If you are looking to significantly improve communications between the prospects and you, the best approach is undoubtedly the print media. Print media has been incredibly helpful for marketing products and services, and businesses can’t ignore the power of such media for printing quality labels at any time. To get superior printing for labels, the Thermal transfer label printer can be your best choice.

About Thermal Transfer Printers

The thermal transfer printer creates signs and labels by melting resin or wax-based ink on paper and several other mediums. The quality of prints in such printers is superior to other types of printers and the prints produced are smear-proof. Further, the thermal transfer printer can print labels that are highly resistant to fading and the printer is well-suited for printing high-quality labels with barcodes.

Working Mechanism

Printhead remains the most important part of a thermal transfer label printer. Heating pins are used in the printhead that is very tiny in size with each pin representing a single pixel. There are different models of thermal printers available having a different density of pins in the printhead.

Resin or wax-based ink is the key material applied to a ribbon and loaded into in thermal transfer printer. The ribbon containing ink stays between the printhead and the printing medium like tape or paper. A microprocessor controls the printhead for determining which heating pin will activate when so that a specific image can be formed.

Further signals are received by selected pins that cause the pins to heat and cool alternatively against the ribbon. Such action causes melting as well as transferring ink from the backing film and further transferring on the label surface. There are a few key benefits of using a thermal transfer printer that is discussed in the following paragraphs.

Benefits of Thermal Label Printers

• Fade-Proof and Durable: Thermal transfer labels, particularly the ribbon and plastic tape combination are more durable and have excellent fade resistance compared to a direct thermal or traditional inkjet printer. While the labels printed with direct thermal printers may darken leading to illegible prints, and there is a bleeding problem with the use of regular ink, there is higher stability with thermal transfer prints. The thermal transfer printer is idle to work in an adverse environment to produce high-quality durable prints.
• Superior Quality of Barcodes: To use the true potential of barcodes that can pay a return for the investment made in money and time, barcodes must be readable. Thermal transfer printers are capable to print clear barcode lines and width that can be easily scanned.
• PC Compatibility and Wide Print Media Choice: Several thermal transfer printers available on the market are compatible with PC that allows importing text and images easily from a computer to the printer. Further, you can print on several types of material for printing in a thermal transfer printer making your job more convenient and easier.

You can leverage the true potential of a thermal transfer printer when you use a Label Applicator that can streamline the process of printing better.