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 600dpi 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 (300dpi) 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The Pro 630 was discontinued in September 1994 and superseded by the LaserWriter 16/600 PS.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, bit this requires configuring an  address over EtherTalk by a Mac running Apple Printer Utility in classic Mac OS or the Classic environment.