MALVERN, Pa. – USA Technologies announced that Case Western Reserve University, a world-renowned private research center located in Cleveland, Ohio, was the latest in a growing list of universities to provide the e-Suds online laundry service to their residents this coming fall.

American Sales, Inc. (ASI), USA Technologies’ e-Suds distributor in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will provide e-Suds to Case Western Reserve University as part of their laundry service program. e-Suds will be integrated with the Universities’ Blackboard Transaction system allowing students to use their college ID cards to activate and pay for their wash. The system also allows students to go online to check the availability of washers and dryers from their computers and when the laundry is done, they are notified by e-mail, cell phone or PDA.

The announcement comes just weeks after Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the biggest universities in the Nation, announced it was installing e-Suds in 40 laundry rooms over the coming months. The e-Suds system is already installed or to be installed this summer at Carnegie Mellon, Cedarville University, Bluffton University and the University of Cincinnati.

“Word on just how efficient and convenient e-Suds is to operate is spreading through the laundry industry, thanks to its growing success on campus and coverage in the media,” said Stephen P. Herbert, President and COO, USA Technologies. “Colleges want it because it allows students to use their college identification cards both to activate and pay for the laundry service, and because the service is online, offering students more productive use of their time.”

“Case Western Reserve University is a new laundry account for us, and it was the ease and convenience features that the online e-Suds service offered that helped us with the account,” said David Drake, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, ASI, a USA Technologies e-Suds distributor. “e-Suds differentiates ASI from other laundry service operators, and it’s the higher level of service that comes with the unique online networking ability of e-Suds that’s helping us expand our business opportunities beyond our current partner group of over 50 higher education institutions.”

“We are incredibly excited about bringing to Case the latest in high tech products to improve the quality of life of our students,” said Don Kamalsky, Case’s Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs/Director of Housing. “Our goal is to provide the university with the highest level of service and convenience possible. The e-Suds laundry system is not only more efficient than other laundry systems we considered, but students enjoy using this technology, and it’s appropriate for the networked world students live in.”

While Case is a private research university, it works closely with Cleveland’s University Circle, including medicine, art, music, anthropology, social work, and entrepreneurship. www.case.edu.

ASI is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, and operates commercial coin and card activated laundries at colleges, universities, apartments, and other facilities throughout the Midwest. ASI has marketing agreements with Maytag and Mars Electronics International. www.asi-maytag.com.

USA Technologies also manufactures the e-Port, a wireless cashless transaction device for vending machines and unattended kiosks. And it offers an expanding line of EnergyMiser energy management products, specifically aimed at the vending and cooler markets.

About USA Technologies USA Technologies is a leader in the networking of distributed assets, wireless non-cash transactions, associated financial/network services and energy management. USA Technologies provides networked credit card and other non-cash systems in the vending, commercial laundry, hospitality and digital imaging industries. USA Technologies is an IBM Business Partner. The Company has marketing agreements with AT&T, Honeywell, MEI, Unilever and ZiLOG Corporation. For further information on USA Technologies, please visit www.usatech.com.