What is a thermal label printer?
To understand the?thermal label printer?better, let's get a short brief of the thermal printing principle: a thermal label printer uses a heated thermal printhead pressed against a medium to produce b......
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What are advantages and disadvantages of thermal printer?
Thermal use of chemically treated paper that becomes black when heated. The thermal transfer printer uses a heat-sensitive ribbon, in which the print head melts onto the paper. So here this article gi......
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The difference between direct thermal and thermal transfer printing
We place before the user, the information that you need to know, for perfect label quality and printing. This piece of article helps you all, to know most of the key aspects about direct thermal and t......
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What is a thermal printer and how does it work?
Thermal printers have revolutionized the printing landscape with their efficiency, economy, and speed. They are particularly popular in the eCommerce industry for printing shipping labels, but their u......
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Maintenance of thermal printheads
Most labelprinters do have the possibility to open the printhead easily. Move away the labelmaterial and the thermal transferribbon and clean the printhead with the recommanded cleaning material. Don'......
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How to protect your thermal transfer printhead?
Thermal Transfer Printing is a method where heat is used to transfer ink from a ribbon onto a substrate. For example, for the printing of barcodes and other variable data like lot numbers, serial numb......
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Thermal printhead and platen roller problems
Thermal printhead and platen roller problems are the most common culprits with imaging concerns. Thermal Printers: Printhead Problems and Solutions There are three reasons why you are experiencing poo......
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Technical terms of thermal print head
Dot Density The density of heater elements. It is shown either by [dot/mm] which means the number of heater elements in 1mm, or by [dot/inch = dpi] which means the number of heater elements in 1inch. ......
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Precautions of thermal print head
Electrical Precautions 1. Circuits should be designed to shut down VH (heater voltage) to GND level during stand-by mode in order to avoid damage to the printhead by ion, noise, etc. 2. Exceeding the ......
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DPI explained
In this article you'll learn what 'DPI' and 'resolution' means when we talk about a thermal label printer. When you're looking at the specifications for a printer or when someone mentions DPI, you'll ......
