This printer could print at forty characters per second. Apple followed this release with a Qume daisy wheel engine, the Apple Letter Quality Printer (also known as the Apple Daisy Wheel Printer), in January 1983. Itoh and sold under Apple label in 1982 for the Apple II series, Lisa, and the Apple III. The Apple Dot Matrix Printer (often shortened to Apple DMP) is a printer manufactured by C. Also compatible with the Apple III, the Silentype was a rebranded Trendcom 200.
The Silentype was a thermal printer, which used a special paper and provided 80 column output. Apple's first printer was the Apple Silentype, released in June 1979, shortly after the Apple II Plus.