NOVELL ANNOUNCES HEWLETT-PACKARD SCANNING FUNCTIONALITY FOR APPWARE

New AppWare Loadable Module From HP Allows Developers To Design
Image-Enabled Applications

MONTEREY, CA -- July 11, 1995 -- At Hewlett-Packard's Developer Conference,
held here this week, Novell, Inc. announced the development by
Hewlett-Packard of an AppWare Loadable Module (ALM) for HP ScanJet
scanners. The HP ScanJet ALM is a robust component software part that
provides AppWare developers with quick, easy, and flexible access to the
HP ScanJet family of scanners. The 250 HP peripheral developers attending
the conference were among the first to be introduced to the wide range of
opportunities this ALM presents for developers building scanning-enabled
applications.

"The ScanJet ALM means a much broader range of developers will be able to
quickly and easily build image-centric applications to benefit corporate
customers," said John Lumb, ScanJet Third Party Marketing Manager for HP's
Greeley Hardcopy Division. "In some instances, development of the image
engine can be cut from two months to two days with the ScanJet ALM." The
Scanner Control Language (SCL)--the programming code for the HP
ScanJets--is fully exposed in the ScanJet ALM. As a result, developers can
access SCL with a fully visual tool and utilize scanning features such as
color, resolution, scaling, brightness and contrast in their application
without having to understand the complexities of SCL. The ScanJet ALM
delivers black and white, dithered, 256 level grayscale and 24-bit color
data.

"Developers using this ALM and AppWare can deliver solutions that make the
scanner a common input device for their desktop or network-based
applications," said Ed Firmage, director of marketing for Novell's NetWare
Tools Division. "We expect scanners to become as integral to the end
users' work environment as the CD ROM is today."

The ScanJet ALM will better serve the unique needs of the corporate
customer; for example, by giving them the ability to rapidly scan
pertinent data from custom forms, such as airbills. In addition, this ALM
facilitates the development of applications that allow customers to
capture and transform a printed image including a logo, signature, text or
photograph into a virtual image.

"As scanners become more pervasive throughout the enterprise, corporate and
home office users will find that image aware applications are a powerful
tool for document creation, management and communication," said Glen
Lowry, president of Alta Technology in Salt Lake City. "AppWare is the
tool that allows disparate technologies like scanning, character
recognition and other imaging functions to be integrated with business
applications efficiently to form solid solutions for real business
needs."

Alta Technology--a supplier of imaging hardware and software products--is
an early beta developer that plans to use the HP ScanJet ALM in an Alta
Imaging product offering to be available later this summer.

Designed for corporate developers, MIS, integrators, and others involved in
building horizontal, vertical and business-specific applications, AppWare
is a high-level (5GL) component-based visual tool for developing Macintosh
and MS Windows applications. AppWare's native components known as AppWare
Loadable Modules or ALMs are "programmed" by linking them together
visually on the screen, as in a flow chart. The resulting project is then
compiled as a double-clickable application (.exe). The AppWare development
tool is a key element in Novell's long-term, company-wide component
software strategy; providing an infrastructure of tools and components
that facilitate network application development.

The ScanJet ALM will be available this month at no charge. Information on
obtaining the ALM can be accessed through the following AppWare and HP
channels:

Compuserve: Go AppWare or GO HPPER

Novell Bulletin Board Service (BBS): 801-221-5197

AppWare Internet Mailing List: Appware-info@adeva.org

HP Internet: hp scanners@gr.hp.com or America OnLine: hpscanners@aol.com

AppWare Home Page -WWW: http://www.novell.com/ServSupp/devsup/appware In
addition, the ScanJet ALM will be included with the next release of Novell
AppWare scheduled for late #95.
 
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