Thermal Printer
May 31st, 2009
Thermal Printers - Perfect Receipt Printers for Your Business
thermal printers
A thermal printer is economical because it produces image or documents by selectively heating coated thermal paper.
Anatomy of a thermal printer, Thermal head - which generates heat and prints onto the paper
Why use a thermal printer? Thermal printers are generally faster and quieter than regular dot matrix printers.
Which type of thermal printer should I buy? There are three kinds of thermal printers: Direct thermal printer - this type of thermal printer creates images by burning dots on coated paper. Thermal wax transfer printer - the thermal wax transfer printer works by pressing a wax-coated ribbon onto the paper and using heat to transfer the image. This type of thermal printer comes in colored types.
