StyleWriter

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StyleWriter refers to a series of ink printers from Apple for in-house Macintosh computers.

history

The printing mechanism comes from Canon , with later models from Hewlett-Packard ; Almost identical devices were sold by these manufacturers for IBM-compatible computers. Accordingly, the equivalent printers also used the same ink cartridges.

The StyleWriter replaced the ImageWriter dot matrix printer and was offered in parallel to the professional and then very expensive laser printers from Apple.

Without exception, the StyleWriters were QuickDraw printers without their own main processor . PostScript files could only be output with the help of raster programs. The StyleWriters were operated on the RS-422 interface, which all Macintoshs up to and including the platinum-gray PowerMacintosh G3 had. The interface was clocked by the printer so that the data could be transmitted to the printer at high speed. For some models there were adapters to integrate the printer into a LocalTalk or Ethernet network. Typical of the Apple design was the omission of almost all buttons that were still widely used on other printers at the time, such as a paper feed.

Other manufacturers partly adopted the term "... Writer". Hewlett-Packard (HP) offered its Macintosh-compatible printer under the name “Deskwriter” instead of Deskjet.

Models

  • StyleWriter
  • StyleWriter II
  • Portable StyleWriter
  • StyleWriter 1200
  • Color StyleWriter Pro
  • Color StyleWriter 1500
  • Color StyleWriter 2200
  • Color StyleWriter 2400
  • Color StyleWriter 4100
  • Color StyleWriter 4500
  • Color StyleWriter 6500

Individual evidence

  1. https://support.apple.com/kb/SP449?locale=de_DE