Indulge Yourself Into The World Of Inkless Printing

You might haven’t realized yet, but you are offered with thermal printed products almost every single day. It all depends on how frequently you are visiting shopping centres, of course.

Indeed, thermal printing is one of the most popular printing techniques used by retailers to provide you with cash or card receipts. Do you know? Inkless printing method has been around us from decades in various forms. Since the day it has been introduced in the market, its widely in use, which is why we are going to let you know the mechanics involved in direct thermal printing and how it gained its popularity.

How thermal printing works?

Since there are two types of thermal printing but neither of them using the application of ink. The method, called thermal transfer printing, involves the use of a heat-sensitive ribbon to create texts or graphics on paper. On the other hand, the second method is known as direct thermal printing, where it involves the application of heat from a thermal print head to a substrate that has been coated with a solidified chemical mixture of a colorless dye and a matrix.

Mechanism of thermal receipt printer involves the coated paper that is loaded as a roll and fed through a slot that passes it between a rubber roller and the thermal head. The print head presented in the receipt printed contains many dots which quickly heats specified areas of the paper as it passes over, using those dot formations to produce letters and graphics. Then a chemical reaction occurs with the paper’s coating between an acid and the dye as the matrix reaches a temperature that is above melting point to produce a black color.

You can achieve these readable texts and graphics by purchasing Citizen CTS-801 Thermal POS Printer Series and Citizen CTS-851 Thermal POS Printer Series.