QUESTRA JOINS XIONICS DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS PROGRAM

Company Enhances Ongoing Effort to Provide Its Customers with Easy Access
to Advanced Integration and Customization Services; Questra Joins Program

BURLINGTON, MASS. -- JANUARY 22, 1996 -- Xionics Document Technologies,
Inc. today announced that Questra Consulting, headquartered in Rochester,
New York, has joined the company's Development Partners Program. Questra
is a leading software and hardware design engineering firm that
specializes in the development of electronic imaging products. By
providing quality external development and project management support,
Questra allows printer and other peripheral manufacturers to concentrate
on the true value-add they bring to a product.

XIONICS DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS PROGRAM PROVIDES ENGINEERING SERVICES

Xionics' Development Partners Program provides its customers -- printer and
other peripheral manufacturers -- with access to expert engineering
services for integrating Xionics' Intelligent Printing System (IPS) with
their embedded peripheral controller systems. IPS is comprised of
worldclass PCL and PostScript printer language emulations. These printer
language software solutions are licensed to major OEM manufacturers of
printers, scanners, copiers, facsimiles and multifunction peripherals.

PARTNERS OFFER OEMS COST-EFFECTIVE, TURNKEY CONTROLLER DEVELOPMENT

With this program, peripheral manufacturers can now work directly with
Questra and other Xionics authorized partners. Development partners are
certified and experienced in PCL and PostScript software integration and
offer cost-effective, turnkey development at a fixed cost.

"This program allows us to leverage external development partners to aid
our customers in the integration and customization of Xionics' IPS into
their products," said Fred Ellis, Xionics director of multifunction
product development. "This service is focused on providing OEMs with
advanced engineering services needed to facilitate their development
efforts," added Ellis.

"Questra provides companies such as Xionics and their OEMs the flexibility
to focus on their core competencies while allowing Questra to provide the
necessary product software development and integration. By providing these
co-development services, our customers will be able to focus on the
enhancement of the product's features and capabilities," said Peter
Hessney, Questra executive vice president of business development.
"Questra specializes in the timely development and integration of complex
software systems, providing OEMs a competitive advantage in the printing
and multifunction peripheral market where short product life cycles and
rapid time-to-market translates to revenue and higher profits. Questra is
excited about broadening its relationship with Xionics -- as together we
will provide OEMs superior technologies that are necessary to exist in
today's tough business environment," added Hessney.

Xionics Document Technologies is a leading provider of integrated software
and silicon technology to enable the high-speed capture, processing,
printing, copying and display of complex electronic documents in
single-purpose and multifunction computer peripherals.

Xionics Document Technologies was formed in November 1994 by the merger of
the Peripherals Division of Phoenix Technologies Ltd. and Xionics Inc.
Privately held, the Company's corporate headquarters is based in
Burlington, Massachusetts with offices in Japan, Germany and the United
Kingdom.
 
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