PrintNet Enterprise Suite (PNE), a web-based application allowing administrators to network and manage all Printronix line-matrix printers from a single computer, was launched in 2007.

[3] Printronix was founded in 1974 by Robert A. Kleist and business partners Gordon B. Barrus and David Mayne.

In the spring of 1974, in a garage in Playa del Rey, California, seven high technology pioneers got together and started a new company.

[4] Initially working out of Leo Emenaker's garage in Playa Del Rey, California, Barrus developed and invented what he christened as the P300, a 300-line-per-minute (LPM) prototype line printer[5] series.

The company would eventually incorporate, go public on the Nasdaq, and experience great success in the ensuing years with the emergence of the personal computer.