LaserWriter Pro 810

The LaserWriter Pro 810 was a large format monochrome laser printer from the LaserWriter series that was released by Apple Computer for the professional workgroup market in October 19, 1993.High-Performance Apple Printers Target Large and Small Workgroups Aggressive Pricing and Fax Option Set New Standards by Apple Computer. 1993-10-21. Silicon Times Report no.9-44. 1993-10-29. A lower-end LaserWriter Pro 800 had been planned, but was never released.Apple prepares trio of new LaserWriter printers for Mac and Windows, which will offer facsimile option by Computer Business Review, Tech Monitor. 1993-08-06.New high-res LaserWriters to offer fast Level 2 output by Matthew Rothenberg, MacWEEK p.96. 1993-05-31.
==Description==
The Pro 810 could print at a resolution of 800-dpi from a XP-20 print engine that could output 20 pages-per-minute with a rated life of 600,000 pages. It is compatible with LZR 2080 toner cartridges. Three adjustable trays can each support up to 250 sheets of 11 x 17-inch paper.LaserWriter Pro 810, Low End Mac. 1993-10-01.
The 7.25 MHz 8200 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. It also supports faster EtherTalk or (SNMP) networking over an internal Ethernet card ( or ). Support for Windows NT requires the network adapter card to have PrintServer ROM 1.2 or later.Q146103: Unable To Print To Apple LaserWriter Pro 810 on Network by Microsoft, KnowledgeBase Archive, GitHub. 2001-08-08. An optional fax card can allow it to send, receive and print es.
===Included fonts===
*ITC Avant Garde**
*ITC Bookman**
*Courier
*Delphian*
*ITC Garamond Narrow*
*Helvetica
*Helvetica Black*
*Helvetica Compressed*
*Helvetica Narrow**
*ITC Lubalin Graph*
*Lucida Bright*
*ITC Machine*
*Nadianne*
*New Century Schoolbook**
*Old English Text*
*Onyx*
*Oxford*
*Palatino
*Swing Bold*
*Symbol
*Times
*ITC Zapf Chancery**
*ITC Zapf Dingbats**
*Zeal*
:* In TrueType format only.
:** In TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats.
==Discontinuation==
The Pro 810 was discontinued in November 1994 and superseded by the LaserWriter 8500.
===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 810: Technical Specifications at Apple
**LaserWriter Pro 810 (PDF) Service Technical Documentation (mirrored)
*LaserWriter Pro 810 at Applematters
*LaserWriter Pro 810 at madeApple
===Articles===
*Apple's Network LaserWriter at PC Magazine, p.44 (1994-01-25)
*Apple Targets Workgroups With Two New LaserWriters at PC Magazine, p.60 (1993-11-23)
Category:1993 introductions