Here’s a look back at some of the printers Apple produced over the years. Apple Silentype (1980) Apple designed the Silentype printer, which used special heat-sensitive paper, to work with the ...

1979: Apple Inc. now employs 250 people. It introduces Silentype, the first printer, and also releases Apple II+. December 1979: Several Apple employees, including Jobs and Jef Raskin, were ...

Apple’s printer business started four years before the original Macintosh made its debut in 1984. That first printer — the Silentype — brought 80-column thermal printer to the Apple II and Apple III.