Acer Group Inc, Taipei, has acquired Princeton Publishing Labs Inc, a desk-top publishing start-up in Princeton, New Jersey: the two-year-old company develops and markets hardware and software that integrate the functions of desktop publishing and word processing; it was backed by investors led by Citicorp Venture Capital and Mitsubishi International, and its products include 15 portrait multi-scan monitor, a high-resolution VGA controller board, and high-speed PostScript controller card for use with the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II and compatible laser printers – including Acer’s LP-76.