Kodak to Enhance Its Color System for PC Graphics

Eastman Kodak Co. will announce today new products and standards intended to make full-color photographs and graphics more popular in desktop computer publishing.

The photographic company says the announcements will build upon a system it unveiled last month that stores photographs electronically on compact discs and displays them on television screens.

The new products involve software that will tie photos stored on CDs to the desktop publishing systems that have mushroomed in popularity in recent years.

Kodak has teamed up with a number of leading computer and software companies, including International Business Machines Corp., Apple Computer Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc., to help popularize the system.

Kodak also will announce a $1,500 color printer to be used to make paper copies of the photographs and text from IBM and Apple computers and compatible models, Kodak executives said Monday.

“We see desktop color imaging to be a whole new industry,” said John P. White, an executive at the Rochester-based company in charge of the new products.

He said the new desktop publishing system is the commercial version of the photo CD system announced in September.