Learning about various models of printers is not only interested if you are generally curious about technology, but also extremely useful if you need to get a printer for yourself. This time, we would like to present you thermal printers.
Technology behind thermal printers
Thermal printers use a sort of printhead that uses heat to produce high-quality images on special paper or plain paper. Generally, you will come across two kinds of thermal printers in practice. The first one is a direct thermal printer and the second one is a thermal wax transfer printer. With the direct thermal printer, you will have a heating element that burns the dot onto the surface of the specially designed heat-sensitive paper known as thermal paper.
By any chance you are familiar with the old school fax machines, you already know a thermal printer. Thermal printers are widely used in retail businesses to print out receipts. It is done so by using a large roll of thermal paper stocked on a feed assembly. Feed assembly automatically draws the paper past the heating elements. Some of the receipt printers are even able to cut the receipt for you.
Thermal printers vs dye-sublimation printers
Thermal printers almost work the same as dye-sublimation printers. The only exception is that, unlike using a dye-sublimation film, thermal printers use a film coated with colored wax. The thermal pinhead is then passed over the ribbon and melts the wax right onto the paper. Thermal wax printers do not require special papers only dye-sublimation printers. Hence, they are quite flexible and cheaper to some degree. While if that sounds good, go for it but the quality won’t be as good as dye-sublimation’s rich quality. Still, this won’t be thus bad. Depends on the usage of the printed product.
Thermal printer example: Rollo Wireless printer X1040
This intuitive-looking printer is the size of 8 x 4 x 4 inches. Has wireless connectivity. Has a resolution of 203 dpi. The print speed is 150mm/s. Max label width goes up to – 4.1 inches. Compatible with operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and Chromebook.
Although it is expensive, has a reputation for being high-speed printing, quite easy to set up, and has shipping discounts. Also, you do not have to worry about all the cable mess, since it is wireless. You can connect it over your regular WiFi but do come in with a USB port in case you need to go wire.
One of the best things about Rollo X1040 is that they offer their cloud-based Roll Ship manager. Roll ship manager can be used to keep track of all the shipping needs across multiple online platforms through your phone or tablet.