the Rhein Neckar Apple User Group RNAUG Newsletter Volume 8, Number 3 March 1993 Offers Near-Laser Printer Resolution! Low Cost, Faster, & laser Quality! Ink~ Printer The StyleWriter II Considering ink jet printers? The new Apple Color Primer™ The original Apple® Style Writer® ink jet printer is Apple's first coior ink jet printer that offers users high-quality brought laser quaUty, low cost printing to tbe desktop. The color printing-now at an affordable prtce. new Apple StyleWriter Il printer incorporates that same bigb ItS ColorSyncTM color-matching technology lets the user quality, 360 dpi technology- at twice the speed! lt is a great produce documents with exact and unchanging color from cost, quality, ease of use, and overall footprint value. scanner to monitor to printer. It uses GraySbare™, new printer The small footprint, compared to the HP OeskWriter, is a driver software, that allows password-protected printer sharing, real plus for users with limited desk space, such as students in optimizes printing for specific paper types, and enables back­ a college dorm. The product will have strong appeal for boU1 ground printing. From its one-button installation tO its no-mess small business and education users. Most users will find this ink cartridges, the Apple Color Printer is designed for ease of printer faster and ea.~ier to use. use. With the Apple Style Writer 11 , the speed increase is In combination with the Color OneScanner™, the Apple acheived by the combined use of several technologies: a new, Color Printer is a solid color solution for libraries, administrators. higher firing rate ink cartridge, improved primer electronics. and student publishing operations. The Apple Color Printer is an and the new printer driver. The ink is still water based, like the ideal solution for mainstream business users who want to original Style Writer and rhe HP Desk Writer. produce color presentations straight from the desktop and print to The paper handling has been simplified-now, after transparencies. connecting the printer and installing the ink cartridge, drop a In addition, the Apple Color stack of paper in and begin to Printer is one of the most versa­ The Rhein-Neckar Apple Users Group is a private organization of print. There are no levers to set or l:ile color printers in terms of the 26th Aiea Support Group IAW USAREUR Reg 210-1. buttons to push, users set-up the paper handling. It supports The RNAVG Newsleller is an independent publication not affiliat­ printer for paper mode. tabloid size ( 11 "x 17", A3)-­ (d or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by User purging, or cleaning of especially important for users Apple Computer. Inc. The opinions. statements. positions. and the print cartridge is now automat­ such as engineering profession­ views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher and are ically handled by electronics. [n als who need to print large not intended 10 be the opinions, statements. positions, or views of the original StyleWriter, when a drawings-as well as letter, Apple Computer. Inc. A4, and legal size formal~ for cartridge was first installed the general purpose use. A single The RNAUG Newsletter is published using Aldus/Silicon Beach user bad to perform a ·'purging" paper tray holds all of the clif­ Personal Press 2.0 on a Macintosh SE/30. The color cover was action, which primed the ink car­ primed on a Hewlett Packard DeskWriter C. For infonnation, tridge before the first printing. The ferent sizes. eliminating the conunents, ads. or articles for publication. comact Hanle Lavagaini, time and expeme of handling Editor. CMR 419 Box 46&. APO AE 09102, 07263-1519. StyleWr iter 11 does this automati­ multiple paper trays. cally when users power up the See Color: Continued on Page 2 See Style Writer: Continued on Page 2 the Rhein Neckar Apple User Group Style Writer Continued from Page 1 lf.l Minutes of March Meeting ~ ~~ printer after installing a new Style Writer Il cartridge. I Color Mac Classic - PB Duo @m Up to l 00 pages of 20 pound paper may be placed into an M ~ automatic sheet feeder, integral to the primer, as opposed to the ~ Dock Make RNAUG Debut ~ split design of the original StyleWriter. Further, the same set- tJ ~ tings are used for 1ransparancies as for paper. ~fil Mark Twain Village, Heidelberg- March 11, 1993 ~I--" The only time you need to change lever positions is to prim @ The Man.:h rncc::ting uf U1e Rhein Neckar Apple Users Group ~ envelopes. The paper load lever on the side of the printer is ~ opened with Apple Computer's new Color Classic Mac using ~ then set to the envelope icon. and the forms thickness lever ~ its built in microphone to record member's voices as they came ~, inside the front cover is set to the envelope icon. The user then ~ in. Members also bad a cllance to go hands-on with tbe new inserts the envelopes, up to 15 at a time, and prims. ~ PowerBook Duo, its docking Station. and the new Apple 16" fl With Apple's new GrayShareThf software, the StyleWriter Il ~ 1 printer may be shared on a network. This means that a remote ~ monitor. Meanwhile, Treasurer Paul Kostelnik was again doing 1-:~ user can print to a non- f@. hrisk business selling diskettes and ribbons. In fact, we are "The Style Writer has PostScript'rM printer ~ again out of 800k, 3.5" DSDD diskettes. though we still have Wj connected to a host ~ I.4MB , 3.5" HD diskettes and 5.75" floppies. ~ been one of the most Macintosh® on an @ ~ successful printers ever. AppleTalk® network. t~ bec:~~~i~~n~~~a~~~~~:~e1p~'~n1~~!~~ga~~~ub~c:1~1d~~ I The Sty/eWriter II is a The print driver must be ~ 15 April, the third Thursday instead of the second Thursday. ~ installed on the remote ~ Jim again had the regrettable duty of saying farewell to a ~ Apple Macintosh{©. and ~ ~ feature enhanced valuable user group member. This time it was John Wothe, wbo ~ replacement for the same the printer must be ~ selected in the printer m not only has been doing the ribbon reinking service for I~ RNAUG, but bas also produced several Mac Disks of the . price." zone that the host 'I~ resides. Month. Our heartfelt thanks go to John and we wish him the The host Macintosh user sets up the printer to be shared in ~ best of luck back in Wisconsin. {If anyone out there would like the Chooser, once the sharable printer is selected. GrayShare I to volunteer to keep our reinking service going, please contact works with the original Style Writer. the Apple Personal Jim Clark. It's not hard, but it is a valuable service to our LaserWriter® LS, and the new LaserWriter Select ~00. members, and we pr(!Vide the supplies and equipment.-Ed.] Additionally, in the Setup dialog, users may create a running 001 RNAUG has started to receive some of the items the log file of printer usage, even if printer sharing is not enabled. - members approved for purchase. The t0ta1 order cost $312.65 GrayShare represents a new extension to printer funccionali- , and includes 36 Apple logo coffee mugs, 10 Apple pins, lO ty in that it adds the flexibility of printer sharing to the low cost~ of direct connect, non-PostScript Apple printers. If you are Apple keyri.ngs. 5 disk wallets, and a travel mug and a large T- I using AppleTalk® Remote Access, you can even print to a I shirt to see if they would be good door prizes. We also renewed . shared printer while on the road. , our membership with the Apple Educator, which has been a ~ The StyleWriter has been one of the most successful printers~ valuable source of Apple 11 information (see page 5). I ever. The StyleWriter II is a feature-enhanced replacement for Regarding the need to reorder 800k diskettes, a motion was ~ the same price. I from the floor to authorize the RNAUG officers to ~~~ received The StyleWriter ll Printer with cable lists for$359 with ink * automatically reorder smaller amounts of supplies in order to ~-,;, cartridges costing$19. maintain a stockage © 1993 Apple Computer, lnc. s ~ level. The motion was ~ ,J~ seconded and ~ ~;;w~~m.w ?'.Jmr.i.:w~~ff•,.•-W)J. zL approved by the ~ attending members!:f@ Color Continued from PaRe 1 without objections. I Jim stated that the Like all Apple printers, the new Apple Color Printer has all details of the process essential features built in. The printer also features a self- : would be worked out cleaning printhead that senses automatically when the ink jets by the next meeting. ~ need to be cleaned, and does so without user 1mervenuon, I ensuring the best quality output at all times. ~ rec~~~~e1:~ copy I The Apple Color Printer is compatible with any Macintosh ~-~ of M.Y.O.B., a finan- ¥1 system running System 7™ or later. For best performance, cial management Apple recommends 4 megabytes of RAM or greater on the ~ program from CPU. ; Apple's New Color Classic was The Apple Color Printer with accessory kit and four ink ~ Teleware, Inc. (the 1~ at RNAUG's March meeting cartridges (Black. Yellow, Magenta. and Cyan) lists for S2,349. ~ initials stand for Mind I Black ink cartridges list for $25: color ink cartridges, for $35. ~ ~~ 1· See Minutes: Continued on Page 3 © l993 Apple Computer, lnc. S ~ ;.m - !ti " I 2 the Rhein Neckar Apple User Group Minutes Continued.from Page 2 :., . ~ . .· ...l"'.;.• ·N•·: •.·_>s. ,,• t"' ·•"D.<·'. • ~ E<· = ~~@ Your Own Business). The program will be evaluated by i~ Treasurer Paul Kostelnik.