What's the difference between a thermal transfer printer and an ordinary printer?

Thermal transfer: print the thermal transfer pattern on thermal transfer paper with a page printer, and then imprint it with a bronzing machine.

Thermal sublimation: the thermal transfer printing ink is printed on thermal sublimation paper by sublimation with thermal dyes, and then imprinted by hot stamping machine.

The ordinary printer used in the thermal transfer industry is a thermal transfer printer, as simple as that.

However, their effects are different. The printing effect is not only affected by the picture pixels, but also depends on the resolution of the printer. The quality of the printer is not good, and it is useless to use a clearer image. If you want to make your products richer in color and higher in quality, I recommend you to choose OKI C7 1 1W or C94 1dn, both of which have the function of printing on white background, with super high resolution and good performance.

At present, there are two main working principles of thermal transfer printers on the market: piezoelectric printing and thermal foaming. Epson printer uses piezoelectric printing. Piezoelectric printer will not change the chemical properties of thermal transfer ink, because it only changes the mechanical pressure. It changes the current of the tiny piezoelectric ceramic chip of the print head through computer control, and produces different pressures to make the ink jet from the nozzle, forming images with different depths. Suitable for thermal transfer printing. Epson R2 10/230/270/290/Me series is the most suitable printer for personal thermal transfer.