Adobe Systems Inc has a contract with AST Research Inc under which AST will be offering a new PostScript printer, the TurboLaser/PS, for $3,995, the lowest priced printer to use the page description language to date: available in September, the new TurboLaser offers 35 resident fonts, a printing resolution of 300 dots per inch and printing speed of eight pages per minute, and it has RS232, Centronics parallel and AppleTalk ports; AST will also offer Postscript as an upgrade option for current TurboLasers, with a $2,000 board that takes about 20 minutes to install.