STAR MICRONICS ANNOUNCES THE SJ-144 LASER-QUALITY PRINTER

SJ-144 Is First Laser-Quality Printer Under $600 to Offer Full Color and
Monochrome Printing of Text and Graphic Images

NEW YORK, May 24, 1993 -- Star Micronics today announced the SJ-144
laser-quality printer that produces full color and exceptionally sharp,
monochrome text and graphic images. The SJ-144 is designed to print
glossy, vibrant color text and graphics on a wide variety of print media
from laser-quality plain paper to overhead transparencies.

With a print speed of up to 382 characters per second and 360 dots per inch
raster graphics resolution, the SJ-144 is an affordable alternative to
more expensive laser printers, a significant and inexpensive upgrade from
color dot matrix printers, and offers both a price performance and
superior technological advantage over current ink jet printers.

The SJ-144 utilizes a Plain-Paper, Heat-Fusion printing process that allows
it to print to a wide variety of media from laser-quality plain, coated or
recycled paper to labels, card stock, envelopes and overhead
transparencies. The printing process produces sharp images that resist
smearing even when wet, or when marked by a highlighter.

With a suggested retail price of $599, the printer is intended for use by
home office and small business PC users who want to add the advantage of
laser-quality color to documents, presentations and designs.

Additional standard features of the SJ-144 include:

** Three paper feed paths: automatic paper tray with 30 sheeet capacity;
manual rear feed for less flexible media; and manual front feed for
cut-sheet plain paper.

** Three industry standard emulations plus Star's Automatic Emulation
Switching for printing in multiple environments.

** Eight laser quality bitmapped fonts and fifteen scalable TrueType fonts
for Windows 3.1.

** Star's Compressed Data Mode for reducing information transfer time of
graphic data between PC and printer.

** Zoom Mode printing for reducing the size of any text or graphic to 80%,
67% or 50% of the original.

** 2-Page Printing Mode for printing two pages of data on one page.

** Label Mode for printing peel-off, strop labels up to 7.2 inches long

Options for the SJ-144 include a choice of 12 different color ribbons for
printing peel-off, strip labels and a choice of two ribbons for printing
color or monochrome transparencies.

The SJ-144 will be available in July of 1993 and will be sold in North and
South America through Star's authorized distributors and dealers.

Headquartered in New York, Star Micronics America is a subsidiary of Star
Micronics Company, Ltd., Shizuoka, Japan. Star markets one of the
industry's most complete line of printers designed for use with personal
computers. This includes 9-pin and 24-pin dot matrix, ink jet, laser and
heat fusion printers.

Star Micronics America Inc
420 Lexington Ave, Suite 2702
New York, NY 10170
212-986-6770,  fax: 212-286-9063

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