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Apple Daisy Wheel Printer and Apple Dot Matrix Printer

Apple announced two products on 1 October 1982: Apple Daisy Wheel Printer and Apple Dot Matrix Printer.

It is the only dated moment the archive holds for 1982, 304 days after the previous one, 1 December 1981.

Apple Daisy Wheel Printer product photograph

Apple Computer, scanned by bitsavers · Unverified — archive.org scan of an Apple brochure

What Apple announced

Apple Daisy Wheel Printer

Printers · Printers · discontinued 1 December 1983

The Apple Daisy Wheel Printer is a daisy wheel printer manufactured by Qume and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. in the 1980s. It utilized the ASCII character set and used continuous form paper, or with an optional feeder, cut sheet paper. The printer included several different 130-character "daisy" print wheels (e.g., Courier, Prestige Elite, Gothic, Executive) in English, French, German, and other languages. These 130-character print wheels are unique to the Apple DWP; the standard Qume printwheel has 96 characters.

It could be used with the Lisa system, Apple III system, and Apple IIe or Apple II Plus system if the Super Serial Interface Card was installed.

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Apple Dot Matrix Printer

Printers · Printers · discontinued 1 December 1983

The Apple Dot Matrix Printer (often shortened to Apple DMP) is a printer that was manufactured by C. Itoh and sold under the Apple Computer, Inc. label in 1982 for the Apple II series, Lisa, and the Apple III. It was succeeded by the ImageWriter in 1984.

The Apple DMP is the last parallel port printer sold under the Apple label; all subsequent Apple printers (ImageWriter, ImageWriter II, Scribe, LaserWriter, etc.) were serial port printers.

Sources

  1. Apple Daisy Wheel Printer · Wikipedia
  2. Apple Dot Matrix Printer · Wikipedia

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