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

Thermal Transfer: a printer that transfers ink (foil / ribbon) onto paper. A thermal printhead melts wax-based ink from the transfer ribbon onto the paper. When cool, the wax is permanent. This type of thermal 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 page for each page to be printed, these printers print images as dots, which means that images must be dithered first. As a result, images are not quite photo-realistic, although they are very good.

Direct thermal: a printer that prints the image by burning dots onto coated paper when the paper passes over a line of heating elements. Early fax machines used direct thermal printing.

Thermal printing is very used, for pre-printed labels, barcodes, expiry dates, address labels, numbering labels, data base lists and many others.

Foilplus has in-house thermal printing for quick deliveries, over printing, satin labels and others for further details please do not hesitate to contact us.