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Apple Color Printer
Posted by: beachycove on 2008-11-27 17:37:46 Anyone ever clap eyes on one of these? Photo here (bottom right): http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/ads/ads/macintosh/whymac14.jpg (the rest of this brochure posted over on vectronicsappleworld is worth perusal for 68k fans, by the way) Description here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=11156 The printer seems a rare beast: an Apple inkjet about 2 ft wide with four separate inktanks from 1993-94. I have been in the Mac world for 20 years and this is the first I've heard of it.
Posted by: Gil on 2008-11-27 17:57:35 Must've been either a prototype or a very short-lived product.
Posted by: LCGuy on 2008-11-27 18:49:16 Ahh, I remember these. I remember seeing it in one of the catalogues that Dad bought home when we were planning to buy the LCIII, we were gonna go for one of these, but we ended up getting the StyleWriter II, since it was cheaper and smaller. (the Apple Colour Printer is huuuge). Saw one at an AASP that I did work experience at many years later, so yes, it was a shipping product, just not a very common one. Basically, its a Canon BJC-800 adapted for Macintosh use.
Posted by: shred on 2008-12-03 01:55:27 Yes, we sold a few of them in the day. As LCGuy said, they were a rebadged Canon, with very few changes made - for instance, the parallel port was still present and worked, you just had to pull a black rubber cover off the socket! I have a feeling that it even said it was a BJC-800 somewhere in the menus! They seemed to go ok, but were expensive and really only a good option for people who needed A3.
Posted by: Dog Cow on 2008-12-03 09:12:28 Never heard of it, though Apple has made more than one obscure printer over the years. Silentype, and the DMP come to mind. Nice brochure, though; I own 3 of the printers shown on it.
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