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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 19, 1998.
                           Registration No. 333-

                                UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C.  20549
                         ____________________________

                                  FORM S-8
              REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                         ____________________________

                               PRINTWARE, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
              Minnesota                                         41-1522267
  (State or other jurisdiction of                            (I.R.S. Employer
  incorporation or organization)                           Identification No.)

                          1270 Eagan Industrial Road
                          Saint Paul, Minnesota  55121
               (Address of Principal Executive Offices and zip code)
                         ____________________________

                        PRINTWARE, INC. 1996 STOCK PLAN
                            (Full title of the Plans)
                         ____________________________

                              Daniel A. Baker, Ph.D.
                                    President
                                 Printware, Inc.
                           1270 Eagan Industrial Road
                          Saint Paul, Minnesota 55121
                                 (612) 456-1400
                     (Name, address and telephone number, 
                  including area code, of agent for service)

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                           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      Per Share        Price              Fee
__________       __________      _________       _________      ____________
<S>              <C>             <C>             <C>            <C>
Common Stock,    500,000 shares  $2.875          $1,437,500 (1) $424.06


(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee 
pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) and based upon the average of the high and low 
prices of the Company's Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market on June 
18, 1998.
</TABLE>
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                              INCORPORATION OF CONTENTS OF 
                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT BY REFERENCE

     A Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-08555) was filed with 
the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 22, 1996 covering the 
registration of 500,000 shares initially authorized for issuance under the 
Company's 1996 Stock Plan and additional shares authorized for issuance under 
the Company's 1986 Incentive Stock Option Plan and its Incentive Stock 
Option Plan of 1985.  Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this 
Registration Statement is being filed to register an additional 500,000 shares 
authorized for issuance under the 1996 Stock Plan.  This Registration 
Statement should also be considered a post-effective amendment to the 
previously filed Registration Statement.  The contents of the previously filed 
Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference.

                                    PART I

     Pursuant to Part I of Form S-8, the information required by Items 1 and 2 
of Form S-8 is not filed as a part of this Registration Statement.

                                   PART II

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission 
are hereby incorporated by reference:

     (a)  The Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-K for the fiscal year 
ended December 31, 1997.

     (b)  The Quarterly Report of the Company on Form 10-Q for the quarterly 
period ended April 4, 1998.

     (c)  The Definitive Proxy Statement dated March 13, 1998 for the Annual 
Meeting of Shareholders held on April 16, 1998.

	     (d)  The description of the Company's Common Stock as set forth in the 
	Company's Form S-1 Registration Statement dated June 27, 1996 (Registration 
	No. 333-03629), including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of 
	updating such description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prior to 
the completion or termination of this offering of shares of Common Stock 
shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration 
Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     The Company's Bylaws provide that the Company shall indemnify its 
officers, directors and employees in accordance with, and to the fullest 
extent permitted by, the provisions of the Minnesota Business Corporation Act,
as it may be amended from time to time.

     Section 302A.521 of the Minnesota Business Corporation Act provides that 
a corporation shall indemnify any person made or threatened to be made a party 
to a proceeding by reason of the former or present official capacity of the 
person against judgments, penalties, fines, including, without limitation, 
excise taxes assessed against the person with respect to an employee benefit 
plan, settlements, and reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees and 
disbursements, incurred by the person in connection with the proceeding if, 
with respect to the acts or omissions of such person complained of in the 
proceeding, the person:

     (1)  Has not been indemnified by another organization or employee 
benefit plan for the same judgments, penalties, fines, including, without 
limitation, excise taxes assessed against the person with respect to an 
employee benefit plan, settlements, and reasonable expenses, including 
attorneys' fees and disbursements, incurred by the person in connection with 
respect to the same acts or omissions; 
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     (2)   Acted in good faith; 

     (3)  Received no improper personal benefit and Minnesota Statutes, 
Section 302A.255 (regarding director conflicts of interest), if applicable, 
has been satisfied; 

     (4)  In the case of a criminal proceeding, has no reasonable cause 
to believe the conduct was unlawful; and 

     (5)  In the case of acts or omissions occurring in the official capacity 
described in subdivision 1, paragraph (c), clause (1) or (2), reasonably 
believed that the conduct was in the best interests of the corporation, or in 
the case of acts or omissions occurring in the official capacity described in 
subdivision 1, paragraph (c), clause (3), reasonably believed that the conduct 
was not opposed to the best interests of the corporation.  If the person's 
acts or omissions complained of in the proceeding relate to conduct as a 
director, officer, trustee, employee, or agent of an employee benefit plan, 
the conduct is not considered to be opposed to the best interests of the 
corporation if the person reasonably believed that the conduct was in the best 
interests of the participants or beneficiaries of the employee benefit plan.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.  (Filed electronically herewith)

	     4.1  Printware, Inc. 1996 Stock Plan (incorporated by reference to 
Exhibit 10.3 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, Commission 
File No. 333-03629)
     5.1  Opinion and Consent of Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P.
     23.1  Consent of Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.1)
     23.2  Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent auditors
     24.1  Power of Attorney (included on signature page)
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Item 9. Undertakings

(a)  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 of 1933;
          (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 the registration 
                 statement;
          (iii)  To include any material information with respect to the plan 
                 of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration 
                 statement or any material change to such information in the 
                 registration statement;

     Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(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 with or furnished to the 
Commission by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the 
registration statement.

     (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 
Securities Act of 1933, 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.

          (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes 
of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of 
the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of 
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an 
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the 
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.

          (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act of 1933 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 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 Act and will be governed by the final 
adjudication of such issue.
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                               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 has duly caused
this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Eagan, State of Minnesota, on 
June 19, 1998.


                               PRINTWARE, INC.


                               By    \s\ Daniel A. Baker
                               __________________________________
                               Daniel A. Baker, Ph.D., President
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                            POWER OF ATTORNEY

     The undersigned officers and directors of Printware, Inc. hereby 
constitute and appoint Daniel A. Baker and Thomas W. Petschauer, or either of 
them, with power to act one without the other, our true and lawful attorney-
in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for us 
and in our stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments 
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and all 
documents relating thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, 
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and 
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or 
advisable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and 
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming 
all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitutes, may lawfully do 
or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 
this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in 
the capacities indicated on June 19, 1998.

Signature

     \s\ Daniel A. Baker
____________________________________________
Daniel A. Baker, Ph.D., President, 
Chief Executive Officer and Director
(principal executive officer)

     \s\ Thomas W. Petschauer
____________________________________________
Thomas W. Petschauer, 
Chief Financial Officer 
(principal financial and accounting officer)

     \s\ Allen L. Taylor
____________________________________________
Allen L. Taylor, Ph.D., Director

     \s\ Brian D. Shiffman
____________________________________________
Brian D. Shiffman, Director
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 19, 1998.
                           Registration No. 333-

                                UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C.  20549
                         ____________________________

                                  FORM S-8
              REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                         ____________________________

                               PRINTWARE, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
              Minnesota                                         41-1522267
  (State or other jurisdiction of                            (I.R.S. Employer
  incorporation or organization)                           Identification No.)

                          1270 Eagan Industrial Road
                          Saint Paul, Minnesota  55121
               (Address of Principal Executive Offices and zip code)
                         ____________________________

                        PRINTWARE, INC. 1996 STOCK PLAN
                            (Full title of the Plans)
                         ____________________________

                              Daniel A. Baker, Ph.D.
                                    President
                                 Printware, Inc.
                           1270 Eagan Industrial Road
                          Saint Paul, Minnesota 55121
                                 (612) 456-1400
                     (Name, address and telephone number, 
                  including area code, 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      Per Share        Price              Fee
__________       __________      _________       _________      ____________
Common Stock,    500,000 shares  $2.875          $1,437,500 (1) $424.06

(1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee 
pursuant to Rule 457(c) and (h) and based upon the average of the high and low 
prices of the Company's Common Stock on the Nasdaq National Market on June 
18, 1998.
INCORPORATION OF CONTENTS OF 
                          REGISTRATION STATEMENT BY REFERENCE

     A Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-08555) was filed with 
the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 22, 1996 covering the 
registration of 500,000 shares initially authorized for issuance under the 
Company's 1996 Stock Plan and additional shares authorized for issuance under 
the Company's 1986 Incentive Stock Option Plan and its Incentive Stock 
Option Plan of 1985.  Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this 
Registration Statement is being filed to register an additional 500,000 shares 
authorized for issuance under the 1996 Stock Plan.  This Registration 
Statement should also be considered a post-effective amendment to the 
previously filed Registration Statement.  The contents of the previously filed 
Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference.

                                    PART I

     Pursuant to Part I of Form S-8, the information required by Items 1 and 2 
of Form S-8 is not filed as a part of this Registration Statement.

                                   PART II

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

     The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission 
are hereby incorporated by reference:

     (a)  The Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-K for the fiscal year 
ended December 31, 1997.

     (b)  The Quarterly Report of the Company on Form 10-Q for the quarterly 
period ended April 4, 1998.

     (c)  The Definitive Proxy Statement dated March 13, 1998 for the Annual 
Meeting of Shareholders held on April 16, 1998.

	     (d)  The description of the Company's Common Stock as set forth in the 
	Company's Form S-1 Registration Statement dated June 27, 1996 (Registration 
	No. 333-03629), including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of 
	updating such description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prior to 
the completion or termination of this offering of shares of Common Stock 
shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration 
Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     The Company's Bylaws provide that the Company shall indemnify its 
officers, directors and employees in accordance with, and to the fullest 
extent permitted by, the provisions of the Minnesota Business Corporation Act,
as it may be amended from time to time.

     Section 302A.521 of the Minnesota Business Corporation Act provides that 
a corporation shall indemnify any person made or threatened to be made a party 
to a proceeding by reason of the former or present official capacity of the 
person against judgments, penalties, fines, including, without limitation, 
excise taxes assessed against the person with respect to an employee benefit 
plan, settlements, and reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees and 
disbursements, incurred by the person in connection with the proceeding if, 
with respect to the acts or omissions of such person complained of in the 
proceeding, the person:

     (1)  Has not been indemnified by another organization or employee 
benefit plan for the same judgments, penalties, fines, including, without 
limitation, excise taxes assessed against the person with respect to an 
employee benefit plan, settlements, and reasonable expenses, including 
attorneys' fees and disbursements, incurred by the person in connection with 
respect to the same acts or omissions;
(2)   Acted in good faith; 

     (3)  Received no improper personal benefit and Minnesota Statutes, 
Section 302A.255 (regarding director conflicts of interest), if applicable, 
has been satisfied; 

     (4)  In the case of a criminal proceeding, has no reasonable cause 
to believe the conduct was unlawful; and 

     (5)  In the case of acts or omissions occurring in the official capacity 
described in subdivision 1, paragraph (c), clause (1) or (2), reasonably 
believed that the conduct was in the best interests of the corporation, or in 
the case of acts or omissions occurring in the official capacity described in 
subdivision 1, paragraph (c), clause (3), reasonably believed that the conduct 
was not opposed to the best interests of the corporation.  If the person's 
acts or omissions complained of in the proceeding relate to conduct as a 
director, officer, trustee, employee, or agent of an employee benefit plan, 
the conduct is not considered to be opposed to the best interests of the 
corporation if the person reasonably believed that the conduct was in the best 
interests of the participants or beneficiaries of the employee benefit plan.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.  (Filed electronically herewith)

	     4.1  Printware, Inc. 1996 Stock Plan (incorporated by reference to 
Exhibit 10.3 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, Commission 
File No. 333-03629)
     5.1  Opinion and Consent of Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P.
     23.1  Consent of Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.1)
     23.2  Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent auditors
     24.1  Power of Attorney (included on signature page)
Item 9. Undertakings

(a)  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 of 1933;
          (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 the registration 
                 statement;
          (iii)  To include any material information with respect to the plan 
                 of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration 
                 statement or any material change to such information in the 
                 registration statement;

     Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(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 with or furnished to the 
Commission by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the 
registration statement.

     (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 
Securities Act of 1933, 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.

          (b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes 
of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of 
the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of 
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an 
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the 
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.

          (h)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 
Securities Act of 1933 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 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 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 has duly caused
this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Eagan, State of Minnesota, on 
June 19, 1998.

                               PRINTWARE, INC.

                               By    \s\ Daniel A. Baker
                               __________________________________
                               Daniel A. Baker, Ph.D., President
POWER OF ATTORNEY

     The undersigned officers and directors of Printware, Inc. hereby 
constitute and appoint Daniel A. Baker and Thomas W. Petschauer, or either of 
them, with power to act one without the other, our true and lawful attorney-
in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for us 
and in our stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments 
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and all 
documents relating thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, 
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and 
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or 
advisable to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and 
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming 
all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitutes, may lawfully do 
or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 
this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in 
the capacities indicated on June 19, 1998.

Signature

     \s\ Daniel A. Baker
____________________________________________
Daniel A. Baker, Ph.D., President, 
Chief Executive Officer and Director
(principal executive officer)

     \s\ Thomas W. Petschauer
____________________________________________
Thomas W. Petschauer, 
Chief Financial Officer 
(principal financial and accounting officer)

     \s\ Allen L. Taylor
____________________________________________
Allen L. Taylor, Ph.D., Director

     \s\ Brian D. Shiffman
____________________________________________
Brian D. Shiffman, Director