Tektronix announces the Phaser 340, the world's fastest desktop color
printer. Printing at 4 pages per minute, the Phaser 340 surpasses the
speed of other laser-class desktop color printers, and it is significantly
faster than previous office color printing technologies.

The Phaser 340 creates high-quality color output on ordinary office papers,
using solid ink technology. It also prints vibrant, saturated colors on
transparency film the first desktop color printer to handle the full range
of business color printing applications with speed and ease.

The Phaser 340 starts at a suggested list price of US$4,995 (International
prices vary, please refer to a local Tektronix sales office). Per-page
print costs are below those of other desktop color printing technologies,
with average typical color pages costing 11 cents. The Phaser 340 is
shipping now and is available through all authorized Tektronix resellers.

In addition, the Phaser 340 uses solid inks to eliminate the messy toner,
developer and component maintenance chores required with other laser-class
color printers.

There is no need to load special papers or media for optimal results, the
Phaser 340 works with most common office papers and transparency film.
Colors are crisp and saturated, with no color bleeding, toner fading or
fuzzy text. For applications requiring extremely fine text detail or
enhanced image rendering, 600 x 300-dpi printing is available as an
added-cost option.

The Phaser 340 requires minimal user attendance and is easy to maintain.
The Phaser 340's ColorStix solid-ink sticks yield up to 1,000 prints per
stick, and the ample ink reservoirs accept three ColorStix ink sticks at a
time. When they need to be replaced, the non-toxic ColorStix ink can be
dropped into the printer as easily as replacing staples in a stapler no
difficult or clumsy procedures for reloading supplies. A 500-sheet lower
input tray may be added to boost capacity for high-volume office
applications.

The Phaser 340's 32MHz AMD RISC chip and standard 8MB of RAM provide speedy
image processing for most applications.

Built-in Adobe PostScript Level 2 support gives the Phaser 340 its
cross-platform, cross-application versatility, while enhancing performance
and image processing for faster color printing. The Phaser 340 supports
virtually all software programs for Macintosh, PC and UNIX computers.

The Phaser 340 can be configured with up to 24MB RAM for faster image
processing and pipeline processing of pages while the printer outputs a
previous page. Pipeline processing helps multiple-page jobs or queued
print jobs complete more quickly, a productivity advantage in heavy-use
workgroups. Memory buffers can also be increased from the standard 128K to
256K for faster image processing.

The Phaser 340 comes with 17 resident fonts, expandable to 69 resident
fonts for optimal compatibility with the range of files and graphics
commonly exchanged in workgroup environments. A SCSI port supports an
external hard disk to store additional downloadable fonts.

Tektronix' Phaser Copystation can be added to the Phaser 340. Connected to
the printer's SCSI port, the Phaser Copystation lets users generate
multiple color copies from printed originals, such as reports and magazine
articles, as well as from Phaser 340 color pages.

Tektronix' PhaserShare family of networking solutions lets users add
support for a variety of corporate network environments, including Novell
NetWare, EtherTalk, and TCP/IP protocols.

For more information contact Tektronx at (800) 835-6100 [(503) 682-7377
from outside the U.S. and Canada]. Product specifications for the Phaser
340 may be found on the World Wide Web at
http://www.tek.com/Color_Printers/products/340.html and a full-color
printable PDF (Acrobat) data sheet may be obtained from
http://www.tek.com/support/PDF/Mktg/1239.pdf

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