This confirms that the print system successfully integrates with TOSHIBA TEC's B-SX4 and B-SX5 industrial printers, allowing users to optimize their data communications capabilities in Auto ID environments.

The SAP NetWeaver® platform enables customers to align IT with their business requirements. By combining composition technologies and functionality it reduces IT complexity and increases flexibility, allowing users to deliver applications and content quickly and cost effectively.

In addition, TOSHIBA TEC has included universal XML support for its SX-4 and SX-5 industrial printers. This tool allows the SX-4 and SX-5 printers to be configured to run directly from warehouse management systems provided by companies that offer enterprise resource planning solutions, such as SAP AG.

Middleware solutions in industrial ERP programs are already widely in use through TOSHIBA TEC VARs and system integrators in Europe.

"We are delighted to have achieved certification for SAP NetWeaver® status for Print System for XML. The ability of Print System XML to leverage the business potential of assets provided by solutions from SAP and other vendors will prove highly beneficial to current and future customer engagements," said Mike Keane, Manager, Auto ID Division of TOSHIBA TEC Europe.

About TOSHIBA TEC Europe

TOSHIBA TEC Europe (TERIS) manages product planning, marketing, sales, service support and distribution of point of sale systems, cash registers, scales, barcode printers, peripherals and software information systems throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As a total solution provider, TOSHIBA TEC Europe offers a complete package from consulting and system design to system installation, operation and maintenance.

Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium TERIS has three divisions: the Retail division; the Auto ID division and the Services division.

Toshiba TEC is an independent operating company of Toshiba Corporation, the sixth largest electronics/electrical equipment company and the world's 72nd largest company in terms of sales. Ranked by Fortune magazine as the 9th Most Admired Electronics Company in the World, Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in high technology products; and it has more than 300 major subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Fiscal year revenue in 2005 was approximately $54.5 billion.

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