From: rjones@wsl.dec.com (Russ Jones)
Subject: DECnews/Digital Announces Wide-Carriage Printer for $599
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:36:33 GMT

||||||  DECnews for Press and Analyst  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
Editorial contact:

Richard Lee Goldberg 
Video, Image and Print Systems 
(508) 635-8739


                                            COMDEX Booth #4106
         

          DIGITAL ANNOUNCES WIDE-CARRIAGE PRINTER FOR $599
         
         
LAS VEGAS, NV -- NOVEMBER 16, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
announced today a wide-carriage dot matrix printer aggressively 
priced at $599.  The wide-carriage LA310 MultiPrinter handles up to 
five-part forms and includes simultaneously active interfaces, 
emulation assignment by port, and automatic port sensing, which 
enables seamless operation in mixed computing environments.  The 
LA310 printer is Digital's first dot matrix printer with these 
resident capabilities.  The announcement was made at Fall COMDEX, 
which opens here today. 

     The advanced paper-handling features of the LA310 MultiPrinter, 
including automatic paper parking, auto paper loading and zero tear, 
make it an easy-to-use as well as economical printer. 

     A replacement for Digital's LA210 MultiPrinter, the new LA310 
printer features faster speed, quieter operation, and twice the 
reliability at roughly a third the price.  The 300 cps printer 
includes Epson, DEC ANSI PPL2 and IBM ProPrinter protocols and 
prints ten national languages and bar codes.  Paper handling 
includes fan-fold, cutsheet, labels and envelopes. 

     "Digital's LA310 MultiPrinter is intended for billing and data 
processing applications in manufacturing and accounting environments 
requiring multipart forms," said Larry Cabrinety, vice president of 
Digital's Video, Image and Print Systems Group.  "This wide-carriage 
printer has been designed with the reliability which customers in 
these environments demand."

     The 9-wire LA310 printer has the ability to print on up to 
five-part forms (with optional tractor) and includes both serial and 
parallel ports for seamless printing from terminals, workstations 
and PCs.  The printer's four print modes range from high-speed draft 
to near letter quality.

     With Digital's LATprint ThinWire Ethernet interface, the LA310 
MultiPrinter can be shared by any desktop device in a ThinWire 
Ethernet Local Area Network.  With its wide carriage and multiple 
protocols, the LA310 printer is an ideal shared printer. 

     The LA310 MultiPrinter is priced at $599 in single quantities.  
The optional pull tractor is priced at $89 in single quantities.  
Quantity discounts are available.  Shipments begin in December.

     The LA310 printer is available on a private label basis through 
a program Digital announced in September to make enabling technology 
available to a larger number of users through selected "innovation 
vendors."  These companies, including systems vendors and large 
integrators, can now provide advanced printing technologies from 
Digital in their own product offerings.  Private label features 
include software development, controller and other hardware 
modifications to customer specification, user documentation, full 
product branding and packaging, and support from Digital's Six Sigma 
quality monitoring process. 

     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked 
computer systems, software and services.  Digital pioneered and 
leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor 
computing.  Digital and its business partners deliver the power to 
use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center - 
in open information environments.

                                ####

Note to Editors:  LA, MultiPrinter and DEC are trademarks of Digital 
                  Equipment Corporation.   

     		  IBM and ProPrinter are registered trademarks of 
                  International Business Machines Corporation.

CORP/93/877
============================================================================
DECnews for Press and Analyst is sent as a courtesy to members of the press,
analyst and consulting community.  For subscription information please 
contact:
  Russ Jones, UNIX Marketing
  Digital Equipment Corporation
  Voice: 415-617-3597   FAX: 415-617-3572   Internet: rjones@pa.dec.com
============================================================================