ApplePrinters A range of printers to suit every need.
Apple’s award-winning printers provide exceptional quality to suit a range of color and blackand-white printing needs. From personal use at home, in school, in the office, or even on the road, to top-of-the-line laser printing in the office, there’s an Apple® printer that’s perfect for the job. Apple technology makes the difference.
Apple delivers the best possible results through printing technologies unavailable on any other printers. TrueType® outline font technology ensures that even the most affordable Apple printers provide excellent type quality, with fonts that scale easily to any size. FinePrint™ technology delivers smooth text and crisp line art. Dot-Matrix Printer
that include not only Macintosh® computers, but also PCs running Windows software.
PhotoGrade and Color PhotoGrade technologies produce near-photorealistic images. And ColorSync® technology automatically acts to ensure the closest possible match between colors on the screen and colors on the printed page.
The total document processing solution.
Apple printers complement your other equipment, to streamline all of your work with documents— not only printing, but also faxing and scanning. For example, you can add a fax card to some network LaserWriter printers to enable them to send and receive high-quality plain-paper faxes— right at your desktop. And because the Apple OneScanner™ 600/27 also employs ColorSync color-matching technology, you can be assured of consistent, accurate color from scanned image to on-screen representation to printed output.
Printer sharing made easy.
All Apple ink-jet printers can be directly connected to an EtherTalk® network using the optional StyleWriter® EtherTalk Adapter, which attaches easily to the serial port on the printer. And the Color StyleWriter 2500 can also be directly connected to a LocalTalk® network via the optional LocalTalk Module. The rest of Apple’s LaserWriter® printers offer a variety of networking support, with many of them able to function on networks Ink-Jet Printers
Exceptionally affordable compact personal printers that offer great printed results.
ImageWriter® II
Color StyleWriter 1200
Apple’s affordable dot-matrix printer.
Laser-quality gray-scale Apple’s convenient lowprinting at an affordable cost desktop color price. printing solution offering laser-quality black.
Print speed in ppm (pages per minute)
2 ppm (draft mode); 0.5 ppm (best mode)*
3 ppm (normal mode); 2 ppm (best mode)*
3 ppm (black and white); 5 ppm (black and white); 5 ppm (black and white); 0.33 ppm (color)* 0.66 ppm (color)* 0.3 ppm (color)*
Print quality in dpi (dots per inch)
144 dpi
720 by 360 dpi (black and white with edge smoothing); 360 by 360 dpi (gray scale); enhanced with GrayShare®
720 by 360 dpi (black and white with edge smoothing); 360 by 360 dpi (color and gray scale); includes ColorShare® and ColorSync
720 by 360 dpi (black and white); 360 by 360 dpi (color and gray scale); includes ColorShare and ColorSync
720 by 360 dpi (black and white, gray scale, and color); includes ColorShare and ColorSync
Supported languages
QuickDraw™ and QuickDraw GX
QuickDraw and QuickDraw GX
QuickDraw and QuickDraw GX
QuickDraw and QuickDraw GX
QuickDraw and QuickDraw GX
Connectivity and networking
High-speed serial
High-speed serial; GrayShare software allows printer sharing over LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and TokenTalk® networks; optional adapter allows you to connect the printer directly to an EtherTalk network
High-speed serial; ColorShare software allows printer sharing over LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and TokenTalk networks; optional adapter allows you to connect the printer directly to an EtherTalk network
High-speed serial; ColorShare software allows printer sharing over LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and TokenTalk networks; optional adapter allows you to connect the printer directly to an EtherTalk network
High-speed serial; ColorShare software allows printer sharing over LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and TokenTalk networks; optional kits allow you to connect the printer directly to a LocalTalk or EtherTalk network
Fonts
4 fonts
64 scalable TrueType fonts
64 scalable TrueType fonts
64 scalable TrueType fonts
64 scalable TrueType fonts
Paper handling
Tractor feed for continuous fanfold paper and forms; single sheets; envelopes; optional 100-sheet feeder
Multipurpose tray for 100 sheets or 15 envelopes; supports printing of 2 or 4 reduced-size pages on a single sheet
Multipurpose tray for 100 sheets or 15 envelopes; supports printing of 2 or 4 reduced-size pages on a single sheet
Multipurpose tray for 30 sheets or 5 envelopes; supports printing of 2 or 4 reduced-size pages on a single sheet
Multipurpose tray for 100 sheets or 15 envelopes; supports printing of 2 or 4 reduced-size pages on a single sheet
Ribbons/ink cartridges
One black ribbon or one multicolor ribbon
One black ink cartridge
Single CMY color ink cartridge and single high-capacity black ink cartridge
Two separate ink cartridges (black and CMY color) or single high-capacity black ink cartridge
Single color ink cartridge (contains one black ink tank and one CMY color ink tank) or single highcapacity black ink cartridge
Energy efficiency
Energy Star compliant
Energy Star compliant
Energy Star compliant
Energy Star compliant
Energy Star compliant
Color StyleWriter 1500
Color StyleWriter 2200
Color StyleWriter 2500
All the features of a color desktop ink-jet printer in a sleek, portable design; ideal for use with a PowerBook® computer.
High-quality color printing—even impressive photorealistic images—at an economical price.
Personal LaserWriter Printers
Network LaserWriter Printers
Printers that are ideal for personal use at home, school, or the office.
Printers that can be used on multiplatform networks— and are ideal for workgroups.
Personal LaserWriter 300
LaserWriter 4/600 PS
LaserWriter 12/640 PS
LaserWriter 16/600 PS
Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS
Apple’s most affordable laser printer.
An affordable PostScript personal laser printer with exceptional print quality.
A flexible, high-quality laser printing solution for Mac OS and Windows users.
A high-performance workgroup laser printer with outstanding printing speed.
The convenient, highquality color laser printing solution for Mac OS and Windows users.
Print speed in ppm (pages per minute)
4 ppm
4 ppm
12 ppm
17 ppm (letter size); 16 ppm (A4 size)
12 ppm (black and white); 3 ppm (color); 1 ppm (transparencies)
Print quality in dpi (dots per inch)
300 dpi; enhanced with GrayShare
600 dpi
600 dpi with FinePrint; and PhotoGrade**
600 dpi (default) with FinePrint; 600 dpi and PhotoGrade with an additional 4MB of memory
600 dpi with Color PhotoGrade and ColorSync
Supported languages
QuickDraw and QuickDraw GX
Adobe™ PostScript™ Level 2
Adobe PostScript Level 2 and PCL 5
Adobe PostScript Level 2; PCL 5; built-in automatic emulation and port switching
Adobe PostScript Level 2
Connectivity and networking
High-speed serial port; GrayShare software allows printer sharing over LocalTalk, EtherTalk, and TokenTalk networks
LocalTalk port supports AppleTalk protocol; LaserWriter Bridge 2.0 software allows printer sharing on Ethernet and Token Ring networks
LocalTalk port supports EtherTalk protocol; Ethernet port supports EtherTalk, TCP/IP, and Novell NetWare IPX protocols; bidirectional parallel port; all ports are autosensing and autoswitching
LocalTalk port supports AppleTalk protocol; Ethernet port supports AppleTalk, TCP/IP, and Novell NetWare IPX protocols; bidirectional parallel port; internal and external SCSI ports
LocalTalk port supports EtherTalk protocol; Ethernet port supports EtherTalk, TCP/IP, and Novell NetWare IPX protocols; IEEE 1284 bidirectional parallel port; internal and external SCSI ports
Fonts
39 scalable TrueType fonts
64 scalable TrueType and 35 PostScript fonts
64 scalable TrueType and 35 PostScript fonts
64 scalable TrueType and 35 PostScript fonts
64 scalable TrueType and 39 PostScript fonts
Paper handling
100-sheet tray; manual feed supports straightthrough paper path
100-sheet tray; manual feed supports straight-through paper path
250-sheet universal cassette and 80-sheet multipurpose tray; offers these printer options: Duplex Printing Unit** , 500-Sheet Cassette and Feeder, Envelope Cassette (requires 500Sheet Cassette), Faceup Output Tray
100- and 250-sheet trays; optional 500sheet tray and 75envelope feeder
250-sheet tray; multipurpose tray for 100 sheets; optional 250sheet feeder
Fax capability
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Optional LaserWriter 16/600 PS Fax Card (user installable)
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Toner cartridges
Personal LaserWriter Toner Cartridge
Personal LaserWriter Toner Cartridge
LaserWriter 12/640 PS Toner Cartridge
LaserWriter Toner Cartridge
Color LaserWriter Toner Cartridges
Energy efficiency
Energy Star compliant
Energy Star compliant
Energy Star compliant
Energy Star compliant
Energy Star compliant
*Actual speed depends on computer processor speed and document complexity. ** Requires at least 12MB of RAM.
Apple Computer, Inc. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 996-1010 http://www.apple.com/ © 1996 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, AppleTalk, ColorShare, ColorSync, EtherTalk, GrayShare, ImageWriter, LaserWriter, LocalTalk, Macintosh, PowerBook, StyleWriter, TokenTalk, and TrueType are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. FinePrint, Mac, OneScanner, and QuickDraw are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. September 1996. Product specifications are subject to change without notice. Printed in the U.S.A.
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Printed on recycled paper.