Introduction to heat transfer printing machine

Printers can be categorized into many types, but most people know printers that are usually pin-punched, ink-jet and laser-printed, but you may not notice that in our living environment, almost all commodities have labels printed using heat transfer technology, for example, for example. Open the mobile phone shell, you can see the dense label with barcode inside. Generally, the wheat heads of high-grade packaging boxes have a sticker with a product label printed by heat transfer, usually with barcode. In addition, when purchasing clothing, hanging tags on clothing are printed by thermal transfer printing. Especially behind electrical products, there are some labels printed by thermal transfer technology. Like notebook computers, there are more than one label printed in this way.

Why do we need to use thermal transfer printing, and how to produce heat transfer printing?

Because there are many labels, it must be able to withstand the test of time, long-term immutability, text must be long-term preservation, and can not fade, can not be attrition because of contact with solvents, can not be deformation and discoloration because of high temperature, so it is necessary to use a special material of printing media and printing materials. To ensure these characteristics, the general inkjet printing technology can not achieve, laser printing can not achieve, and the effect of needle punching and the original design can not meet the requirements, so there is the emergence of thermal transfer technology.

Thermal transfer technology, simply speaking, is to use special carbon tape, through the working principle of the printing head similar to the fax machine, to heat the carbon powder coating on the carbon tape and transfer it to paper or other kinds of materials, because the coating material on the carbon tape can be selected according to the need to produce strong adhesion. With the choice of printing medium, it is better to ensure that the printed handwriting is not affected by the outside world. And this heating process, how to heat, can be controlled by the computer. At present, because a variety of software has been developed specifically for printing labels, it can be said that it is very convenient for users, especially for general labels to produce barcodes, so the generation of barcode symbols has become this. Necessary tools for class software.

Generally, printer designs are usually designed for A4 paper size. Some people have to place special orders for printing labels on such paper, which is very uneconomical. For factories, sometimes they have to print thousands of sheets in an hour. These are available on the market. Printers are impossible to complete, so the design of a printer for small paper, which can print continuously and quickly emerged as the times require. The special label printer is not only like this, but also for the needs of factories. It can operate independently with a scanning gun or keyboard. It does not necessarily need a personal computer to operate. Just like the photo printer now, it can read data directly without relying on computers, thus saving the extra investment of factories.