· Release
Apple released one product on 1 May 1996: LaserWriter 12/640PS.
It was the 9th of 14 dated moments the archive holds for 1996, 9 days after the previous one, 22 April 1996.
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.
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