Apple Computer Inc is reportedly lining up a trio of new printers for the summer, designed to work with both Macintosh and MS-DOS and Windows machines. In addition they will incorporate optional boards to enable them to receive Group III faxes. According to MacWeek, the Laserwriter Select 360, and the LaserWriter Pro 800 and 810 should be unveiled at the Mac Expo in Boston – but in line with the company’s decision to expand into the Microsoft Corp Windows world, all three will ship with Windows utilities for configuring them. The magazine says that the LaserWriter Select 360 is based on a new 600dpi, 10 page per minute Fuji Xerox Corp engine and an NCR Corp RISC controller chip, and apart from the obligatory AppleTalk interface it will have Centronics and RS-232 interfaces, but apparently no Ethernet option. The LaserWriter Pro 800 is said to be a version of the LZR 1560 large format printer from Hitachi Ltd’s Woodland Hills, California-based Dataproducts Corp, and will have an external SCSI port for a hard disk, and boards for Ethernet and SNMP management. It will also be based on a Fuji Xerox engine, but with a 16MHz Weitek Corp 8200 RISC proces sor. The model 810 will be a fast er 20 page per minute version of the 800 with Ethernet interface and management built in as standard.
