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Apple Color StyleWriter 1500
The Color StyleWriter 1500 is Apple's most affordable, easy-to-use color printer for the Macintosh. It comes complete with an all-in-one color ink cartridge, a black-only ink cartridge, and a serial cable so it's ready to print color right out of the box. It offers laser-quality black and white printing at a resolution of 720 by 360 dots per inch (dpi), and 360 by 360 dpi for color and grayscale. The Color StyleWriter 1500 offers near-laser speeds of up to three pages per minute for black and 0.3 pages per minute in color. The printer's compact design and light weight make it an ideal choice for small work spaces.
The Apple Color StyleWriter 1500 offers a complete solution for easy and affordable color printing on Macintosh or PowerBook computers. This innovative ink-jet printer is perfect for home, education, and small-business users who require color printing capabilities at an affordable price.
Designed to fit easily into even the smallest of work spaces, the Apple Color StyleWriter 1500 provides a convenient, quiet, personal printing option— but one with advanced features. It produces output with impressive quality, offering laser-quality, 720- by 360-dpi resolution with edge smoothing on black-and-white pages, and 360- by 360-dpi resolution on pages containing color or gray-scale images. It prints quickly— 3 pages per minute for black-and-white pages in normal mode and 0.3 page per minute for color. And it takes advantage of Apple’s advanced ColorSync color- matching capabilities, so that the colors in your printed output match as closely as possible the colors on your display.
To support its performance, the Color StyleWriter 1500 provides native PowerPC software to speed the processing and printing of complex documents. And if you’re looking for a direct- connect networking alternative, the Color StyleWriter 1500 can be used with the StyleWriter EtherTalk Adapter, for connection to an EtherTalk network.
In addition to performance, the Color StyleWriter 1500 also rates high on convenience and flexibility. It comes complete with all of the cables and ink cartridges you need (color and black) and offers plug-and-play connection to virtually any Macintosh computer. It can be set up and installed easily. For flexible document design, the Color StyleWriter 1500 printer offers 64 available TrueType fonts for a wide range of type styles and sizes. And it can print not only on plain paper but also on a wide range of media, including glossy and premium paper, envelopes, transparencies, labels, and back-print film.
So if you want convenient color printing capabilities— at an affordable price— the Color StyleWriter 1500 is your ideal printing solution.
Features
Outstanding print quality at an affordable price
- Produces great-looking documents containing color images at 360 by 360 dots per inch
- Offers laser-quality printing by smoothing the edges of text and line art using 720 by 360 dots per inch for crisp black-and-white pages
- Supports ColorSync color-matching technology, ensuring the closest possible match between the colors you see on the screen and the colors that print
- Is priced low enough to make color accessible even to home users
Versatility, flexibility, and convenience
- Provides fast output— up to 3 pages per minute for black and white— in both the ink-saving draft mode and the sharp-quality normal mode
- Takes advantage of the high performance of PowerPC processor–based computers to speed the processing and printing of complex documents
- Features a small, sleek design that fits on virtually any desktop
- Offers the option of printing on a wide range of media, including plain paper, transparencies, glossy and premium paper, back-print film, labels, and envelopes
- Automatically turns itself on when it receives a document and turns itself off when it finishes printing
- Gives you a choice of 64 scalable TrueType fonts for printing in any size and in a variety of styles
- Can be used with the StyleWriter EtherTalk Adapter, for direct connection to an EtherTalk network
Ease of use
- Comes with everything you need to get started right away; includes all necessary cables and both black and color ink cartridges
- Supports plug-and-play connection to virtually any Macintosh, PowerBook, or Power Macintosh computer
- Provides “desktop printing”; you can print files by simply dragging them onto a desktop printer icon
- Lets you print two or four reduced-size pages on a single sheet of paper, saving paper, ink, and time for review of multipage documents
- Allows you to place watermarks in the background of your documents quickly and easily
Technical Specifications
Print method
- Thermal ink jet
Print quality
- 720 by 360 dpi for edge smoothing on black-and-white documents
- 360 by 360 dpi for color and gray-scale documents
Interfaces
- High-speed serial (885 Kbps)
- Optional direct network connection through the Apple StyleWriter EtherTalk Adapter
Speed
- Up to 3 pages per minute for black-and-white normal mode
- Up to 0.3 page per mixnute for color and gray scale
- Actual speed depends on the documents printed and the Macintosh used
Fonts
- TrueType font support (see below for the 64 TrueType fonts available with the Apple Color StyleWriter 1500)
- Adobe PostScript font support when used with Adobe Type Manager software
Ink cartridges
- Color Ink Cartridge—all-in-one print head and color ink tanks (cyan, magenta, and yellow)
- Black Ink Cartridge for black-and-white printing
Paper capacity
- Multipurpose tray that accommodates up to 100 sheets of paper or 15 envelopes
Print materials
- 16- to 24-lb. (60 to 90 g/m2) bond or copier paper
- Paper: U.S. letter, U.S. legal, A4, executive, and envelopes (#10 business and #6)
- Most letterhead and colored stock, labels, and envelopes
- For superior graphics and imaging results, Apple recommends Apple premium or glossy paper and Apple back-print media
Printable surface
- Maximum printable line: 8.0 in. (20.3 cm)
- Minimum margins: 0.25 in. (0.63 cm)
Size and weight
- Height: 6.9 in. (17.6 cm)
- Width: 13.7 in. (34.8 cm)
- Depth: 8.5 in. (21.5 cm)
- Weight: 5.5 lb. (2.5 kg)
Power requirements
- U.S./Japan: 100 to 120 V AC; 48 to 62 Hz
- Europe/Australia: 220 to 240 V AC; 48 to 62 Hz
Power consumption
- Operating mode: 22.6 W (maximum) at 120 V and 220 V
Operating environment
- Temperature: 59° to 86° F (15° to 30° C)
- Humidity: 10% to 80% noncondensing
System requirements
- An Apple Macintosh personal computer with a 68020 or later processor, Power Macintosh system, or PowerBook computer, with at least 4MB of RAM (5MB recommended) and a hard disk drive
- System software version 7.1 or later
