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Color StyleWriter 2400 and LaserWriter 16/600 PS

Apple announced two products on 1 September 1994: Color StyleWriter 2400 and LaserWriter 16/600 PS.

It was the 7th of 9 dated moments the archive holds for 1994, 45 days after the previous one, 18 July 1994.

Color StyleWriter 2400 product photograph

Sunghwan Yoon from New York, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

What Apple announced

Color StyleWriter 2400

Printers · StyleWriter

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.

LaserWriter 16/600 PS

Printers · LaserWriter

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.

Color StyleWriter 2400 product photograph
Color StyleWriter 2400

Sunghwan Yoon from New York, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

LaserWriter 16/600 PS product photograph
LaserWriter 16/600 PS

CC BY-SA 3.0

Also in 1994

Sources

  1. Color StyleWriter 2400 · Wikipedia
  2. LaserWriter 16/600 PS · Wikipedia

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