By submitting this form, you are agreeing to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
By melting a coating of ribbon so that it sticks to the material being printed on, the material is applied to paper or another medium using the digital printing technique known as thermal transfer printing. In contrast, there is no ribbon used in the process for direct thermal printing.
On heat-sensitive materials or where greater print endurance, particularly against heat, is desired, thermal transfer is favoured over direct thermal printing. The printing of identification labels is a common use for thermal transfer printing.
For printing high-quality barcodes, it is the most popular printing method in the world. The print can be laminated by printers like label makers to increase durability.Wax is melted inside a specialist printer’s print heads to produce thermal-transfer printing.
The three major parts of the thermal-transfer printing process are a stationary print head, a carbon ribbon, and the medium to be printed, which is commonly paper, synthetics, card, or textiles. The ribbon sits in the centre of a sandwich made up of these three elements.
A high-quality printed picture is produced by combining a thermally compliant print head with the electrical characteristics of the ribbon and the right rheological characteristics of the ribbon ink.
On a number of surfaces, thermal transfer printing creates strong, long-lasting pictures using a heated ribbon. Direct thermal printing, which imprints the image directly on the printed medium, does not require a ribbon.
The life of the printed material is shortened by direct thermal media’s increased sensitivity to light, heat, and abrasion. A thermal printhead that heats the surface being marked is used for direct thermal and thermal transfer.
The Global thermal transfer label printer market accounted for $XX Billion in 2021 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2022 to 2030.
A new addition to its mid-tier level XD5 series, BIXOLON America Inc., a leading global provider of mobile, label, and point-of-sale (POS) printers, today announced the release of the new XD5-40t thermal transfer desktop label printer.
Featuring a strong, compact design with an optional LCD, excellent performance for medium-volume printing applications, and great print quality.
In addition to offering quick data processing and print speeds of up to 6 ips to generate high-quality labels with text, images, and 1D/2D barcodes, this new 4-inch thermal transfer desktop label printer has a distinctive appearance that is similar to that of the XD and XT series.
It offers an easy-to-use 1/2-inch and 1-inch core ribbon, an optional mono LCD that is straightforward to set up, a choice of 203, 300 dpi resolutions, along with options for a peeler and an auto cutter.
