Directorate

XAAR PLC
19 August 1999


             APPOINTMENT OF OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
                              
                              
                              
Xaar plc, the Cambridge based inkjet printing technology
company, has appointed Jan Fineman as Operations Director 
with effect from 18 August 1999. Mr Fineman, 39, joined Xaar
in April of this year when Xaar acquired MIT (now renamed 
XaarJet AB)in Sweden, where he had been General Manager 
for two years. Before joining MIT, Mr Fineman was 
Vice President of Technical Operations at Biacore AB, 
a division of Pharmacia.

Graham Wylie, Chief Executive of Xaar plc, welcomed the
appointment of Jan Fineman to the Xaar Board and said : 
'XaarJet AB continues to perform beyond our expectations 
and this is due in no small part to Jan's management skills. 
We now aim to make wider use of these skills particularly 
in our XaarJet printhead manufacturing business 
based in Cambridge'.


Xaar plc
Graham Wylie, Chief Executive on        01223 423663

Buchanan Communications
Steve Liebmann or Lisa Baderoon on      0171 466 5000