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Apple Color StyleWriter 2500 Documentation

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Apple's user documentation for the Apple Color StyleWriter 2500: the 1996 user's guide and the October 1996 data sheet. Apple's service manual is described at Color StyleWriter 2500 Service Source.

User's guide (1996)

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Color StyleWriter 2500: Setting up, connecting, and using your printer is Apple Computer's owner's manual for the printer, copyright 1996, part number 030-8133-A on the back cover; the scan has 151 PDF pages with a text layer.[1]

Contents

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

  • Chapter 1, Setting Up Your Printer (p. 1): safety, unpacking (p. 3), Power Macintosh virtual memory, cartridge, connection, software, nozzle check (p. 21).
  • Chapter 2, Printing (p. 23): colour options, desktop printer icons, background printing, sharing, LocalTalk or EtherTalk connection (p. 48).
  • Chapter 3, Tips on Paper, Quality, Speed, and Cost (p. 49).
  • Chapter 4, Maintaining Your Printer (p. 55): ink tanks, cartridges, storing the spare cartridge (p. 62), cleaning (p. 63).
  • Chapter 5, Troubleshooting (p. 65): installation, crashes, PowerBook printing, the lights (p. 72), slow printing, jams, multiple feeds, messages, memory, print quality, ink economy (p. 88).
  • Appendices A-G (pp. 89-129): technical information, fonts, font list, ColorSync, QuickDraw GX, removing desktop printing software, packing and moving; index (p. 131).

Data sheet (1996)

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Apple's two-page product data sheet, L01705B, dated October 1996: features, ordering information with order numbers for the printer (M4236LL/A), cartridges, PhotoGrade kit, media, LocalTalk Module and StyleWriter EtherTalk Adapter, and specifications including printable area, power consumption (27.6 W) and system requirements.[2]

What these documents do not contain

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No take-apart, parts list, waste ink or EEPROM procedure and no electrical detail beyond the adapter rating. The data sheet's speed and power figures (5 pages per minute, 27.6 W) differ from the Service Source's (3 pages per minute, 20 W).[2]

Pages that cite these documents

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Download: Apple Color StyleWriter 2500 Users Guide 1996.pdf; Apple Color StyleWriter 2500 Data Sheet 1996.pdf

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Apple Computer, Color StyleWriter 2500: Setting up, connecting, and using your printer, 1996, 030-8133-A, File:Apple Color StyleWriter 2500 Users Guide 1996.pdf, contents pages iii-v and back cover.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Apple Computer, Apple Color StyleWriter 2500, L01705B, October 1996, File:Apple Color StyleWriter 2500 Data Sheet 1996.pdf.
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