SunPics, Sun Microsystems Inc’s printing and imaging subsidiary, has a new printer, a new chief and a new European operation. It has come out with the up-market NeWSPrinter 20, a $5,000, 50,000 sheets-a-month, 20 pages per-minute PostScript companion for its entry-level 12 page per minute SparcPrinter laser printer. The network unit, used in conjunction with NeWSPrint software, will be accessible by any computer including Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes and MS-DOS personal computers, prints on paper up to 11 by 17 and holds 500 sheets, an initial capacity due to be expanded early next year when SunPics rolls out a sheet feeder. Resolutions of 400 and 300 dots-per-inch are user-selectable. NeWSprint is bundled with 57 F3 fonts from major font suppliers including Linotype AG and Monotype Corp, and also supports Type 1 fonts. It will be available worldwide in November. No word on whose print engine is being used. Meanwhile SunPics has recruited Lalita Tademy from Alps Electric (USA) as its new vice-president and general manager, replacing Bill Marr who has become vice-president, US sales at Sun Microsystems. In addition, the company has set up a European operation, headquartered in England at Bagshot, Surrey, under Andrew Field, a Sun UK veteran.
