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Apple Color Printer, LaserWriter Pro 600 and StyleWriter II

Apple announced three products on 1 January 1993: Apple Color Printer, LaserWriter Pro 600 and StyleWriter II.

It was the 1st of 14 dated moments the archive holds for 1993, 74 days after the previous one, 19 October 1992.

Apple Color Printer product photograph

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What Apple announced

Apple Color Printer

Printers · StyleWriter · discontinued 1 February 1994

Apple has produced several lines of printers in its history, but no longer produces or supports these devices today. Though some early products use thermal technology, Apple's products can be broadly divided into three lines: ImageWriter (dot matrix), LaserWriter (PostScript laser), and StyleWriter (thermal inkjet).

LaserWriter Pro 600

Printers · LaserWriter · discontinued 1 October 1993

The LaserWriter is a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter sold by Apple, Inc. from 1985 to 1988. It was one of the first laser printers available to the mass market. In combination with WYSIWYG publishing software like PageMaker that operated on top of the graphical user interface of Macintosh computers, the LaserWriter was a key component at the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution.

StyleWriter II

Printers · StyleWriter · discontinued 17 April 1995

StyleWriter is a line of inkjet serial printers by Apple, targeted mainly towards consumers. They produced print quality that was better than the dot matrix ImageWriters, and were cheaper than the LaserWriters. All but a few models contained Canon print engines, while the last few were re-badged HP Deskjet printers. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he discontinued most of the company's accessory product lines, including the StyleWriter and LaserWriter.

Also in 1993

Sources

  1. Apple Color Printer · Wikipedia
  2. LaserWriter Pro 600 · Wikipedia
  3. StyleWriter II · Wikipedia

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