As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 17,
1997.                                Registration No. 333-

               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     Washington, D.C. 20549

                            FORM S-8
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                Under the Securities Act of 1933

                  ACCENT COLOR SCIENCES, INC.
       (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

     Connecticut                                06-1380314
(State or other jurisdiction                 (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)            Identification No.)

                   800 Connecticut Boulevard
                   East Hartford, CT  06108

     ACCENT COLOR SCIENCES, INC. 1995 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
                    (Full title of the plan)

                      NORMAN L. MILLIARD
             PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

                  Accent Color Sciences, Inc.
                   800 Connecticut Boulevard
                   East Hartford, CT  06108
                        (860) 610-4000

   (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

                CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                          Proposed     Proposed    
Title of                  Maximum      Maximum     
Securities   Amount       Offering    Aggregate    Amount of
 to be        to be        Price       Offering    Registration
Registered Registered(1) Per Share(2)  Price(2)      Fee(2)

Common Stock,
no par value 1,500,000 shares $4.375  $6,562,500  $1,968.75

(1)  The registration statement also includes an indeterminable
number of additional shares that may become issuable as a result
of terminated, expired, forfeited or surrendered awards
respecting Common Stock, or pursuant to the antidilution
adjustment provisions of the plan.

(2)  In accordance with Rule 457 calculated on the basis of the
average of the high and low prices for the Common Stock on the
Nasdaq Stock Market on June 12, 1997.

     PART I. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a)
PROSPECTUS

     The information required by Part I is included in documents
sent or given to participants in the Registrant's 1995 Stock
Incentive Plan (the "Plan") pursuant to Rule 428(b)(l) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

     PART II. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

     Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

     The Registrant is subject to the informational and reporting
requirements of Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and in
accordance therewith files reports, proxy statements and other
information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission").  The following documents, which are on file with
the Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement
by reference:

     (1)  The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to
Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. 

     (2)  All other reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or
15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year
covered by the document referred to in (1) above.

     (3)  The description of the common stock of the Registrant,
no par value per share, contained in the Registrant's
Registration Statement filed under section 12 of the Exchange
Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of
updating such description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior
to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all shares of common stock offered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all shares of common stock then remaining unsold,
shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be
part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.  Any
statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified
or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the 
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other 
subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be 
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.  Any statement so modified or superseded shall not
be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute
a part of this Registration Statement.

     Item 4.  Description of Securities

     Not applicable.

     Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

     The legality of the Common Stock being offered hereby will
be passed upon for the Company by Murtha, Cullina, Richter and
Pinney, Hartford, Connecticut.  As of the date hereof, partners
of Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney may be deemed to
beneficially own approximately 30,000 shares of Common Stock of
the Company.  Willard F. Pinney, Jr., a partner in the firm is a
director and Secretary of the Registrant.

     Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     The Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of
Connecticut in 1993.  Section 33-771 ("Section 33-771") of the
Connecticut Business Corporation Act (the "CBCA") states that,
unless its certificate of incorporation otherwise provides, a
Corporation formed under Connecticut law prior to January 1, 1997
shall provide its directors with the full amount of
indemnification that the corporation is permitted to provide to
such directors pursuant to Section 33-771, subject to certain
limitations set forth in Section 33-775 ("Section 33-775") of the
CBCA  which requires a determination in each case, in the manner
set forth in Section 33-775, that indemnification of the director
is permissible.  Section 33-775(4) provides that a corporation
incorporated under Connecticut law prior to January 1, 1997 shall
also indemnify each of its officers who is not a director to the
same extent as the corporation is permitted to indemnify a
director under Section 33-771, as limited by Section 33-775.

     In general, Section 33-771 provides that a corporation may
indemnify an individual made a party to a preceding because he is
or was a director against liability incurred in the preceding if:
(1) he conducted himself in good faith; and (2) he reasonably
believed (A) in the case of conduct in his official capacity with
the corporation, that his conduct was in its best interests and
(B) in all other cases, that his conduct was at least not opposed
to its best interests; and (3) in the case of any criminal
proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was
unlawful.

     The Certificate of Incorporation of the Company includes a
provision limiting the personal liability of a director to the
Company or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of
duty as a director, to an amount equal to the amount of
compensation received by the director for serving the Company
during the calendar year in which the violation occurred subject
to a number of exceptions, including violations involving a
knowing and culpable violation of law, a breach of duty which
enables a director or an associate to receive an improper
personal gain, conduct showing a lack of good faith and conscious
disregard of duty to the Company, a sustained and unexcused
pattern of inattention, or the approval of an illegal
distribution of assets of the Company to its shareholders.  An
associate of a director, in terms of improper personal gains, is
defined as (A) any corporation or organization of which a Company
director is an officer or partner or is, directly or indirectly,
the beneficial owner of ten percent or more of any class of
voting stock, (B) any trust or other estate in which a Company
director has at least ten percent beneficial interest or as to
which a Company director serves as trustee or in a similar
fiduciary capacity and (C) any relative or spouse of a Company
director, or any relative of such spouse who has the same name as
the Company director.  In addition, the Company also maintains a
directors' and officers' insurance and reimbursement policy.


     Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed

     Not applicable.

     Item 8.  Exhibits

     The Exhibit Index on page 7 is incorporated herein by 
reference.

     Item 9.  Undertakings

     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or
          sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to
          this Registration Statement:

                   (i)  To include any prospectus required by
                section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                   (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts
                or events arising after the effective date of
                the Registration Statement (or the most recent
                post-effective amendment thereof) which,
                individually or in the aggregate, represent a
                fundamental change in the information set forth
                in this Registration Statement; and

                   (iii) To include any material information
                with respect to the plan of distribution not
                previously disclosed in this Registration
                Statement or any material change to such
                information in this Registration Statement;

provided, however that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if
the Registration Statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3,
and the information required to be included in a post-effective 
amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports 
filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) 
of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement.

          (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any
          liability  under the Securities Act, each such
          post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
          Registration Statement relating to the securities
          offered therein, and the offering of such securities at
          that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide
          offering thereof.

          (3)   To remove from registration by means of a
          post-effective amendment any of the securities being
          registered which remain unsold at the termination of
          the offering.

     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act,
each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual 
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is 
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall 
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the 
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities 
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering 
thereof.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and
controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in
the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment
by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the
opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by
the final adjudication of such issue.

                           SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
the  Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form
S-8 and as duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in
the City of East Hartford, Connecticut, on the 17th day of June,
1997.

                              ACCENT COLOR SCIENCES, INC.



                              By:/s/ Norman L. Milliard
                              Norman L. Milliard
                              President and Chief Executive
                              Officer


     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
this registration statement or amendment thereto has been signed
by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.

     Signature                Title                    Date


/s/ Norman L. Milliard   President, Chief         June 17, 1997
  Norman L. Milliard     Executive Officer and
                         Director


/s/ Patrick J. Pedonti                            June 17, 1997
 Patrick J. Pedonti      Vice President,
                         Treasurer, Chief Financial
                         Officer (Principal Financial
                         and Accounting Officer)


/s/ Norman L. Milliard   Attorney-in-fact for:    June 17, 1997
 Norman L. Milliard


Richard J. Coburn        Chairman of the Board
                         of Directors
Richard Hodgson          Director
Willard F. Pinney, Jr.   Director
Raymond N. Smith         Director
Robert H. Steele         Director
Peter Teufel             Director


                         Exhibit Index

     Exhibit
     Number          Description

     4.1 (1)    Restated Certificate of Incorporation
                of  the Company

     4.2 (1)    By-Laws of the Registrant

     5          Opinion of Murtha, Cullina, Richter
                and Pinney

     23.1       Consent of Murtha, Cullina,
                Richter and Pinney (included in Exhibit 5).

     23.2       Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP

     24         Power of Attorney


__________________

     (1)  Incorporated herein by reference from the Exhibits to
     the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
     December 31, 1996.
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 17,
1997.                                Registration No. 333-

               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     Washington, D.C. 20549

                            FORM S-8
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                Under the Securities Act of 1933

                  ACCENT COLOR SCIENCES, INC.
       (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)

     Connecticut                                06-1380314
(State or other jurisdiction                 (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)            Identification No.)

                   800 Connecticut Boulevard
                   East Hartford, CT  06108

     ACCENT COLOR SCIENCES, INC. 1995 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
                    (Full title of the plan)

                      NORMAN L. MILLIARD
             PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

                  Accent Color Sciences, Inc.
                   800 Connecticut Boulevard
                   East Hartford, CT  06108
                        (860) 610-4000

   (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

                CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                          Proposed     Proposed    
Title of                  Maximum      Maximum     
Securities   Amount       Offering    Aggregate    Amount of
 to be        to be        Price       Offering    Registration
Registered Registered(1) Per Share(2)  Price(2)      Fee(2)

Common Stock,
no par value 1,500,000 shares $4.375  $6,562,500  $1,968.75

(1)  The registration statement also includes an indeterminable
number of additional shares that may become issuable as a result
of terminated, expired, forfeited or surrendered awards
respecting Common Stock, or pursuant to the antidilution
adjustment provisions of the plan.

(2)  In accordance with Rule 457 calculated on the basis of the
average of the high and low prices for the Common Stock on the
Nasdaq Stock Market on June 12, 1997.

     PART I. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a)
PROSPECTUS

     The information required by Part I is included in documents
sent or given to participants in the Registrant's 1995 Stock
Incentive Plan (the "Plan") pursuant to Rule 428(b)(l) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

     PART II. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

     Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

     The Registrant is subject to the informational and reporting
requirements of Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and in
accordance therewith files reports, proxy statements and other
information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission").  The following documents, which are on file with
the Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement
by reference:

     (1)  The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to
Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. 

     (2)  All other reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or
15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year
covered by the document referred to in (1) above.

     (3)  The description of the common stock of the Registrant,
no par value per share, contained in the Registrant's
Registration Statement filed under section 12 of the Exchange
Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of
updating such description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior
to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all shares of common stock offered hereby have been sold or which
deregisters all shares of common stock then remaining unsold,
shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be
part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.  Any
statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified
or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the 
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other 
subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be 
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.  Any statement so modified or superseded shall not
be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute
a part of this Registration Statement.

     Item 4.  Description of Securities

     Not applicable.

     Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

     The legality of the Common Stock being offered hereby will
be passed upon for the Company by Murtha, Cullina, Richter and
Pinney, Hartford, Connecticut.  As of the date hereof, partners
of Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney may be deemed to
beneficially own approximately 30,000 shares of Common Stock of
the Company.  Willard F. Pinney, Jr., a partner in the firm is a
director and Secretary of the Registrant.

     Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     The Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of
Connecticut in 1993.  Section 33-771 ("Section 33-771") of the
Connecticut Business Corporation Act (the "CBCA") states that,
unless its certificate of incorporation otherwise provides, a
Corporation formed under Connecticut law prior to January 1, 1997
shall provide its directors with the full amount of
indemnification that the corporation is permitted to provide to
such directors pursuant to Section 33-771, subject to certain
limitations set forth in Section 33-775 ("Section 33-775") of the
CBCA  which requires a determination in each case, in the manner
set forth in Section 33-775, that indemnification of the director
is permissible.  Section 33-775(4) provides that a corporation
incorporated under Connecticut law prior to January 1, 1997 shall
also indemnify each of its officers who is not a director to the
same extent as the corporation is permitted to indemnify a
director under Section 33-771, as limited by Section 33-775.

     In general, Section 33-771 provides that a corporation may
indemnify an individual made a party to a preceding because he is
or was a director against liability incurred in the preceding if:
(1) he conducted himself in good faith; and (2) he reasonably
believed (A) in the case of conduct in his official capacity with
the corporation, that his conduct was in its best interests and
(B) in all other cases, that his conduct was at least not opposed
to its best interests; and (3) in the case of any criminal
proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was
unlawful.

     The Certificate of Incorporation of the Company includes a
provision limiting the personal liability of a director to the
Company or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of
duty as a director, to an amount equal to the amount of
compensation received by the director for serving the Company
during the calendar year in which the violation occurred subject
to a number of exceptions, including violations involving a
knowing and culpable violation of law, a breach of duty which
enables a director or an associate to receive an improper
personal gain, conduct showing a lack of good faith and conscious
disregard of duty to the Company, a sustained and unexcused
pattern of inattention, or the approval of an illegal
distribution of assets of the Company to its shareholders.  An
associate of a director, in terms of improper personal gains, is
defined as (A) any corporation or organization of which a Company
director is an officer or partner or is, directly or indirectly,
the beneficial owner of ten percent or more of any class of
voting stock, (B) any trust or other estate in which a Company
director has at least ten percent beneficial interest or as to
which a Company director serves as trustee or in a similar
fiduciary capacity and (C) any relative or spouse of a Company
director, or any relative of such spouse who has the same name as
the Company director.  In addition, the Company also maintains a
directors' and officers' insurance and reimbursement policy.

     Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed

     Not applicable.

     Item 8.  Exhibits

     The Exhibit Index on page 7 is incorporated herein by 
reference.

     Item 9.  Undertakings

     The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or
          sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to
          this Registration Statement:

                   (i)  To include any prospectus required by
                section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                   (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts
                or events arising after the effective date of
                the Registration Statement (or the most recent
                post-effective amendment thereof) which,
                individually or in the aggregate, represent a
                fundamental change in the information set forth
                in this Registration Statement; and

                   (iii) To include any material information
                with respect to the plan of distribution not
                previously disclosed in this Registration
                Statement or any material change to such
                information in this Registration Statement;

provided, however that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if
the Registration Statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3,
and the information required to be included in a post-effective 
amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports 
filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) 
of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement.

          (2)   That, for the purpose of determining any
          liability  under the Securities Act, each such
          post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
          Registration Statement relating to the securities
          offered therein, and the offering of such securities at
          that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide
          offering thereof.

          (3)   To remove from registration by means of a
          post-effective amendment any of the securities being
          registered which remain unsold at the termination of
          the offering.

     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act,
each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual 
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is 
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall 
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the 
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities 
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering 
thereof.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and
controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in
the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment
by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the
opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by
the final adjudication of such issue.

                           SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
the  Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form
S-8 and as duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in
the City of East Hartford, Connecticut, on the 17th day of June,
1997.

                              ACCENT COLOR SCIENCES, INC.

                              By:/s/ Norman L. Milliard
                              Norman L. Milliard
                              President and Chief Executive
                              Officer

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
this registration statement or amendment thereto has been signed
by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.

     Signature                Title                    Date

/s/ Norman L. Milliard   President, Chief         June 17, 1997
  Norman L. Milliard     Executive Officer and
                         Director

/s/ Patrick J. Pedonti                            June 17, 1997
 Patrick J. Pedonti      Vice President,
                         Treasurer, Chief Financial
                         Officer (Principal Financial
                         and Accounting Officer)

/s/ Norman L. Milliard   Attorney-in-fact for:    June 17, 1997
 Norman L. Milliard

Richard J. Coburn        Chairman of the Board
                         of Directors
Richard Hodgson          Director
Willard F. Pinney, Jr.   Director
Raymond N. Smith         Director
Robert H. Steele         Director
Peter Teufel             Director

                         Exhibit Index

     Exhibit
     Number          Description

     4.1 (1)    Restated Certificate of Incorporation
                of  the Company

     4.2 (1)    By-Laws of the Registrant

     5          Opinion of Murtha, Cullina, Richter
                and Pinney

     23.1       Consent of Murtha, Cullina,
                Richter and Pinney (included in Exhibit 5).

     23.2       Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP

     24         Power of Attorney

__________________

     (1)  Incorporated herein by reference from the Exhibits to
     the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
     December 31, 1996.