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Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS Basics & Theory 1–6
Specifications
Marking
Engine
Canon HX LBP print engine
• 3 ppm in color; 12 ppm in black, cyan, magenta, or yellow; 1 ppm
for transparencies
• 600x600 dpi with Color PhotoGrade
• Enhanced 600 dpi grayscale imaging (effective 200-line screen half-
tone, 122 gray levels)
Laser
Semiconductor laser GaAlAs
• Wavelength: 780 nm
• Output power: 1 mW
Controller
The specifications for the I/O controller board are as follows:
• AMD Am29030 30-MHz microprocessor
• 8 MB of ROM (including 39 Type 1 fonts)
• 12 MB of RAM (16 MB on CLW 12/660); 8 MB soldered + 4 MB
(or 8 MB) SIMM
(expandable to 40 MB total)
• 128 K parameter SRAM
• SCSI interface for internal/external hard disk(s)
• LocalTalk interface
• High-speed parallel interface (IEEE P1284 ECP, bidirectional)
• Ethernet interface with three protocols: EtherTalk, Novell NetWare
IPX (PSERVER or RPRINTER), and TCP/IP (BSD lpd)
• External Ethernet transceivers available for thin coaxial, twisted pair
(10Base-T), and thick coaxial (IEEE 802.3 AUI)
• Two-position communication configuration switch
• All ports/protocols simultaneously active
• Color-rendering acceleration
• Data compression/decompression system
• Adobe PostScript Level 2 (version 2014)
True 600 dpi
The Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS is a true 600 dpi printer because
every aspect of its architecture is designed to a 600 dpi specification. In
addition, its 8-bit per pixel capability can assign levels of color or gray
to each pixel, thereby further enhancing print quality.
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