the Centennial Faith Council, donated thousands of backpacks to kids in need, and supported local groups like Hope Online and Escuela de Guadalupe. You can read more in ABT Cares.

Why It Matters When You Choose a Dealer

An award doesn’t fix a jammed copier. But the things ENX looks at are the same things you should ask about before you sign with any copier, IT or security provider. Here’s a short checklist, and how we answer it.

Watch for our profile in the December 2026 issue of ENX. And if you’re one of our customers, thank you again for seven great years.

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