Why are thermal printers so popular?
Thermal printers have the following very attractive features:
• Very high reliability
• Small compact printing units
• Easy handling in applications
• High functionality even under extreme environmental conditions
• Low maintenance costs
• Low noise levels
• Fast print speeds
• Few moving parts and no additional consumables (e.g. toner, ribbons or inks as required by other printers)
We supply thermal paper rolls for point of sale printers. Thermal papers carry a reactive functional coating. On the printing side the paper contains colour generators and colour developers as the most important functional constituents. Under the influence of heat a physical fusion process takes place in this functional coating, as a result of which print develops.
Diagrams by Koehler Spezialpapiere and Kanzan Spezialpapiere