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.LaserWriter Pro 630, Low End Mac. 1993-01-10. It also utilized PhotoGrade to improve the printed appearance of lower resolution (300-dpi) grayscale images with finer halftones.New Printers & Scanner by Mark H. Anbinder, TidBITS #159. 1993-01-18.
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The Pro 630 was discontinued in September 1994 and superseded by the LaserWriter 16/600 PS.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).Make Old Apple Printers Work in Snow Leopard by Adam Engst, TidBITs. 2009-10-06.Apple Filing Protocol Ethernet Networks, Classic Mac Networking, The Apple Fool. Accessed 2021-05-15. 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.Network Printer OS 9 by MisterMe, MacRumors Forums. 2006-04-26.
==References==
==External links==
*LaserWriter Pro 630: Technical Specifications at Apple
**LaserWriter Pro 600/630 (PDF) by Apple Service Source (mirrored)
*LaserWriter 630 Pro at Applefritter
*LaserWriter Pro 600/630 at the North East Florida Educational Consortium
*Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 at Open Printing
*LaserWriter Pro 630 at Retro Adventures (2018-05-26)
Category:1993 introductions