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Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Product Shot

Features

Excellent print quality

  • Offers 600-dpi resolution, enhanced with built-in FinePrint technology for precise, smooth text and line art
  • Includes built-in support for PhotoGrade gray-scale image enhancement (requires an additional 4MB of RAM)
  • Provides a choice of 64 scalable TrueType fonts for printing in any size and in a wide variety of styles

High performance

  • Comes with 8MB of RAM, expandable up to 32MB
  • Includes a powerful RISC processor:the 25-MHz AMD 29030
  • Features a dedicated I/O processor
  • Prints an impressive 16 pages per minute (A4), which makes it the fastest printer in its price range. Prints 17 pages per minute letter size.

Robust networking and multiplatform compatibility

  • Supports any LocalTalk network
  • Provides built-in support for Novell NetWare IPX, EtherTalk, and TCP/IP Ethernet networks
  • Includes a parallel port for bidirectional parallel communications
  • Provides automatic emulation, protocol, and port switching
  • Allows simultaneous connection to Macintosh, DOS, Windows, and UNIX computing environments

Expandability

  • Supports optional large-capacity internal and external hard disk drives for additional font storage
  • Offers optional Fax Card, which lets your printer send and receive both Group III and PostScript faxes
  • Lets you expand its paper-handling capabilities with an optional 500-sheet feeder and 75-envelope feeder
  • Complies with EPA's EnergyStar guidelines for energy-efficient operation

Description

The Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS is a high-performance PostScript laser printer that offers a number of advanced capabilities, including exceptional print quality, unrivaled speed, extensive networking compatibility, and flexible expansion options. It's ideal for workgroup users who require superior quality output, have demanding printing needs, and work in organizations with Macintosh, Windows, Novell Netware, or multivendor computing environments.

With its 600-dot-per-inch resolution enhanced with FinePrint technology, in addition to its PhotoGrade support, the Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS provides the outstanding print quality you need--fast. In fact, the printer features a fast print engine, high-performance RISC processor-based controller, and dedicated input/output processor, which combine to provide impressive printing speed. This high performance is supported by the Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS printer's extensive connectivity capabilities, which allow it to be shared easily by users of Macintosh, Power Macintosh, DOS, Windows, and UNIX systems. The Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS features built-in support for Ethernet networking (through EtherTalk, TCP/IP, or Novell NetWare) as well as a bidirectional parallel port and a LocalTalk port. And all ports stay active simultaneously, so the Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS can accept jobs from a variety of computers without the users having to change a single setting. To support this extensive connectivity, the printer features automatic port, protocol, and emulation switching (between the PostScript Level 2 and PCL 5 languages).

In addition to its outstanding print capabilities, the Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS printer offers yet another way to communicate--through fax transmission. When you add the user-installable Fax Card, you can use the printer to exchange faxes with any Group III or PostScript fax machine, from both Macintosh and Windows computers. Faxes that you receive are printed on plain paper at up to 600-dots-per-inch resolution, offering print quality far better than that of most dedicated fax machines or other fax card solutions. And this convenient fax send-and-receive capability is accessible to anyone's computer on the network, making it yet another way in which the Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS makes superior functionality an economical proposition.

Technical Specifications

Print engine and controller

  • True laser engine
  • 25-MHz AMD 29030 RISC processor
  • 80C186 I/O processor

Print quality

  • 600-dpi resolution
  • FinePrint, Apple's resolution-enhancement technology
  • Enhanced 600-dpi gray-scale imaging:
  • --Standard (effective 106 lines/inch dithered halftone, 126 gray levels)
  • --PhotoGrade, Apple's graphic image enhancement technology (requires an additional 4MB of RAM for a total of 12MB minimum)

Memory

  • 8MB of RAM standard
  • Expandable to 32MB with optional upgrades

Interfaces

  • Simultaneous connection to Ethernet, LocalTalk, and bidirectional parallel interfaces
  • Simultaneous support for AppleTalk, Novell NetWare IPX, and TCP/IP networking protocols
  • Internal and external SCSI ports for hard disk font storage

Print speed

  • 16 (A4 size) to 17 (letter size) pages per minute (actual speed varies depending on images printed and computer used)

Fonts

  • Apple Font Library: 64 fonts total
  • --29 fonts in ROM from the following font families: ITC Avant Garde Gothic, ITC Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times, ITC Zapf Chancery, and ITC Zapf Dingbats
  • --35 fonts on Macintosh disk from the following font families: Chicago, Delphian, ITC Garamond Narrow, Geneva, Helvetica Black, Helvetica Compressed, Lubalin Graph, Lucida Bright, Machine, Monaco, Nadianne, New York, Old English Text, Onyz, Oxford, Swing, and Zeal
  • Prints any TrueType or PostScript fonts

Languages supported

  • PostScript Level 2
  • PCL 5

Storage

  • Optional internal 245MB hard disk drive

Paper capacities

  • Standard
  • --100-sheet multipurpose tray (also holds up to 10 envelopes)
  • --250-sheet letter cassette
  • Optional
  • --500-sheet feeder (with universal cassette)
  • --Envelope feeder: up to 75 envelopes

Print materials

  • Media: 20- to 24-lb. (60 to 80 g/m) stock from cassette; up to 32-lb. stock (135g/m) manually
  • Paper: U.S. letter, U.S. legal, A4, A5, and B5
  • Labels, envelopes, most textured stock, and transparencies
  • Envelopes: Common #10, Monarch, C5, and DL

Power requirements

  • U.S. domestic and Japanese versions:
  • --90 -100 VAC, 48 - 52 Hz, 58 - 62 Hz103.5 - 126.5 VAC, 58 - 62 Hz
  • European version:
  • --198 - 264 VAC, 48 - 52 Hz

Power consumption

  • Operating mode: 390 W (max average)
  • Standby mode: 125 W (max average)
  • Energy-saving mode: 26 W

Environmental requirements

  • Temperature: 50deg. to 90deg. F (10deg. to 32deg. C)
  • Humidity: 20% to 80% noncondensing
  • Toner cartridge transit environment: -4deg. to 104deg. F (-20deg. to 40deg. C)

Size and weight

  • Height: 12.1 in. (30.7 cm)
  • Width: 16.7 in. (42.4 cm)
  • Depth: 16.9 in. (42.9 cm)
  • Weight: 40.0 lb. (18.0 kg)

System requirements

  • One of the following personal computers:
  • --An Apple Macintosh computer with system software version 7.1 or later and at least 4MB of RAM. QuickDraw GX is also supported.
  • --An IBM or IBM-compatible computer with Microsoft Windows versions 3.1 or later and at least 1MB of RAM (2MB recommended), or MS-DOS version 3.3 or later and at least 640K of RAM.

Ordering Information

Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS

  • Order No. M2471LL/A
  • Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS
  • Toner cartridge
  • User's guide
  • Limited warranty

Options and accessories

  • Order No. M2473G/A
  • LaserWriter Toner Cartridge
  • Order No. M2650G/A
  • LaserWriter 16/600 PS 500-Sheet Feeder(supports letter, legal, A4, B5 paper) Includes 500-sheet universal cassette
  • Order No. M2649G/A
  • LaserWriter 16/600 PS Envelope Feeder (capacity for 75 envelopes)
  • Order No. M5862G/A
  • LaserWriter 500-Sheet Universal Cassette (supports letter, legal, A4, B5 paper)
  • Order No. M6525G/A
  • LaserWriter 250-Sheet Universal Cassette (supports letter, legal, A4, B5 paper)
  • Order No. M3298LL/A
  • LaserWriter 16/600 PS Fax Card (U.S.)
  • Order No. M3620/A
  • LaserWriter 16/600 PS Fax Kit (International)
  • Order No. M3297G/A
  • LaserWriter 16/600 PS 245MB Internal Hard Disk Drive
  • Order No. M1507LL/A
  • Macintosh 4MB Memory Expansion Kit (1-4MB SIMM)
  • Order No. M0329Z/B
  • Apple Ethernet Thin Coax Transceiver (cable not included)
  • Order No. M0432LL/A
  • Apple Ethernet AUI Adapter
  • Order No. M0437Z/B
  • Apple Ethernet Twisted-Pair Transceiver
Product specifications are subject to change. Check with your authorized Apple reseller for the most current information about product specifications and configurations.
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Just one LaserWriter 16/600 PS with a PostScript Fax Card gives every Macintosh or PC user on the network a laser printer and a plain-paper fax machine.

(c) 1994 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, EtherTalk, LaserWriter, LocalTalk, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S.A. and other countries. Chicago, FinePrint, Geneva, Monaco, New York, PhotoGrade, TrueType, and Zeal are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Helvetica, Times, and Palatino are registered trademarks of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its subsidiaries. ITC Avant Garde Gothic, ITC Bookman, ITC Garamond, ITC Zapf Chancery, and ITC Zapf Dingbats are registered trademarks of International Typeface Corporation. Mention of non-Apple products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of these products. All understandings, agreements, or warranties, if any, take place directly between the vendors and the prospective users.

August 1994. Product specifications are subject to change without notice. Printed in U.S.A.

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