Agfa Font Manager licensed by Brother International; Brother announcement increases industry support

Business Wire, June 17, 1996

WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1996 -- Agfa Typographic Systems today announced that Brother International Corporation has licensed the Agfa Font Manager for use within its new HL-730DX laser printer. The Agfa Font Manager is a comprehensive Windows font management utility for printer and software application developers. Brother will distribute the product as the Brother Font Manager, offering the software with 96 compressed MicroType fonts.

"With Brother using Agfa products, it further solidifies support for the Agfa Font Manager throughout the electronic printer industry," said Doug Shaw, Agfa's OEM Business Unit Director for Typographic Systems. "Customers have always had difficulty with font management, but now with the Agfa Font Manager they can easily install, de-install and manage all of their available Windows fonts."

"With an increased selection of high quality fonts from a number of resources, end users have demanded better font management," said John Wandishin, Director of Marketing for Printers at Brother. "The Agfa Font Manager will provide Brother customers with a font management utility and access to industry standard typefaces."

Brother's HL-730DX printer features 6ppm speed, true 600x600 dpi resolution and a genuine straight paper path. The printer, along with others in the HL-700 Series line, has the ability to print on envelopes up to 9"x 12", which no other desktop printer can do.

Viewing and printing functions are available with the Agfa Font Manager to assist users in font selection. Users can print font samples of all typefaces available, or specific personal groups. The Agfa Font Manager, which can be bundled with any major font format including MicroType, TrueType, and Type1 fonts, is easy to use and contains an on-line help system eliminating the need to provide costly documentation for Agfa Font Manager users.

Brother International Corporation markets a complete line of laser, ink jet and dot matrix printers and scanners. With production from their Bartlett, Tennessee factory, Brother is America's largest manufacturer of portable electronic typewriters and personal word processors. Brother also distributes a full line of sewing machines and automated office, industrial and home electronic products. In addition to its headquarters in Somerset, New Jersey, Brother has operations in Brazil, Canada, California, Chile, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas.

The Agfa-Gevaert Group is a leading worldwide manufacturer of imaging products and systems, with annual worldwide sales of $4.5 billion. Agfa-Gevaert manufactures and markets products and systems for the electronic and photographic prepress, medical and technical diagnostic, and amateur and professional photographic markets. Headquartered in Europe, Agfa-Gevaert is wholly owned by Bayer, AG. In the United States, Agfa operates as a division of Bayer Corporation, with headquarters in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Bayer has major businesses in chemicals, health care, and imaging technologies. Bayer employs 24,000 people and had sales of $7.1 billion in 1994. -0-

Additional information on Agfa Typographic Systems may be found on the WWW at: http://www.Agfahome.com

MicroType is a registered trademark and Agfa Font Manager is a trademark of Agfa Division, Bayer Corporation.

TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

All other names are trademarks of respective holders.

CONTACT: Greg Porell Cheryl Walsh (for Agfa)

Marketing Manager Brodeur & Partners

Typographic Systems (617) 622-2845

Agfa cwalsh@brodeur.com

(508) 657-0232 Ext. 2015

Greg_Porell@Agfa-Type.com