This article contains a description of the Apple Color StyleWriter 4500 printer.

Apple Color StyleWriter printers are designed to work seamlessly with Mac OS-based computers, and provide excellent print quality and speed. The Apple Color StyleWriter 4500 produces crisp, laser-quality black text at speeds of up to five pages per minute, and can print on virtually any type of media --from index cards and envelopes to plain paper and transparencies to banner paper.

But color capabilities are where this printer truly shines. In addition to supporting Apple's ColorSync color-matching technology, the Color StyleWriter 4500 comes with everything required to let you get started printing true photorealistic images within minutes, using a combination of six color inks to print up to millions of colors. So you can take your favorite digital image--whether it was captured using a digital camera or a scanner, imported from a CD-ROM of stock images, or downloaded from the Internet--and print it out in vivid color.

If the ability to print photo-realistic images sparks your creativity, you'll be glad to know that the Color StyleWriter 4500 also comes with a number of features designed to support your creative impulses. You get software that can help you with multimedia printing projects ranging from tiny postcards to immense banners--including a vast library of images. There's even an application that can help you create geneologies or company organizational charts and get them ready to post to the Internet World Wide Web.

So if you want a high-quality color printer that can improve your productivity and enhance your creativity, the Apple Color StyleWriter 4500 is the one for you.

Features:

Amazing photorealistic color images-- right out of the box

• Comes with everything you need--including ink cartridges, a serial cable, and even paper samples--to print photorealistic color images and color and black-and-white documents

• Features bundled photo-editing software that lets you create and print everything from family photos to personalized T-shirt transfers
• Includes additional bundled applications that let you customize banners, greeting cards, and calendars, and design web pages

• Prints high-resolution documents: up to 600 by 600 dots per inch for black and white and up to 600 by 300 dots per inch for color
• Prints at speeds of up to 5 pages per minute in black and white and 1.7 pages per minute in color--so you can enjoy quality results fast
• Takes advantage of ColorSync color-matching technology, for the best possible match between the colors you see on your screen and the colors you see on the printed page
• Uses pigment-based black ink, which provides crisp, dark black printing that's also water-resistant
• Lets you work with scalable fonts--so you can customize your documents

• Supports quick connection to--and easy software installation on--virtually any Mac OS-based computer
• Can be economically shared using the built-in LocalTalk support.
• Includes built-in paper trays that let you work with a variety of media, including plain, coated, and glossy paper; envelopes; index cards; labels; transparencies; and continuous-feed banner pages
• Offers software features designed to streamline the printing process, such as print preview, manual two-sided printing, and back-to-front printing

Ordering Information:

Apple Color StyleWriter 4500, Order No. M5663LL/A. Includes:

• Apple Color StyleWriter 4500 printer
• Color PhotoGrade Ink Cartridge
• Color Ink Cartridge
• Black Ink Cartridge
• Ink Cartridge storage case
• Two Color PhotoGrade paper samples
• Peripheral-8 serial cable
• AC power adapter
• User's manual
• CD-ROM containing the following:

Color Ink Cartridge, Order No. M5694G/A

Black Ink Cartridge, Order No. M5693G/A

Apple High-Quality Papers: