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- From: bsalter@acorn.co.uk (Brian Salter)
- Subject: DTP News Release from Acorn
- Date: 9 Jan 92 16:55:51 GMT
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- Acorn launches low cost professional DTP solution
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- Release Date 9.1.92
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- Acorn Computers, in association with Computer Concepts, is launching a high
- powered, but low cost Desk Top Publishing system.
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- The system is based on Acorn's A540 computer together with Computer Concepts'
- "Impression" software, and comes with a professional image scanner and a
- direct drive high resolution laser printer. The A540 has an ARM3 32-bit RISC
- processor running at 13.5 mips, 4MB of RAM (upgradable to 16MB), a 120MB SCSI
- hard disc, and is supplied with a 14" multiscan monitor.
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- Computer Concepts' software includes the highly successful "Impression II"
- DTP package, which has already sold some 15,000 copies, with eight families
- of fonts supplied as standard. These fonts are all Adobe-compatible and
- around 200 font families are available for the Acorn format.
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- Also included are "Equasor" - an equation editing program, and a set of
- "Business Supplement" utilities; one group allows the importation of files
- from packages such as WordPerfect, Microsoft Word (RTF) and Wordstar. Other
- utilities enable mail merging and the production of PostScript files -
- including colour separations - for driving image-setters. (These Postscript
- files can be saved to DOS formatted disks by using the MultiFS utility
- program supplied.)
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- The flatbed scanner supplied with the system can scan pages up to 8.5 by 14
- inches at 256 grey levels with a resolution of 300 dots per inch, whilst the
- laser printer can produce documents at up to 600 dots per inch at a rate of
- eight A4 pages per minute.
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- The whole system sells for M-#4,995 ex VAT, which is substantially less than
- any other equivalent system. It will be available from a number of specialist
- dealers, each of whom will be able to demonstrate and support the system.
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- Acorn's Marketing Director, Mike O'Riordan said "This system has a significant
- price performance advantage over any equivalent Mac or PC based system. We
- expect it to attract a great deal of interest, not only from small businesses
- who may have been put off by the thought of introducing complex DTP systems in
- the past, but also from those such as printers who regularly carry out DTP
- work on behalf of others. The Acorn-Computer Concepts' DTP solution now
- allows anyone to produce professional looking documents at a substantially
- lower cost than ever before."
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- Charles Moir, Managing Director of Computer Concepts said "By using an Acorn
- 32-bit RISC workstation, along with our direct drive laser printer, we can
- offer a system with higher performance and twice the print resolution for half
- the price of an equivalent Mac system. We are very pleased to join with Acorn
- in marketing this system since, as a major UK computer company, this will help
- businesses view it as a serious alternative. The superior speed gives us
- significant advantages in document creation productivity and print throughput."
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