Adobe Announces First Implementation of PrintGear With New NEC Printer

NEC SuperScript 860 Laser Printer Sets New Standard for SOHO Market

Mountain View, Calif., (May 15, 1996) (Nasdaq: ADBE) -- Adobe Systems
Incorporated today announced the first printer with Adobe PrintGear
technology, the NEC SuperScript 860. NEC Technologies' SuperScript 860
laser printer incorporates Adobe's innovative new printer imaging
architecture PrintGear, and is designed to be the industry's fastest,
highest performing, lowest cost printer for the needs of the rapidly
expanding small office/home office (SOHO) market. Priced at $499 with 8
page per minute (ppm) monochrome laser throughput and high quality 600 x
600 dot per inch (dpi) output resolution, the NEC SuperScript 860 printer
with Adobe PrintGear technology offers users the most comprehensive set of
printing capabilities available for the small office and home office
today.

"Adobe understands the challenges that SOHO users face in choosing
printers. Traditionally, customers at home and in small businesses have
been forced to choose between acceptable performance or low cost," said
Fred Schwedner, senior vice president and general manager of Adobe's
Printing and Systems Group. "Now, with the PrintGear architecture, users
can have high performance, professional looking output and affordability.
We are pleased that NEC is offering the first printer with Adobe
PrintGear. With dramatic improvements in speed, quality, shareability and
price/ performance, NEC customers will no longer have to compromise in
their choice for the best printer solution."

"We expect the SuperScript 860 to seriously challenge price/performance
standards in personal laser printing," said Tom Pavela, marketing director
of NEC's printer division. "The bottom line is that the SuperScript 860
offers more than competing brands for about the same price -- that's a
package we think the value-conscious SOHO user will find hard to
resist."For Immediate Release For more information Please contact:
Jennifer Polanski Adobe Systems Incorporated 415 962.6060
jpolansk@adobe.com

Adobe's PrintGear architecture is a combination of host-based printing
software and custom designed printer hardware that allows printer
manufacturers to deliver superior performance, quality and features at an
affordable price for SOHO users. Adobe intends to raise the bar on low end
printing expectations with PrintGear technology, just as Adobe
revolutionized desktop publishing with Adobe PostScript, the worldwide
imaging language standard for networked and higher-end printing markets.
With Adobe PrintGear and Adobe PostScript technologies, Adobe's printer
product offerings now span the range of the printer market from the SOHO
marketplace to networked and high-end printing markets.

Based on a uniquely designed 50 MHz imaging processor, the Adobe PrintGear
architecture delivers robust printing capabilities with a substantial
printer cost reduction. The PrintGear architecture offers printing
features never before available at a low cost. Now, with PrintGear
technology, printer manufacturers and retailers can meet the needs of
small business users with products designed to be best in class.

Key Features of the NEC SuperScript 860 laser printer with Adobe PrintGear
include:

* higher performance and output quality than competitive products
  offer in its price range
* proof sheet printing (N-up printing); prints up to 16 pages on
  a single sheet
* two-sided printing
* custom watermarks
* poster and booklet printing

Additional Features/Benefits:

* NEC's high speed 8 ppm; delivers superior performance,
  professional quality output
* true 600 x 600 dpi laser resolution enhanced with NEC Sharp Edge
  Technology (SET) and superfine toner; provides crisp, smooth text
  and graphics output
* high-performance image rendering and image compression; allows the
  user to print jobs faster and return to applications more quickly
* shares up to 6 users; easy shareability to meet growing needs of
  a business
* 200-sheet paper feeder; offers flexible paper handling with easy
  envelope and two-sided printing
* comes standard with 1MB of RAM; upgradeable to 5MB with its
  industry standard SIMM socket
* Adobe Memory Booster effectively triples installed printer memory
  capability; allows complex jobs to be printed without adding memory
* Windows 95, Windows 3.1x, and DOS compatible; offers easy printer
  set-up
* SuperScript 860 Solutions CD with 78 Type one top-quality fonts,
  clip art, Adobe Type Manager, Adobe Acrobat Reader and interactive
  document design and font usage training guide for creating
  compelling documents; "How to look good on paper"
* Internet In A Box; offers quick and easy Internet access
* 2-year limited overnight replacement warranty and free telephone
  support from NEC; practically guarantees uninterrupted use of the
  printer

The NEC SuperScript 860 printer is available now through national retailers
including CompUSA and Circuit City at an estimated street price of $499
(U.S.).

Adobe offers a total printing solution with Adobe PrintGear technology for
the small office/home office (SOHO) market; Adobe PostScript technology as
the standard from corporate desktop printers to high-end publishing
printers; a new architecture, code named "Supra", that incorporates both
Adobe PostScript and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) for production
printers; and Adobe PrintMill, an Internet-based printing service. Adobe
also works with leading software vendors and printer manufacturers to
provide Adobe printer drivers. Adobe printing technologies provide
quality, compatibility, price/performance and choice for anyone who
prints.

Based in Mountain View, California, Adobe Systems Incorporated develops and
supports 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.

For more information about the NEC SuperScript 860 laser printer, please
contact:

NEC Technologies Inc., Mountain View, Calif.
Tara Cooper, 415 528.5731 or tcooper@nectech.com
 
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