Telephone Directory Division, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 1-7, Uchisaiwai-cho, 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-19 Japan, Telephone: +81-3-3509-5052, Attn: Mr. Yamada

99 -- JAPAN: POSTSCRIPT FONT Sol Kanpo 08-150. (TDD.02-208-2). Due 121196. POC NTT America, Inc., Head Office, 101 Park Avenue, 41st. Floor New York, NY 10178, 212/808-2296 also NTT America Inc., Pacific and Western Division 700 E. El Camino Real, Suite 200, Mountain View, CA 94040, 415/940-6565. This announcement (RFI) is to request provision of general reference materials from potential suppliers prior to a procurement announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal. This announcement does not necessarily promise that a procurement announcement will follow. No payment will be made for the information submitted. The Outline of system is as follows: (1) Name; PostScript Font (2) Overview: This product is intended to be installed to equipment which corresponds to PostScript and to produce a directory. This product is requested to deal with standard characters of approximately 20 types of typefaces (approx. 7000 characters including JIS 1st and 2nd, and system unique characters), and external characters (approx. 6000 characters) for special typefaces. (i) Technical information a. Information of multiple platform - Information of encoding - Information of copyright. Other Information (ii) Prices a. Price of the presently prepared font b. Price to create one external character (iii) Standard time of delivery after ordering (iv) Sales and installation records a. Information for past sales and installation records b. Information for the presently prepared fonts (v) Others (positive proposals which may benefit NTT's business) (3) Deadline for RFI: 3:00 pm, December 11, 1996 (Mail must arrive no later than the above date.) (4) Addresses to send information for RFI: Telephone Directory Division, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation 1-7, Uchisaiwai-cho, 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-19 Japan Telephone: +81-3-3509-5052 Attn: Mr. Yamada or NTT America, Inc., Head Office, 101 Park Avenue, 41st Floor New York, NY 10178, also NTT America, Inc., Pacific and Western Division 700 E. El Camino Real, Suite 200 Mountain View, CA 94040, U.S.A. (5) Language: Japanese or English (6) Misc: The above public notice is the plan as of today and is subject to change. For further information or inquiries, please contact the above mentioned person. (330)

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