PRINTRONIX INC.

ADDRESS: 17500 Cartwright Road, Irvine.

BUSINESS: The company designed, manufactures and markets business printers for use with microcomputers and mainframe computers.

ASSETS: $82.3 million (at Sept. 25).

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 1,500.

TOP EXECUTIVES:

Name: Robert A. Kleist Position: President, chief executive officer, chief financial officer Compensation: $195,060

Name: Melvin Posin Position: Senior vice president, sales Compensation: 152,378

Name: Michael G. de Nicola Position: Senior vice president, chief operations officer Compensation: 151,716

Name: David W. Mayne Position: Senior vice president, corporate development, and secretaryCompensation: 144,512

Name: J. Edward Belt Position: Senior vice president, engineering, and chief technical officer Compensation: 132,018

Source: Printronix proxy report dated July 7.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Name: Robert A. Kleist Age: 58 Occupation: President, chief executive officer of the company Shares owned: 582,172 % of total shares: 12.8

Name: David W. Mayne Age: 56 Occupation: Senior vice president and secretary of the company Shares owned: 267,343 % of total shares: 5.9

Name: Melvin Posin Age: 62 Occupation: Senior vice president of the company Shares owned: 113,146 % of total shares: 2.5

Name: Bruce T. Coleman Age: 48 Occupation: President and chief executive, Boole and Babbage Inc. Shares owned: 10,015 % of total shares: 0.2

Name: John R. Dougery Age: 47 Occupation: General partner, Dougery, Jones & Wilder Shares owned: 8,875 % of total shares: 0.2

Name: Erwin A. Kelen Age: 52 Occupation: President and chief executive, DataMyte Corp. Shares owned: 20,300 % of total shares: 0.4

Name: Jerry F. Kelley Age: 54 Occupation: Independent investor, former executive of the company Shares owned: 22,251 % of total shares: 0.5

* Includes stock-purchase rights.

Source: Printronix proxy report dated July 7.

OTHER MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS

Shares % of total Name owned shares Scudder, Stevens & Clark Ltd., New York 245,000 5.4

FINANCIAL RESULTS

Fiscal year ends in late March. Earnings and revenue in millions of dollars.

6 months 1988 1987 1986 1985 Sales $58.5 $123.7 $131.9 $148.4 Earnings (loss) (1.0) (4.9) (11.7) 7.1 Per share (0.23) (1.04) (2.38) 1.47

STOCK DATA

Stock exchange, symbol NASDAQ, PTNX

Shares outstanding (Nov. 3) 4,581,195

52-week high $14.75

52-week low $6.625

Friday’s closing price per share $9,unchanged

Market value of common stock $41.2 million