In 1991 I purchased a PLW 300 with my Mac IIsi. I don't recall the exact price, but IIRC it was around $700. It had a Canon print engine.

But they did release a number of Postscript-language Personal LaserWriter models — the PLW 4/600, for example.

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Well, forgive my ignorance then. If that was the case, why wasn't the 300-series Postscript? Was Apple really that desperate for printer market-share?

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- Postscript had to be licensed from Adobe. More $$$

- Instead of using the computer CPU to process the print page, Postscript printers had their own processing. More $$$

In the early 90s, even the cheapest Postscript laser printers started around $2000. That wasn't an option for some of us.