CONTACT:
Patrick Pedonti, Chief Financial Officer     Van Negris
Accent Color Sciences, Inc.   Kehoe, White, Savage &
Company, Inc.
(860) 610-4045 (212) 888-1616
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ACCENT COLOR SCIENCES COMPLETES
$4.5 MILLION PRIVATE EQUITY FINANCING

EAST HARTFORD, CT - JANUARY 13, 1998 - Accent Color
Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACLR), a development stage company,
today announced it has completed a private equity financing
of Convertible Preferred Stock and Common Stock warrants
with gross proceeds of $4,500,000.  The Zannett Securities
Corporation, based in New York City, facilitated the
transaction.

The Preferred Stock is convertible into the Company's Common
Stock at a conversion rate which is based on the future
market price of such shares.  The Preferred Stock is
redeemable by the Company under certain conditions and bears
an annual premium of 6 percent, payable in cash or stock at
the Company's option.  The Company issued warrants that
provide for the purchase of 300,000 shares of Common Stock
at $2.75 per share.  The conversion rate of the Preferred
Stock and the exercise price of the warrants are subject to
various terms and adjustments.

The Company expects to use the proceeds from the financing
for operations and working capital purposes.

Accent Color Sciences, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells
innovative, high-speed spot color printing systems -
Truecolor(tm) Systems - for the production printing and
production publishing segments of the printing industry.
Truecolor(tm) Systems, when integrated with high-speed,
digital, black-on-white printers, creates a system that
prints or highlights critical information in multiple colors
for large-volume applications.  Such applications include
billing statements, account statements, invoices, legal
notices, brochures, financial reports and short-run, on-
demand publications.

Press releases and other information are available on Accent
Color Sciences' World Wide Web site at
http://www.accentcolor.com.