Reduced Sales Drag Aspeon Into the Red

Aspeon Inc., which makes touch-screen point-of-sale computers, warned Thursday that soft demand for its core Javelin products reduced sales in the fourth fiscal quarter and helped push the Irvine company into the red.

Losses from operations should range from $8.7 million to $9.4 million for the three months ended June 30 as revenue dips to an estimated $19 million from $20.9 million a year earlier. The company’s operating income totaled $2.1 million in the fourth quarter last year.

The loss in the recent quarter includes about $4.2 million in special charges, mostly related to reduction of senior management at the company’s ASP subsidiary, Aspeon said.