thermal printing

Printing - Other Printing Techniques 1 Thermal printing - Popular in the 1990s for Fax printing. Used today for airline baggage tags and in Supermarket deli counters.

Dye-sublimation printer - Operation 1 During the printing cycle, the printer rollers will move the medium and one of the colored panels together under a thermal printing head, which is usually the same width as the shorter dimension of the print medium. Tiny heating elements on the head change temperature rapidly, laying different amounts of dye depending on the amount of heat applied. After being heated into a gas, the dye diffuses onto the printing medium and solidifies.

Dot matrix printer - Contemporary use 1 Thermal printing is gradually supplanting them in these applications

Optical disc drive - Laser and optics 1 Some drives support Hewlett-Packard's LightScribe photothermal printing technology for labeling specially coated discs.

Thermal printer 1 'Thermal printing' (or 'direct thermal printing') is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by selectively heating coated thermochromic paper, or thermal paper as it is commonly known, when the paper passes over the thermal print head. The coating turns black in the areas where it is heated, producing an image. Two-colour direct thermal printers can print both black and an additional colour (often red) by applying heat at two different temperatures.

Thermal printer - Applications 1 Through the 1990s many fax machines used thermal printing technology. Toward the beginning of the 21st century, however, thermal transfer printer|thermal wax transfer, laser printer|laser, and inkjet printer|inkjet printing technology largely supplanted thermal printing technology in fax machines, allowing printing on plain paper.

Computer printer - Other printers 1 * Barcode printer multiple technologies, including: thermal printing, inkjet printing, and laser printing barcodes

Special fine paper - Digital printing paper 1 The demands of the paper may vary substantially depending on printing method: electrical charge, thermal printing|thermal, magnetic or ink-jet

Thermal paper 1 Patent 5,216,438, Direct color thermal printing method for optically and thermally recording a full-color image on a thermosensitive recording medium, by S

Thermal paper - History 1 In 2006, NCR Corporation's Systemedia division introduced two-sided thermal printing technology, called 2ST

Thermal paper - Health and environmental concerns 1 When taking hold of a receipt consisting of thermal printing paper for five seconds, roughly 1 μg BPA (0.2–0.6 μg) was transferred to the forefinger and the middle finger if the skin was rather dry, and about ten times more than this if these fingers were wet or very greasy

Bag tag - Current bag tags 1 These bag tags are printed using Thermal printing|thermal or barcode printers that print on an adhesive paper stock

Braille embosser 1 Blind users tend to call other Printer (computing)|printers ink printers, to distinguish them from their braille counterparts. This is often the case regardless of the type of printer being discussed (e.g., Thermal printing|thermal printers being called ink printers even though they use no ink).

Cash register - Receipt printer 1 Registers typically use thermal printing|thermal printers to print receipts, although older Dot matrix printing|dot matrix printers are still in use at some retailers

Print media - Other printing techniques 1 *Thermal printing - Popular in the 1990s for Fax printing. Used today for airline baggage tags and in Supermarket deli counters.

Thermographic printing 1 The simplest type is where the paper has been coated with a material that changes colour on heating. This is called thermal printer|thermal printing and was used in older model fax machines and is used in most cash register|shop till receipt printers. This is called direct thermal.

Thermal transfer printing 1 'Thermal transfer printing' is a digital printing process in which material is applied to paper (or some other material) by melting a coating of ribbon so that it stays glued to the material on which the print is applied. It contrasts with direct thermal printing where no ribbon is present in the process. It was invented by SATO corporation around the late 1940s.

Thermal transfer printing - Color thermal printers 1 Thermal printing technology can be used to produce color images by adhering a wax-based ink onto paper

Thermal transfer 1 Thermal transfer is preferred over Thermal printer|direct thermal printing on surfaces that are heat sensitive or when higher durability of printed matter (especially against heat) is desired.

Label printer - Mechanisms 1 *'Thermal Transfer' - Uses heat to transfer ink from ribbon onto the label for a permanent print. Some thermal transfer printers are also capable of direct thermal printing. Using a PVC vinyl can increase the longevity of the label life as seen in pipe markers and industrial safety labels found in much of the market place today.

Security seal - Technologies for marking the seals 1 The seals can be individualized to fit the needs of the user. Typical marking includes logos, special texts, white pads for writing by hand, consecutive numbering and 1D and 2D bar codes. There are several technologies in use, including hot stamping, ink jet printing, laser engraving and thermal printing.

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