SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Group Logic, Inc., the Virginia-based software publisher, demonstrated the forthcoming version 2.0 of ExtremeZ-IP, the market-leading high-performance file and print server solution for Macintosh computers connected to Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems. Group Logic showed ExtremeZ-IP's performance advantages as well as its new support for IP-based printing at Seybold San Francisco 2000. ExtremeZ-IP has been enhanced to support IP-based printing from Macintosh computers. Using industry standard protocols, Macintosh clients can print directly to an ExtremeZ-IP server without using AppleTalk and without adding additional software to the Macintosh client. Printing from Macintosh clients is significantly faster using TCP/IP, allowing creative professionals to spend more time on their real tasks and less time waiting for their jobs to print. Furthermore, administrators can now complete their transition to an IP-only network by eliminating AppleTalk. In the past, ExtremeZ-IP allowed file services to be moved to TCP/IP solutions, but networks still needed AppleTalk in order to offer printing services. Now with ExtremeZ-IP 2.0 and this new IP printing option, AppleTalk is no longer needed at all. Once print jobs have been received by the ExtremeZ-IP server, it can deliver them to several output devices, including Windows printers, AppleTalk printers, and hot folders (special output directories where the job can be processed by additional software such as a RIP or OPI server). ExtremeZ-IP 2.0 also includes optional software for automatically configuring printers on Macintosh workstations to be able to use IP printing facilities. Macintosh users can retain all of the ease-of-use features they have always had, while administrators can update their network and deliver faster services. "Our customers have been asking us to help them get rid of AppleTalk by adding IP-based printing to ExtremeZ-IP, and we've listened," says T. Reid Lewis, President of Group Logic. "With this option, ExtremeZ-IP version 2.0 provides IP-based printing so that LAN administrators can turn off AppleTalk forever!" "For Macintosh users, ExtremeZ-IP's printing provides the same ease of use that they expect from their Macintosh. Users can browse their network to find IP-based printers, configure those printers with industry standard PPD files, and create familiar desktop printers - but with faster performance and the flexibility of TCP/IP," Lewis added. Group Logic, Inc. is a leading provider of networking and telecommunications software to the graphic arts market. In addition to ExtremeZ-IP, Group Logic publishes MassTransit(TM), its flagship digital file transfer, remote workflow and remote proofing software, and Imagexpo(R) , the leading softproofing and annotation software for printing and prepress firms and their clients. For more information contact Andy Lewis, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Group Logic, Inc., 800-476-8781, or visit www.grouplogic.com.