Laserwriter

LaserWriter II Apple LaserWriter II In 1988, to address the need for both an affordable printer and a professional printer, the LaserWriter II was designed to allow for complete replacement of the computer circuit board that operates the printer.

After the LaserWriter 8500, Apple discontinued the LaserWriter product line in 1997 when Steve Jobs returned to Apple.

Beyond LaserWriter II The aforementioned LaserWriter models were fixed at 300 dpi resolution.

Other LaserWriter models hatnote Building on the success of the original LaserWriter, Apple developed many further models.

The LaserWriter and LaserWriter Plus printers included high quality, scalable Adobe PostScript fonts built into their ROM memory.

Apple introduced the AppleTalk PC Card in early 1987, allowing PCs to join AppleTalk networks and print to LaserWriter printers.

Apple renewed its agreements with Adobe for the use of PostScript in its printers, resulting in lower royalty payments to Adobe, who was beginning to license printer controllers capable of competing directly with Apple's LaserWriter printers.

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As a result, the LaserWriter was also one of Apple's most expensive offerings.

Chapter Steve Jobs and the LaserWriter.

Description Hardware The LaserWriter used the same Canon CX printing engine as the HP LaserJet, and as a consequence early LaserWriters and LaserJets shared the same toner cartridges and paper trays.

However, the LaserWriter featured AppleTalk support that allowed the printer to be shared among as many as sixteen Macs, meaning that its per-user price could fall to under $450, far less expensive than HP's less-advanced model.

In March 1985, the Apple LaserWriter was the first printer to ship with PostScript, sparking the desktop publishing (DTP) revolution in the mid-1980s.

One hacker ( Don Lancaster ) used the game I/O to drive a LaserWriter printer.

The LaserWriter offered a generally faithful proofing tool for preparing documents for quantity publication, and could print smaller quantities directly.

This could be as simple as a network of Ethernet Mac IIs trying to talk to a LaserWriter.

Three years later in 1991, two updated versions of the LaserWriter II were produced.