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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

       SUNPICS INTRODUCES "PRINTER'S  PALETTE" AT SEYBOLD
   
SunFLASH Vol 34 #3					        October 1991 
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   One-Stop Shopping for Sun and Third-Party Printing Products

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--October 2, 1991--SunPics, a Sun Microsystems,
Inc., business, today introduced Volume One of The Printer's
Palette(TM) CD product containing more than 170 hardware and software
products from third-party vendors for use in the company's open network
printing environment. The Printer's Palette CD makes it easy for users
to explore, purchase and install PostScript(R) printing products from
third-party vendors.

Volume One of the Printer's Palette CD includes more than 20 printers
and plotters, 600 F3(TM) fonts, typefaces, file format conversion
software, Macintosh(R) computer printing software, and NeWSprint
printing services. Complete product information-and often the product
itself-is included on the CD, and the products are organized by
category to make comparison shopping easy. Many software products on
the Printer's Palette CD are offered free of charge and can be
installed directly from the CD onto the user's system; software
products for sale can be purchased with a call to the vendor, who
supplies a password to unlock the product.

"The Printer's Palette CD dramatically increases customers' options as
they custom-tailor their printing solutions," said William Marr, vice
president and general manager of SunPics. "With Printer's Palette, we
are expanding NeWSprint software to address the diverse needs of the
enterprise-wide computing environment."
 
Open printing is a new approach to printing in which page image
processing is performed by the CPU of a SPARC(R) workstation rather
than by the printer's CPU. This approach enables almost any output
device--from dot matrix, ink jet and laser printers to color thermal
printers and plotters--to produce high-quality PostScript output quickly
and inexpensively. The cornerstone of open network printing is
NeWSprint software, an innovative page-imaging software product that in
effect makes printers full network citizens, enabling them to be shared
not only within local workgroups but throughout an organization.
NeWSprint software, combined with high-speed printers such as SunPics'
SPARCprinter(TM) system, provides the basic foundation of the open
printing model. The products included in the Printer's Palette CD
enable customers to build on that foundation. Customers can quickly and
easily add third-party printers and other printing tools.

The Printer's Palette CD will be available beginning November 4, 1991.
The product will be bundled with a future version of NeWSprint
software, or is available through local Sun sales offices, value-added
resellers and distributors. To use the Printer's Palette CD, customers
need a SPARCstation(TM) system running the SunOS(TM) system (4.1 or
higher) and the OpenWindows(R) environment (2.0 or 3.0), and a
SunCD(TM) drive (either attached or networked). The products on the
Printer's Palette CD will be supported by the companies that supplied
them.

SunPics was formed on July 1, 1991 as a Sun Microsystems business
dedicated to providing and promoting technology for the printing and
imaging marketplace. Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain
View, Calif., is a leading worldwide supplier of network-based
distributed computing solutions, including professional workstations,
servers and UNIX(R) operating system and productivity software.


PR contacts:
	SunPics
	Erica Vener (415) 336-3566

	Hi-Tech Public Relations
	Lisa Sheeran (415) 864-5600

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