Following Adobe Forum, NAPL, NAQP and Coalition for Open Competition Remain Firm

A June 15 letter to Adobe’s Chizen from Truncale and Johnson was a prompt response to the announced agreement and was followed by a flurry of protests from companies and organizations throughout the graphic communications industry. In their June letter, Truncale and Johnson expressed their disappointment in the agreement, which they said provides “an unfair competitive advantage to FedEx Kinko’s. . .at the expense of the many other printers—including many of our members—who have played such a pivotal role in establishing Adobe as the de facto standard among many end users for reading documents and printing file submission.”