Client Software International Announces Versatile Print Manager for IBM AS/400; Enables Output on All Network Devices Via TCP/IP.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1998--Client Software International Monday introduced a versatile new print manager for IBM AS/400 installations that allows files to be output quickly and easily to single or multiple printers, facsimiles and even e-mail addresses with a company's network structure, or which are dial-up available over a TCP/IP network, it was announced by Dennis A. Murray, president and CEO.

Designated WERX4 Printers, the new software resides on a workstation or a network sprint server, taking over the printing duties of the AS/400 mainframe/server and making it unnecessary for workstation users to perform the time-consuming configuration process normally required to generate documents through the mainframe printer.

"Printing through the AS/400 has been unnecessarily complex," Murray said. "WERX4 Printers removes the complexity and allows the production of any document at virtually any device with a simple mouse click. Too, by offloading the spooling, report rendering and reformatting functions to the network level, the printing resources of the mainframe are conserved for large documents and batch activities.

"WERX4 Printers' easy setup procedure can have clients up and printing in 10 minutes or less. It is the only print manager available that completely saves the AS/400 printing dilemma."

WERX4 Printers is available immediately directly from the company for an introductory price of $295 during a 60-day introductory period, after which it returns to the established price of $595 per copy. Volume discounts of 10 percent and 10 percent are available for 10-copy and 20-copy purchases, respectively, and the product carries a 90-day money-back guarantee.

"WERX4 Printers is an easy solution both from the machine and user perspective," Murray said. "A simple TCP/IP output queue on the AS/400 redirects reports to WERX4 Printers running on a PC. Depending on the report's attributes, WERX4 Printers then dispatches it to the appropriate output device."

Features and advantages of the software include:

-- clients output to any device on the network via TCP/IP;

-- reduces load on AS/400 resources;

-- minimizes mainframe configuration/maintenance task;

-- simplifies network configuration for all printers;

-- no delay waiting for mainframe printers;

-- control over printing: allows printing of selected pages and

restart;

-- greater productivity from LAN printers, which are less

expensive than AS/400 printers;

-- bulk distribution of reports via e-mail;

-- power for growth: WERX4 Printers manages large numbers of host

connections and reports of up to 100 megabytes; and

-- LAN-based PC/servers can also utilize mainframe printers.

WERX4 Printers works with a variety of mainframes, including Fujitsu, DEC, UCX, Honeywell, Unisys and others running under the UNIX operating system.

Client Software International (CSI) is a specialized software marketing and distribution company that identifies unsolved problems in computer utilization and acquires or develops software solutions to overcome them.

For further information, contact the Marketing Department, CSI, 849 Almar Ave., Suite C-305, Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060; phone [phone]; fax [phone]; e-mail [e-mail].

CONTACT: Client Software International, Santa Cruz

Dennis Murray, 408/466-9999

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Victor Wortman Co.

Victor Wortman, 310/393-6281