EXHIBIT 3.1
 
                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
          OF FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                            CALCOMP TECHNOLOGY, INC.

                        (Pursuant to Section 242 of the
               General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)


     CalComp Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), does
hereby certify that the first sentence of Article 4 of the Corporation's Fourth
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is amended to read in its
entirety as follows:

             The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall
        have authority to issue is One Hundred Thirty Million (130,000,000)
        shares, of which One Hundred Twenty-Five Million (125,000,000) shares of
        the par value of One Cent ($.01) per share, amounting in the aggregate
        to One Million Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($1,250,000), shall be
        Common Stock and Five Million (5,000,000) shares of the par value of One
        Cent ($.01) per share, amounting in the aggregate to Fifty Thousand
        Dollars ($50,000), shall be Preferred Stock .

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this Certificate of
Amendment on this 6th day of July, 1998.
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                                          CALCOMP TECHNOLOGY, INC.


                                          By:  _________________________    
                                               John C. Batterton
                                               Chief Executive Officer

Attest:

_________________________
William F. Porter, Jr.