This, as well as guaranteed compatibility with both Apple II and Macintosh computers, made it popular in schools.
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There were three different models introduced over time, which were mostly popular among Apple II and Macintosh owners.
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Basic color images and text were possible using a color ribbon, a feature that was supported by the original version of QuickDraw on the Macintosh (although running on a monochrome platform, actually supported output for eight colors).
Several years after the company demonstrated its Reverse LPRINT command, which allowed a dot-matrix printer to function as a scanner (the demo was actually a videotape run backwards, showing sheets of text feeding into a printer and coming out blank after they’d been “scanned”), Thunderware introduced the Thunderscan scanner, which replaced the ribbon cartridge of an Apple ImageWriter with a scanning module.
The lettering in Silverwolf comics was unusual, in that it was typed on an Apple Macintosh and printed with an Apple ImageWriter printer in the Geneva font.