Advantage of Thermal and Laser printer for Product Labeling
Thermal and laser printer is printer that commonly uses in various industries to print barcode label for labeling on product that help to manage stock and inventory control. Barcode stores various information of particular product or item including product cost, name, manufacturer name, manufacturing and expiration date etc. Barcode is series of parallel black bars and white space that easily scan by any barcode reader and useful for logging product information in database. Barcode Generator Software that provides advance feature and support various types of printer for printing price label and product labels using advance feature of program.
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Thermal printer
Thermal printer is useful for printing accurate, high-quality images of barcode labels that easily scan using barcode scanner and help to generate bills in shopping malls, retail etc. Barcode is useful for searching product information and logging product detail in data base using barcode reader. The process of printer for printing labels that printer has a printhead containing many small resistive heating pins that on contact, depending on the type of thermal printer, melt wax-based ink onto ordinary paper or burn dots onto special coated paper. Thermal printing is classified as either direct thermal or thermal transfer. The two technologies are suited to different applications.
1. Direct Thermal Printing
Direct thermal printing is designed for copiers and fax machines that utilize chemically coated paper. It has since been transformed into a highly successful technology for barcoding. Direct thermal printhead consists of a long, linear array of tiny resistive heating elements that are arranged perpendicular to the paper flow. Each printhead element locally heats an area directly below it on the chemically coated paper. This produces a chemical reaction that causes a black dot to form in that area. The image is built by rows of dots that are formed as the media passes beneath the active edge of the printhead.
Advantages
Direct thermal printing produces sharp print quality with good readability
These are simple to operate compared to most other print technologies, and don't require ink, toner or ribbon to monitor or replenish
Labels print only in black, unless they are preprinted with special thermo chromatic ink
These printers enable batch or single-label printing as per user requirement
Direct thermal printers help to environmental economy, these printer use recyclable material
Examples: Shipping labels, Library date due labels
2. Thermal Transfer
Thermal transfer printers use the same basic technology as direct thermal printers for printing barcode. But this printer uses a thermal transfer ribbon that contains wax-based ink and ribbons can be different colors, so the user is not limited to black print. A typical thermal transfer ribbon consists of three layers: the base material, the heat melting ink, and the coating on the print side of the base material. This durable, polyester ribbon film coated with dry thermal transfer ink is placed between the thermal printhead and label. The thermal printhead transfers the ink onto the label surface, where it cools and anchors to the media surface.
Advantages:
Thermal transfer delivers high-definition text, graphic, and barcode print quality for maximum readability and scan ability
Thermal transfer printing offers long life image stability.
It is also enables batch or single-label printing.
Long-term maintenance costs are low compared to other printer.
Thermal transfer printers are typically built more durably than dot matrix or laser printers, allowing reliable operation in industrial as well as office applications
Examples: Barcode labels for outdoor use, Self marking labels, Product labels
Laser Printer
Laser printers are using in various industries including corporate, professional, colleges, school and other environments that require print barcode labels, tags and sticker for labeling in large quantities. The laser printer works much like a photocopier; it projects controlled streams of ions onto the surface of a print drum, resulting in a charged image. The charged image then selectively attracts toner particles, transferring the image onto the paper substrate by means of pressure. The pressure from the printhead and drum then fuse the image to the paper, creating the image.
Advantages
Laser printers are good at producing plain-paper documents that require barcodes
Print product barcodes in linear and 2D codes seamlessly on any type of product using barcode generator software
Print barcode for primary packaging like glass, plastic, aluminum and secondary packaging like batch boxes, pouches, carton box etc
Laser printer can print high-quality text and graphics on paper documents and can double as a document printer when not being used to print bar codes
Barcode density and resolution are also quite high on laser printers, resulting in high quality symbols
How to generate and print barcode using Laser and Thermal Printer, Watch this video
