Alpharetta, Georgia-based Digital Communications Associates Inc says its printer products subsidiary will turn in a third quarter operating loss for the period ending March 31 and that it will take a charge of $59.9m or $5.39 per share, to write off the remaining goodwill associated with its 1990 acquisition of the Pacific Data Products Inc printer subsidiary; it will also write off other assets of about $4.6m or $0.41 per share and because of a slowdown in the laser printer market, Pacific Data will cut some employess and write off assets in the quarter, resulting in a final charge of of $3.2m or $0.29 per share for the parent company.
