Thermal wax is another specialist technology - very similar to dye-sublimation - well-suited to printing on transparencies. They use CMY or CMYK rolls containing page-sized panels of plastic film coated with wax-based colourants. Thousands … [Read more...]
Thermo AutoChrome Printers
The thermo autochrome (TA) print process, which is considerably more complex than either inkjet or laser technology, has emerged recently in printers marketed as companion devices for use with a digital camera. TA paper contains three layers of … [Read more...]
Dye Sublimation Printers
For many years dye-sublimation printers were specialist devices widely used in demanding graphic arts and photographic applications. The advent of digital photography led to the technology entering the mainstream, forming the basis of many … [Read more...]
Solid Ink Printers
Marketed almost exclusively by Tektronix, solid ink printers are page printers that use solid wax ink sticks in a phase-change process. They work by liquefying wax ink sticks into reservoirs, and then squirting the ink onto a transfer drum, … [Read more...]
Dot-Matrix Printers
Dot matrix was the dominant print technology in the home computing market in the days before the inkjet. Dot matrix printers produce characters and illustrations by striking pins against an ink ribbon to print closely spaced dots in the appropriate … [Read more...]