The Silentype was a thermal printer, which used a special paper and provided 80 column output.
[1] The LaserWriter was a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter introduced by Apple in 1985.
[13][14] The StyleWriter was the first of Apple's line of inkjet serial printers, targeted mainly towards consumers.
They produced print quality that was better than the dot matrix ImageWriters, and were cheaper than the LaserWriters.
The model was discontinued in 1994 when Apple introduced the Color StyleWriter series of printers.