Sun Microsystems Inc also formally introduced its new SunPics subsidiary – Printing and Imaging Computer Systems – the unit which will design and market technology for the printing and imaging marketplace. Its stuff will be based around Sun’s page-imaging NeWSprint software, which is based upon the NeWS environment. The PostScript technology enables users to store fonts in a server rather than at the printer, so the fonts can be distributed to any video display or output device on the network for printing. SunPics will also sell Sun’s Sparcprinter laser printer, and has introduced Nihongo NeWSprint 1.0, a Japanese version of NeWSprint, which will be available in Japan later this year.
