Imagewriter

From Mac Guides

The Imagewriter was an early dot-matrix printer made by Apple in the mid-80s. It came in two varieties, standard carriage (8.5" wide) and wide carriage (11"), and could utilize single sheets or continuous feed paper with either a tractor or friction feed. It had a serial interface, which made it unique in the pre-USB era of parallel printers. The Imagewriter's external enclosure was the standard Apple beige of the day.

In 1985, Apple released the successor to the original Imagewriter, the Imagewriter II. At the time of introduction, it's outer case followed the then-standard Apple Snow White design language introduced with the Apple //c, but transitioned to the more recent "platinum" color in the late 80s. The Imagewriter II had the ability to use four-color ribbons for limited color printing.

The last member of the Imagewriter line to come to market was the Imagewriter LQ (Letter Quality), release in 1987. This wide-carriage, 27-pin dot matrix printer was capable of 320x216 DPI printing and, unlike the workhorse Imagewriter II, was considered somewhat unreliable.