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Apple Color StyleWriter 1500 Documentation

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Apple's user documentation for the Apple Color StyleWriter 1500: the user's guide and the January 1996 data sheet. Apple's service manual is described at StyleWriter 1500 Service Source.

User's guide

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Color StyleWriter 1500: Setting up and using your printer is Apple Computer's owner's manual for the printer, part number 030-8134-A on the back cover. The scan has 142 PDF pages with an OCR text layer.[1]

Contents

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Page numbers are the guide's own.[1]

  • Welcome (p. ix): main features, changes to the printing software that affect other StyleWriter and LaserWriter printers, system requirements (p. x).
  • Chapter 1, Setting Up Your Printer (p. 1): unpacking, installing the cartridge, connecting and plugging in (p. 10), software, checking the print nozzles (p. 21).
  • Chapter 2, Printing (p. 23): colour options, desktop printing, ColorShare (p. 44), EtherTalk connection (p. 48).
  • Chapter 3, Tips on Paper, Quality, Speed, and Cost (p. 49).
  • Chapter 4, Maintaining Your Printer (p. 53): replacing a cartridge (p. 54), storing the spare (p. 55), cleaning (p. 57).
  • Chapter 5, Troubleshooting (p. 59): installation, crashes, Power Macintosh and PowerBook printing, desktop printer icons, the power light (p. 66), jams and feeding, messages, memory, print quality, ink use (p. 80).

Data sheet

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Apple's two-page product data sheet, L01704A, January 1996: features, ordering information (printer M4428LL/A; colour cartridge M4609G/A; black cartridge M8041G/C; StyleWriter EtherTalk Adapter M4775LL/A; media), technical specifications (thermal ink jet, 885 kbit/s serial, 3 pages per minute black, 22.6 W) and system requirements.[2]

What these documents do not contain

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No take-apart, parts list or EEPROM procedure, and no electrical figures beyond the mains rating; the adapter output range, motor resistance and sensor voltages are in the Service Source.[1]

Pages that cite these documents

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Download: Apple Color StyleWriter 1500 Users Guide 1996.pdf; Apple Color StyleWriter 1500 Data Sheet 1996.pdf

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Apple Computer, Color StyleWriter 1500: Setting up and using your printer, 030-8134-A, File:Apple Color StyleWriter 1500 Users Guide 1996.pdf, contents pages iii-v and back cover.
  2. ↑ Apple Computer, Apple Color StyleWriter 1500, L01704A, January 1996, File:Apple Color StyleWriter 1500 Data Sheet 1996.pdf.
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