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Thermal Printers

A type of printer that uses heat to transfer an impression onto paper. There are two kinds of thermal printers:

Intermec Thermal Printers

 

  1. Thermal transfer

    Thermal Transfer Printing diagram

    It uses a printhead to melt the wax-base ink from the transfer ribbon onto paper. Once cool, the wax is permanent. This type of printer uses an equivalent panel of ink for each page to be printed, no matter if a full page or only one line of print is transferred. Monochrome printers have a black panel for each page to be printed. Color printers have either 3 (CMY) or 4 (CMYK) colored panels for each page.

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  2. Direct themal

    Prints the image by burning dots onto coated paper when the paper passes over a line of heating elements. With this kind of thermal printer, the paper already has the ink in it. There's no need to use the wax-base ink ribbon.

 

References:

  • Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB
  • Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/USB.html
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