Tektronix Pushes Ease-of-Use and Low Cost of Operation With Its New Phaser
550 Color Laser Printer

Tektronix, Inc. announced the Phaser 550 desktop color laser printer, the
industry's fastest at nearly 5 pages per minute (ppm) in full color and 14
ppm in monochrome. It is also the first color laser printer capable of
printing at a full 1200 by 1200 dpi. The Phaser 550 color printer includes
genuine Adobe PostScript Level 2 software, the industry standard page
description language for multi-platform network printing.

The Phaser 550 color printer is designed for workgroup environments where
high capacities, speed and robustness are required. In today's networked
world, people increasingly are sharing information by distributing
documents to others. These documents often contain color information and
require a workgroup color printer for final output.

The Phaser 550 color printer joins Tektronix' Phaser 340 solid ink color
printer as a value leader in laser-class color printers. The Phaser 550
color printer is designed for businesses that require high volume of color
plus black and white printing. According to InfoCorp's Storeboard,
Tektronix is the market leader in the color laser-class market.

The Phaser 550 color printer is the first color printer to utilize World
Wide

Web technology to provide quick and easy printer management and information
access for those using a network. Rather than installing another
proprietary software interface to learn and run on their computers, users
need only a standard Web browser readily available for any platform.

PhaserLink software provides status information about the printer,
including job status, toner levels and paper-out warnings. Network
managers can also change password-protected internal printer settings and
retrieve print job tracking records. In addition, it contains links to
Tektronix' World Wide Web site and has the option to be linked to internal
Web pages maintained by companies on their local networks.

The Phaser 550 color printer is easier to maintain and requires far fewer
user interventions than competitive products. Its toner cartridges are
double the capacity of the leading competitor. The cyan, magenta and
yellow cartridges can produce 8,000 pages of output while the black
cartridge can produce 10,000 pages. Its one standard and two optional
paper trays each hold 250 sheets. Both PhaserLink and Tektronix'
PhaserShare network administration software make it easy to integrate and
manage the Phaser 550 in a network environment.

The Phaser 550 color printer uses a 32 MHz AMD 29040 processor with a
memory compression co-processor for accelerated throughput. It comes
standard with plug and play bi-directional parallel port, SCSI port for
Tektronix' optional Phaser Copystation or external hard disk. Optional
network cards provide support for EtherTalk, Novell NetWare, TCP/IP,
TokenTalk and LocalTalk protocols. All ports are simultaneously active
with automatic print queue management.

The Phaser 550 color printer prints on common office papers or Tektronix
transparencies, including full images on legal size paper. Optional
upgrades to the standard configuration provide access to 1200 dpi,
collation and job pipelining, as well as a new checkprint feature.

Checkprint pauses the printer after making the first print of a multiple
print job. This is particularly useful when printing multiple copies of a
very large file that may take several minutes to process before the first
print is produced. The user can check the first print for acceptability
before allowing the remainder to print.

The Phaser 550 and the Phaser 340 color printers are the first certified
Novell NetWare Directory Services (NDS) printers in the market. NDS is a
key feature of NetWare(r) 4.1 and Tektronix is the first NEST partner and
printer vendor (monochrome or color) to be certified by Novell to ship NDS
support in a printer. As the market leader in color laser-class color
printers, Tektronix is committed to providing innovative network
connectivity solutions for our customers. Customers who have existing
PhaserShare Ethernet or Token Ring cards for the Phaser 340 and the Phaser
540 can upgrade to add NDS support.

The Phaser 550 color printer includes support for PANTONE(r)*-approved
solid color simulations, ICM and ColorSync 2.0 color profiles and TekColor
dynamic correction for easy color control from any platform. In addition
to Adobe PostScript Level 2 support, the Phaser 550 also includes HP-GL
and optional PCL 5 emulation. The printer can automatically sense and
switch among printer languages.

The Phaser 550 color printer is covered by a one-year warranty. For more
information on Tektronix color printers, write to Tektronix, Inc., P.O.
Box 1000, MS 63-583, Wilsonville, OR 97070, or call 800-835-6100 or
503-682-7377. Information is also available by fax through Tektronix'
24-hour worldwide Highly Automated Library (HAL) at 503-682-7450 or via
Tektronix World Wide Web site at http://www.tek.com/Color_Printers/.
 
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