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Citizen CLP7202
Most popular thermal transfer printers can produce labels up to about 4" wide (more
expensive models can print at 6" or even 8") and lengths up to 8 inches plus. Smaller
widths can of course be accommodated. Citizen, Sato, Zebra, and Datamax
manufacture popular thermal transfer printers; these are the major brands.
You can get almost any type of label stock imaginable for thermal transfer
printers; high temperature, weather proof, surface laminated, jewelry ring stock,
card stock, tag stock, etc.
The basic paper labels with inexpensive ribbons produce bar codes that can be
smeared or smudged with hard rubbing by the fingers. Smudge proof labels can be
produced with more expensive synthetic label stock and a ribbon with less wax
and more resin (hybrid or P2 Ribbon). Scratch- proof laminated labels can be
produced with XT Polyester and a high resin ribbon; when heated, the resin and
polyester coating fuse to make a very durable label. Worth Data has a variety of
paper, synthetic and polyester labels stocks and ribbons to choose from.
These printers generally print from 2" to 12" per second at any width up to the
maximum. Find out if the rated speed quoted for the printer you are considering
is to be expected when printing bar codes or graphics -- for this, many printers
slow down to less than 1/2 their quoted speed.
The print heads wear out on thermal or thermal transfer printers. To maximize
the print head life, clean it between every ribbon change with a cleaning card or
with a lint-free q-tip soaked in alcohol --a MUST to avoid continually replacing
printheads.
Unlike most dot matrix and laser printers, the thermal transfer printers discussed
have scalable text fonts and bar code fonts resident in the printer’s firmware.
The software necessary to print the bar codes is a series of special command
sequences, allowing you to add thermal transfer printing to one of your existing
programs providing there is someone semi-skilled at programming.
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