Apple 12/660 PS manual Features, Breakthrough print quality, Compatibility, Ease of use

Apple Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS

Features

Breakthrough print quality

•Offers true 600-dpi resolution for sharp text and graphics

•Provides superior color print quality, as well as high-quality black-and-white printing

•Uses Color PhotoGrade technology for near- photographic-quality color

•Supports ColorSync 2.1 for outstanding color matching

•Provides valuable tips and techniques that can help you enhance print performance when working with many popular graphics and page-layout applications

•Includes 39 PostScript and 64 TrueType fonts

Compatibility

•Works with Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, and UNIX software–based systems, as well as with the full line of Macintosh and Power Macintosh computers

•Offers a range of networking connections: standard LocalTalk, IEEE 1284 bidirectional parallel, and Ethernet (supporting AppleTalk, TCP/IP, and Novell NetWare protocols)

Ease of use

•Includes setup and installation* so you can get started printing immediately

•Offers easy, single-button installation of printing software and fonts

•Includes everything needed to print impres- sive color output; requires only seven printer supplies

•Includes a 250-sheet cassette and 100-sheet multipurpose tray; offers optional 250-sheet tray that supports letter, legal, A4, and B5

Superior productivity

•Prints an impressive 12 pages per minute for black and white, 3 pages per minute for color, and 1 page per minute for transparencies

•Provides impressive performance through its powerful RISC processor—the 30-MHz AMD 29030—and Apple-designed color-matching and compression ASICs

•Includes a SCSI interface for hard disk drive font storage

The Apple Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS is a high-performance, multiplatform Adobe PostScript color laser printer that provides outstanding results for both color and gray-scale printing. It’s ideal for anyone who requires conven- ient, superior-quality color printing capabilities.

Today, everyone—from senior executives to sales professionals to schoolteachers—is looking to improve the impact of printed documents by incorporating color. Color charts can highlight financial data, color logos can make product presentations more appealing, color graphics can grab— and hold—student interest, and on and on. Unfortunately, until now, high-quality color printing involved expensive specialized equipment that put it out of reach for most of those who could benefit from it.

The Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS provides a breakthrough in color printing performance. With its 600- dot-per-inch resolution, it provides the outstanding print quality you need—fast. Its performance contrib- utes to your efficiency; for example, the Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS can be used to print multiple color copies

(up to 180 per hour), making it perfect for producing handouts. And to help you get started using this printer quickly and efficiently, your purchase includes not only everything needed to start printing impressive color docu- ments right away, but also installation and setup*.

That convenience remains true over time, too, because the Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS requires only seven printer supplies and features an easy-access front-loading design. It also comes with valuable tips and tech- niques to help you get the best perfor- mance and image quality possible when working with many of the most popular graphics and page-layout applications. Add to that this printer’s easy and flexible networking capability, which lets you share its cost across an entire workgroup (including systems running Windows 95), and color printing has never been so simple.

So if you want convenient color printing—without a compromise in quality—the Apple Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS is the printer for you.

*Check with your authorized Apple dealer for availability in major metropolitan areas in the U.S.A.