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Thermal printers

Thermal printers

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Thermal printers

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- Thermal printers are the unsung heroes of the printing world. Anybody who's ever got a sales receipt from a point of sale system has probably enjoyed the benefits of a thermal printer. Thermal printers work through a very simple mechanism. What we have is paper that is thermally sensitive. Wherever you hit it with heat, it changes colors. That's all there is to it. So a thermal printer is really only going to have two parts to it. It's going to have some kind of feed mechanism that keeps the paper moving up, and then it's going to have a heating element, which can actually, it's got zillions of little spots on it, and it will put little spots of heat onto the paper and the paper turns black or blue, and there you go. Thermal printers have a few benefits. One of the things that we could run into with those is, number one, a lot of times, you'll see multi-part forms. What you're looking at is usually like a white sheet, a yellow sheet, and they're both thermally sensitive. So that can…

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