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Color LaserWriter 12/600, Color StyleWriter 2200 and LaserWriter 4/600 PS

Apple announced three products on 1 June 1995: Color LaserWriter 12/600, Color StyleWriter 2200 and LaserWriter 4/600 PS.

It was the 6th of 9 dated moments the archive holds for 1995, 17 days after the previous one, 15 May 1995.

Color LaserWriter 12/600 product photograph

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What Apple announced

Color LaserWriter 12/600

Printers · LaserWriter

The Color LaserWriter was a line of PostScript four-color laser printers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. in the mid-1990s. These printers were compatible with PCs and Apple's own Macintosh line of computers; these printers were also able to connect to large networks by way of the use of an 10baseT Ethernet port. Two models were released.

Color StyleWriter 2200

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 4/600 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.

Also in 1995

Sources

  1. Color LaserWriter 12/600 · Wikipedia
  2. Color StyleWriter 2200 · Wikipedia
  3. LaserWriter 4/600 PS · Wikipedia

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