| At the January MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, Apple
was expected to announce its first serious entries into
the color imaging market. The QuickDraw-based Apple Color
Printer, tentatively priced at $2599, is a 360-dpi color
ink-jet printer that supports page sizes of up to 11 by 17
inches (European A3 tabloid) at 65 screen lines per inch.
Although it doesn't have a LocalTalk port, the printer is
easily shared by multiple Macs: A new printer extension
called GrayShare lets other computers on a network direct
their output to the printer, which plugs into the SCSI
port of any Mac. GrayShare also handles color and
gray-scale imaging. The company also planned to announce the Apple Color OneScanner, a single-pass, color flatbed device that supports 24-bit color (16.7 million hues) at resolutions of from 75 to 600 dpi. It comes with Ofoto 2.0, a new color version of the one-button scanning software. Copyright 1994-1997 BYTE |