Thermal printers have become a popular commodity within the market. It has become increasingly difficult for companies to find a truly versatile thermal printer that can solve unique and specialized printing applications. Thermal printing is a digital process that uses heat to transfer an impression onto paper.
Direct Thermal Printer: A low and less to medium-resolution printer that uses a type of coated paper that darkens the paper when heat is applied to it. The paper when passed by a line of heating elements burn dots onto the paper and thus print image on it.
Thermal wax transfer: A high quality printer, invented by Jack Kilby, utilizes a thermal wax ribbon like object that melts a colored wax onto the paper creating near photo-realistic images. It melts dots of wax-based ink that mixes with almost any kind of stock, from ordinary paper to complex synthetics and films so as to make print on papers
Thermal wax transfer: A high quality printer, invented by Jack Kilby, utilizes a thermal wax ribbon like object that melts a colored wax onto the paper creating near photo-realistic images. It melts dots of wax-based ink that mixes with almost any kind of stock, from ordinary paper to complex synthetics and films so as to make print on papers
Uses of thermal Printers:
- Transport Industry: Various means of transport like motor transport, airplanes, ships and trains use to issue travelling tickets that are printed by thermal printer due to good quality and fast printing at low rates.
- Healthcare Industry: Ultrasound printout are use to be printed by thermal printer as they are very clear, bright, legible and easily readable. Images printed with thermal printer are resistant to water, chemical and oil hands that make them suitable to print electrocardiograms using thermal printer.
- Grocery stores and Supermarkets: Grocery markets and supermarkets make use of barcodes for managing their business product inventory. These barcodes can easily be printed by using barcode label maker program for business inventory and control. Thermal printer creates barcodes and transaction receipts using thermal printers.
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