NEW YORK, June 23, 1992 -- To address home office and business
professionals' demands for high-quality, cost-efficient laser printers,
Panasonic Communications & Systems Company's Office Automation (OA) Group
is showcasing its line of feature-rich laser printers at PC Expo. The
four-member family of Laser Partner printers, which ranges from a
five-page per minute (ppm) personal printer with scalable fonts to an
11-ppm PostScript printer, is on display at booth 4334 at the Jacob K.
Javits Convention Center.

"Panasonic OA's recent introduction of two personal laser printers - the
KX-P4430 and KX-P4410 - demonstrates our commitment to the booming home
office and small business market," said Terry Shorrock, national marketing
manager of Panasonic OA's Computer Products Division. "Our entire laser
printer family is designed to provide customers with reliable,
cost-effective printers for sophisticated text and graphics
applications."

Panasonic OA's Laser Partner Family

KX-P4430 

The KX-P4430 Laser Partner features a new five-ppm laser printer engine and
PCL 5 emulation and also offers "SatinPrint," an innovative resolution
enhancement technology that smoothes out the jagged edges typical of most
low-cost laser printers. The KX-P4430 incorporates the PCL 5 printer
language and Intellifont font-scaling technology from Wilmington,
Mass.-based AGFA Compugraphic. The personal printer has eight internal
outline typefaces, which can be scaled from four points to 999.75 points
in quarter-point increments.

The KX-P4430's developer has an anticipated life of 90,000 sheets, and is
projected to last more than a year of normal use even when averaging more
than 300 sheets per day.

The printer comes standard with one megabyte of RAM that is expandable to
five megabytes. It offers a total capacity of 400 sheets using the
200-sheet standard cassette and a 200-sheet optional cassette. The
KX-P4430 also features a universal multipurpose cassette that adjusts for
paper sizes ranging from envelope to legal size. A 100-sheet face-down
output tray for collated pages and a 20-sheet face-up output tray tailors
to heavier stock, labels and envelopes.

The KX-P4430 is available through authorized Panasonic OA dealers and
distributors for a suggested retail price (SRP) of $1,495.

KX-P4410 

Panasonic OA's five-ppm KX-P4410 Laser Partner is targeted at home office
and small business professionals who demand a low-end, cost-efficient
laser printer. The personal laser printer is available through authorized
Panasonic OA dealers and distributors for an SRP of $1,095.

The KX-P4410 printer has 14 resident fonts, each available in both portrait
and landscape orientations for a total of 28 internal fonts. It is also
equipped with a font card slot that "reads" data, allowing end users to
load fonts from the font card into the printer's RAM and then access an
additional font card. The Panasonic OA font cards are available for an SRP
of $145.

The KX-P4410 incorporates the PCL 4 printer language and produces text and
graphics at a resolution of 300 dots per inch (dpi). The HP IIP LaserJet
Series emulation renders the printer compatible with today's most popular
software. Designed with a Centronics parallel interface, the KX-P4410 is
compatible with most computer hardware. It is also equipped with 512K of
RAM, expandable to 4.5 megabytes.

The KX-P4410, as well as the KX-P4430, features a power-management
function, which allows it to automatically switch into power-save mode
when continuous operation is halted. The printer is also programmed to
power up quickly once data is received without losing downloaded fonts or
macros.

The KX-P4410 comes standard with a 200-sheet universal multi-purpose
cassette which adjusts for paper sizes ranging from envelope to legal
size. Using a 200-sheet optional cassette, the printer offers a total
capacity of 400 sheets, thus reducing the frequency of refilling the
cassettes and providing exceptional paper-handling flexibility. The
printer also features a 100-sheet face-down output tray for collated pages
and a 20-sheet face-up output tray for heavier stock, labels and
envelopes. The EZ-Set front control panel allows users to select such
functions as fonts, page format, paper size and number of copies, among
others.

KX-P4455 

The KX-P4455 Laser Partner is an 11-ppm PostScript printer featuring 39
Adobe typefaces in PostScript mode and 26 resident fonts in HP LaserJet II
mode. The KX-P4455 comes standard with two megabytes of RAM (expandable to
four megabytes), two paper cassettes handling a maximum capacity of 500
sheets, and RS-232C, RS-422A, Centronics parallel and AppleTalk
interfaces.

It is currently available through authorized Panasonic OA dealers and
distributors for an SRP of $2,995.

KX-P4450i 

The 11-ppm KX-P4450i produces high-quality text and graphic resolution of
300 dpi. It comes equipped with 512K of RAM, expandable to 4.5 megabytes,
and has a total of 28 internal fonts, 14 each usable in both portrait and
landscape. Paper handling features include two standard 250-sheet
letter-size paper cassettes, which can accommodate various paper stock
such as letterhead, labels and transparencies. It is also equipped with an
EZ-Set front control panel and Centronics parallel and RS-232C serial
interfaces.

The KX-P4450i is available through authorized Panasonic OA dealers and
distributors for an SRP of $2,095.

In the United States, Panasonic Communications & Systems Company's Office
Automation Group markets an extensive line of office automation equipment,
including dot matrix, laser and color thermal printers; the PanaSync line
of color monitors; CD-ROM drives; phase-change, magneto-optical and WORM
optical-disk recording and storage equipment; the Panafile II series of
optical filing products; filing sub-systems; computer scanners; color
digital copiers; office and personal copiers; whiteboards; electronic
typewriters; and the Panafax line of plain-paper and thermal facsimile
machines.

Panasonic Communications & Systems Company (PCSC)
Office Automation (OA) Group
Two Panasonic Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094

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