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- Apple Offers New Selection of Fonts
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- Contact:
- Jackie Promes
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- 408-974-3609
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- Nancy Morrison
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- 408-862-6200
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- Apple Offers New Selection of High-Quality, Affordable Fonts for
- Mainstream Macintosh Customers
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- New Fonts Complement Apple's Existing Fonts -- Available in the New
- Apple Font Pack and in Apple Network Printers
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- SEYBOLD SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, California -- September 21,
- 1992 -- Responding to customer requests for a wider selection of
- affordable, high-quality fonts, Apple Computer, Inc. today introduced
- its latest retail software product, the Apple Font Pack, which
- includes a rich selection of new TrueType fonts from leading type
- vendors. With the Apple Font Pack, Apple has made it even easier for
- customers of the Macintosh personal computer to use fonts in
- designing more effective documents with greater visual impact.
- The Apple Font Pack is designed as a comprehensive product that
- addresses the typographic needs of mainstream customers. It requires
- minimal system overhead, and makes fonts easy to use with one-click
- installation and a booklet to educate customers on how to effectively
- use type to create compelling documents. Apple's focus on ease-of-
- use is backed up by one year of toll-free telephone support for
- customers in the United States. The Apple Font Pack also includes
- the Apple LaserWriter Driver and LaserWriter Font Utility software
- for using the fonts with Apple and third-party PostScript laser
- printers.
- "Our objective is to make it easy and affordable for any Macintosh
- customer to take full advantage of the powerful typographic
- capabilities of System 7," said Roger Heinen, senior vice president
- and general manager of Apple's Macintosh software architecture
- division. "With the Apple Font Pack, customers have convenient
- access to a carefully selected library of exceptional fonts that will
- deliver impressive results."
- The Apple Font Pack has 43 fonts, including 25 new Apple fonts -- all
- from leading type foundries -- and 18 of the fonts Apple has been
- shipping with its popular LaserWriter and StyleWriter printers. The
- Apple Font Pack fonts, added to the 21 fonts that come with the
- Macintosh System 7 operating software, bring Apple's font offering
- for the Macintosh computer to 64.
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- Enhanced LaserWriter Printers
- The 25 new fonts will also be added to the library of fonts included
- with Apple's network printers--the LaserWriter IIf, LaserWriter IIg
- and Personal LaserWriter NTR. This boosts the font offering to 64
- for customers using any Macintosh computer with these printers, and
- provides the most compelling type offering among laser printer
- vendors.
- "Our network laser printers are a key part of Apple's business," said
- John Moon, Apple's vice president, imaging products. "The inclusion
- of 25 new high-quality fonts in these printers sets a new standard
- and is an example of Apple's continued commitment to provide its
- customers with the industry's best all-around printing products."
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- Price and Availability
- In the United States, the Apple Font Pack will be available by
- October 7, 1992 through a wide variety of software resellers and
- authorized Apple resellers, for a suggested retail price of U.S. $99.
- Outside the United States, the Font Pack will be available through
- authorized Apple resellers. Pricing varies by country.
- The 25 new fonts included on disk with the Apple LaserWriter IIf and
- IIg and Personal LaserWriter NTR printers will be available beginning
- September 22, 1992. In the United States, the suggested retail price
- for these enhanced laser printer products remains the same -- U.S.
- $3,299 for the LaserWriter IIf, U.S. $4,299 for the LaserWriter IIg,
- and U.S. $2,199 for the Personal LaserWriter NTR. The prices vary
- outside the U.S. by country.
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- Compatibility and Configurations
- The Apple Font Pack requires a Macintosh personal computer running
- System 7. The LaserWriter IIf, IIg and Personal LaserWriter NTR
- printer font sets are compatible with Macintosh computers running
- System 6.0.7 or System 7. Once installed, the fonts are compatible
- with any Macintosh printer or output device, and third-party
- printers.
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- 25 New Fonts from Apple
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- AGFA Division of Miles, Inc. Delphian
- Nadianne
- Nadianne Bold
- Oxford
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- Bigelow & Holmes, Inc. Lucida Bright
- Lucida Bright Bold
- Lucida Bright Italic
- Lucida Bright Bold Italic
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- Bitstream, Inc. (all licensed to ITC) ITC Garamond Narrow
- ITC Garamond Narrow Bold
- ITC Garamond Narrow Italic
- ITC Garamond Narrow Bold Italic
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- Font Bureau, Inc. Zeal
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- International Typeface Corporation ITC Machine
- ITC Lubalin Graph
- ITC Lubalin Graph Bold
- ITC Lubalin Graph Oblique
- ITC Lubalin Graph Bold Oblique
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- Linotype-Hell Helvetica Black
- Helvetica Black Oblique
- Helvetica Compressed
- Helvetica Compressed Oblique
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- Monotype Typography Old English
- Swing Bold
- Onyx
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- Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh and LaserWriter are registered
- trademarks, and StyleWriter, System 7 and TrueType are trademarks of
- Apple Computer, Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe
- Systems Incorporated.
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