Personal LaserWriter SC

The Personal LaserWriter NT was a monochrome laser printer from the LaserWriter series that was released by Apple Computer for the home office market in June 1990.

Description
The SC could print at a resolution of 300-dpi from a Canon LBP-LX print engine that could output 4 pages-per-minute with a rated life of 150,000 pages. It is compatible with HP LaserJet IIP toner cartridges.

Like the LaserWriter II SC before it, costs were reduced by eliminating LocalTalk networking and PostScript support. The slower 7.275 MHz Motorola 68000 processor could only handle images that were pre-rasterized by QuickDraw in a Macintosh computer. Adobe Type Manager or System 7's TrueType support was necessary for reproduction of scalable outline fonts. The data would then be transmitted over a SCSI connection. The smaller enclosure weighed about 13 pounds less than preceding LaserWriter II models with lower power consumption and cost in exchange for a shorter life expectancy.

Discontinuation
The SC was discontinued in September 1993 and was superseded by the Personal LaserWriter LS which replaced the SCSI connector with the more commonly used serial port. Another higher-output, but non-networkable, alternative was the LaserWriter Select 300.