Macworld August 2010 Four Reasons Why The Laserwriter Mattered 2010
"Four Reasons the LaserWriter Mattered" is a one-page magazine article by Benj Edwards in Macworld, August 2010, p. 53, subtitled "Twenty-five years later, we look back at Apple's first laser printer". The two-page scan also includes the facing Working Mac reviews page from the same issue, which reviews 2010 printers and storage and has nothing to do with the LaserWriter.
What it covers
[edit | edit source]Edwards gives four reasons for the LaserWriter's importance:
- It assured Apple's position in graphic design.
- It launched PostScript: he calls it the world's first printer to use Adobe's page-description language, and notes that AppleTalk carried data to it at 230,400 bit/s.
- It was the first network printer: 30 to 40 Macs could share one LaserWriter over AppleTalk, and he dates the first HP LaserJet with the same capability to 1991.
- It put desktop publishing within reach of one person with a Mac.
He gives the price as $6,995 and places the printer in Apple's 1985 "Macintosh Office" initiative alongside AppleTalk, a file server and a Unix workstation.
What it does not contain
[edit | edit source]It is a short retrospective. It has no specifications, procedures, part numbers or diagrams. For servicing the LaserWriter use Apple's LaserWriter Technical Procedures (January 1985) or Apple Service Level 1 The Macintosh Office Technical Procedures 072-0163 March 1986.
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