Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Adobe HomePublisher To Be Bundled with EPSON Stylus
Color Printers

Easy-to-Use Software Combined with Consumer Inkjet Printers Offers Low-Cost
Image-Editing and Desktop Publishing Solution

Mountain View, Calif. (April 8, 1996)(Nasdaq: ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated and Epson America Inc. today announced an agreement to bundle
Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Adobe HomePublisher software for Macintosh with the
EPSON Stylus Color II and EPSON Stylus Pro ink jet printers. The bundle is
part of a consumer promotion from EPSON called the "Look Your Best Color
Pak" available to customers purchasing these EPSON printers between April
1 and July 31, 1996.

The combination of these EPSON color inkjet printers and the "Look Your
Best Color Pak" promotion provides home and small office users with an
easy-to-use, high-quality image-editing and desktop publishing solution
for under $500. The "Look Your Best Color Pak" includes a CD-ROM
containing full versions of Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Adobe HomePublisher
software for the Macintosh, discounts on EPSON products, tips on using
color and other software to help consumers work with color and images in
their documents. During the promotion period, the "Look Your Best Color
Pak" will be included free with either printer, offering an estimated
value of up to $249 worth of software and special offers. The "Look Your
Best Color Pak" promotion is available from major retail outlets that
carry EPSON products.

"This promotion provides a cost-effective and easy way for consumers to
start working with images and color," said Bruce Chizen, vice president,
Adobe consumer products group. "By combining power-ful, yet easy-to-use
software such as PhotoDeluxe and HomePublisher with EPSON's 720 dpi
photo-quality color printers, home and small business users have access to
all the tools needed to produce greeting cards, newsletters, T-shirt logos
and a variety of other creative projects."

Easy-to-Use Software Allows Users to Incorporate Photos Into Documents

Adobe PhotoDeluxe photo-editing software makes it easy to modify,
personalize and enhance photo-graphs by offering an easy-to-use interface
and dozens of built-in templates and guided projects. Photo activities
range from incorporating photographs in greeting cards and calendars, to
creating photo collages and removing the unwanted "red eye" effect. Adobe
PhotoDeluxe provides users two modes of working in the program: Guided
Activities and On Your Own. In either mode, the user interface visually
guides both novice and expert users through each step of the photo
modification and en-hancement process.

The best-selling Adobe HomePublisher for Macintosh automates desktop
publishing by providing emplates for newsletters, flyers, brochures, and
stationery, and comes with more than 2,500 clip-art images and a variety
of fonts.

Full versions of Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Adobe HomePublisher software for
Macintosh are included on the "Look Your Best Color Pak" CD-ROM. Both
software packages are also available as stand-alone products through Adobe
or authorized Adobe resellers, with the estimated street prices of $89 for
Adobe PhotoDeluxe and $49.99 for Adobe HomePublisher. A Windows/Windows 95
version of Adobe PhotoDeluxe is exepcted to be available in Q2 1996. Adobe
PhotoDeluxe and Adobe HomePublisher are part of the Adobe consumer group's
Adobe For You product line of easy-to-use drawing and painting, desktop
publishing and photo creativity software for the home and small business.

Affordable Color Printers for the Home and Small Office

EPSON's family of "Photo-Quality" color ink jet printers, with maximum
resolution of 720 x 720 dpi, include the EPSON Stylus Pro and EPSON Stylus
Color II. With an estimated street price of $499, the EPSON Stylus Pro is
designed for consumers who require the best color output. The EPSON Stylus
Color II, with an estimated street price of $299, offers faster printing
and a fully-loaded feature set. The "Look Your Best Color Pak" comes free
these EPSON printers between April 1 and July 31, 1996.

Based in Mountain View, Calif., Adobe Systems Incorporated is the world's
third largest personal computer software company, with 1995 revenue of
$762.3 million. The company develops and sup-ports products to help people
express and use information in more imaginative and meaningful ways,
across all print and electronic media. Founded in 1982, Adobe helped
launch the desktop publishing revolution. Today, the company offers a
market-leading line of application software and type products for creating
and distributing visually rich communication materials; licenses its
industry-standard technologies to major hardware manufacturers, software
developers, and service providers; and offers integrated software
solutions to businesses of all sizes. For more information, see Adobe's
home page at http://www.adobe.com on the World Wide Web.

EPSON offers an extensive array of technology products, including ink jet,
laser and dot matrix print-ers, scanners, portable and desktop computers,
PCMCIA and storage products, data/video projectors and digital cameras.
For the OEM market, a variety of component and electronic devices are
available. Founded in 1975, Epson America, Inc. is an affiliate of Seiko
Epson Corporation, a global manufac-turer and supplier of high-quality
technology products that meet customer demands for increased
functionality, compactness, systems integration and energy efficiency.
Epson America, Inc. is head-quartered in Torrance, Calif.
 
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