LaserWriter Pro 630

The LaserWriter Pro 630 was a high-end monochrome laser printer from the LaserWriter series that was released by Apple Computer for the professional market in January 1993, along with the lower-end LaserWriter Pro 600.

Description
The Pro 630 could print at a resolution of 600-dpi from a Canon LBP-EX print engine that could output 8 pages-per-minute with a rated life of 450,000 pages. It is compatible with toner cartridges. It consumes less power in a more compact, but taller, enclosure than the preceding LaserWriter II series. It also utilized PhotoGrade to improve the printed appearance of lower resolution (300-dpi) grayscale images with finer halftones.

The 25 MHz Motorola 68030 processor could rasterize images from PostScript Level 2 or 4+ printer data. The data could be transmitted through a LocalTalk network to its serial port, or a direct PC connection to its  serial port or. It also supports faster EtherTalk networking over its proprietary AAUI Ethernet port.

Included fonts

 * ITC Avant Garde
 * ITC Bookman
 * Courier
 * Helvetica
 * Helvetica Narrow
 * New Century Schoolbook
 * Palatino
 * Symbol
 * Times
 * ITC Zapf Chancery
 * ITC Zapf Dingbats

Discontinuation
The Pro 630 was discontinued in September 1994 and superseded by the LaserWriter 16/600 PS.

Legacy support
Apple phased out support for printing over the old AppleTalk-based EtherTalk protocol in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Printing over is possible, but this requires configuring an  address over EtherTalk by a Mac running Apple Printer Utility in classic Mac OS or the Classic environment.