Defining your needs - Print Technology
Which print technology best meets your requirements?
Thermal technology includes direct thermal and thermal
transfer printers. Many support both direct and transfer operation.
These clean, quiet, versatile printers have become commonplace in
the widest range of applications and environments. Direct thermal
and thermal transfer printers offer a variety of performance, functionality
and features to meet varied needs.
Thermal transfer technology:
- Creates images by using heat to transfer
ink from a ribbon to a label, uses a wide selection of paper and
synthetic label materials with matched ribbons, including colored
ribbons,
- Produces permanent images with
unparalleled staying power for long-term archival applications,
and
- Generates bar codes that are scannable in both infrared and
visible light spectrums.
Direct thermal technology:
- Applies the same basic process but does
not require a ribbon,
- Uses heat-sensitive label materials,
typically paper stocks, � Produces images that are sensitive to
ultra-violet light, heat and many chemicals, and
- Is ideal for short-lived applications, such as food processing,
shipping or clinical laboratory sample tracking.
Typical applications for thermal and direct thermal
printing systems include:
- Internal improvement:
- Capital asset management
- Inventory control
- Labor tracking, time & attendance
reporting
- Work-in-process
- Materials handling
- File tracking
- Component/product marking
- Laboratory sample tracking
Compliance:
- Shipping container/pallet labeling
- Component/product labeling
- Nutritional labeling
- Contents identification
- Regulatory and safety labeling
Reprinted with permission from
Datamax Corporation - 2000
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