October 31, 1994 -- Tektronix today announced the Phaser 540 color laser
printer, the first desktop color printer that produces continuous-tone
color for photographic-quality images at print-on-demand speeds. Because
of its architecture, the Phaser 540 is much simpler to operate and
maintain than competitive desktop color laser printers.

The Phaser 540 is also the first printer to support the Phaser CopyStation,
a color copying option.

Priced at $8,995 (U.S. suggested list, international prices vary, please
contact your local Tektronix dealer or sales office), the Phaser 540 will
be available in December.

For intelligent networking, Tektronix' family of networking solutions
called Phaser Share, makes it easy to install and operate the Phaser 540
in a variety of network environments. Automatic port and protocol
switching allow Macintoshes, PCs, and UNIX workstations to use the Phaser
540. Phaser Share includes bi-directional management of Tektronix color
printers on Novell. NetWare. networks. The Phaser Share status monitor
provides printer status reporting. Planned enhancements will add
administrative tools for managing printer functions over the network.

The Phaser CopyStation connects to the Phaser 540's SCSI port to provide
convenient color duplicating capability. The CopyStation sends an image of
the document to be copied directly to the printer, which prints the
requested number of copies. The CopyStation is priced at $1,695 (U.S.
suggested list, international prices vary, please contact your local
Tektronix dealer or sales office).

For easy-to-use color control, the Phaser 540 has TekColor Dynamic
Correction. A driver selection chooses the color correction to be made at
print time. For business and engineering/scientific users, Dynamic
Correction includes simulate display and vivid color corrections. For
graphic arts applications, there are three simulations: Commercial Press,
SWOP Press and Euroscale Press.

Specifications:

 600 x 600 or 300 x 300 dots-per-inch selectable resolution
 Continuous tone
 Letter/A4 size media
 Adobe PostScript Level 2
 PCL5 emulation (Monochrome only)
 HP-GL emulation
 3.5 Pages-per-minute (14 ppm monochrome)
 39 PostScript fonts in ROM, additional fonts may be downloaded to RAM
 4 PCL typefaces in ROM
 Interfaces:
   Parallel standard
   SCSI standard (for font disk or CopyStation only)
   AppleTalk optional
   Token Ring optional
   Novell optional
   EtherTalk optional
   TCP/IP optional
 32 MHz AMD 29030 RISC Image Processor
 20 Mbytes RAM standard, expandable to 52 Mbytes
 One-year warranty

Tektronix, Inc.
P.O. Box 1000, MS 63-583
Wilsonville, OR 97070
800-835-6100 - for product information
503-682-7450 - for HAL FAX-back information

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