Thermal printers are generally used in places like supermarket ticket printers, POS cashier printing, bank ATM ticket documents, etc. You can print directly by installing thermal paper, without adding ink or carbon ribbon, and the cost is low.
Bar code printers also get printing effect by heating the print head to transfer the carbon tape, and sometimes they can replace thermal printers.
The consumables used in the barcode printer are label ribbons, and the paper can be plain paper or self-adhesive paper. The thermal receipt machine only uses thermal cashier paper and does not need to put other consumables. There is also a small ticket machine, such as Epson's small ticket machine, which needs to put ribbons and cashier paper, and can also print single-layer paper or double-layer paper. But the barcode machine can't be double-layered. What's more, the barcode machine is mainly used to print barcodes, for example, it can type 1 serial number, but the receipt machine doesn't have this function.
thermal receipt printer
has high speed, long service life, high quality and low repair rate, and is suitable for all kinds of software
novel appearance design and simple operation
support for downloading Logo trademark printing
standard GB2312 Chinese character library supports simplified/traditional and multi-international languages
1MB Ethernet interface, which enables faster connection and printing, and avoids the occurrence of bill loss < The biggest difference between bar code printer and ordinary printer is that
the printing of bar code printer is based on heat, and carbon tape is used as printing medium (or thermal paper is directly used). Compared with ordinary printing method, the biggest advantage of this printing method is that it can realize continuous high-speed printing without supervision. What it prints is generally the brand logo, serial number logo, packaging logo, bar code logo, envelope label, clothing tag and so on.
In addition to the printing function of ordinary printers, it also has the following advantages:
Industrial quality, which can be printed 24 hours without the limitation of printing quantity;
it is not limited by printing materials, and it can print self-adhesive labels of PET, coated paper, thermal paper, synthetic materials such as polyester and PVC, and washing label cloth, etc.
The characters and graphics printed by thermal transfer have scratch-proof effect, and the printed products can be waterproof, anti-fouling, anti-corrosion and high-temperature resistant by using special carbon tape printing.
the printing speed is extremely fast, which can reach 1 inches (24 centimeters) per second at the earliest;
continuous serial numbers can be printed and connected to the database for batch printing;
label paper is usually hundreds of meters long, which can reach thousands to tens of thousands of small labels; The label printer adopts continuous printing mode, which is easier to save and organize;
not limited by the working environment;
the maximum length of a single label can be more than 12 cm.