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Toshiba TEC's barcode printers are specifically designed to produce high quality accurate barcode
labels and tickets, as required to maximize efficiency in today's highly automated society. Whether
you require portable printers, low output budget printers, medium output desktop-sized units, or high
output industrial strength machines, Toshiba TEC's extensive product range will provide the ideal
solution to your printing needs.
Our range of thermal printers work at optimal processing and printing speeds while ensuring the highest
degree of reliability for business-critical applications. They are trusted worldwide to provide performance
printing solutions combined with a low cost of ownership.
Thermal Barcode Printers
Thermal Printers are heavy-duty electronic machines that have the dedicated ability to print barcodes,
text, or graphics on labels and tags. You might see them referred to as Thermal Printers, barcode label
printers, thermal label printers, label printers, tag printers, or just barcode printers.
Barcode printers have the ability to print barcodes on labels with text and graphics at a very fast rate. That
is mainly due to the printer’s ability to calculate the barcode, text, and graphic images internally. This allows
the computer to send very little data to the printer in order to print very complex labels. Each label can be the
same or entirely different during a print cycle. You can print one label at a time or thousands. They apply
necessary data to each label by way of heat.
There are two basic methods of using this thermal method of printing; they are Thermal Transfer, and Direct
Thermal. Thermal Transfer uses a ribbon that is already coated with a special wax/resin ink that is literally
“ironed” to the surface of the material you are printing on. Direct Thermal uses a method where a special paper
(called direct thermal paper) reacts to concentrated heat from the printer in a small area.
These features make barcode label printers far superior to other type of printers to print variable data on labels
or tags.
The most popular resolution of barcode printers is 203 dots per inch. Most people just round to 200 dpi. But, you
can also find 300, 400, and 600 dpi print heads. Be careful, a higher resolution does not necessarily mean better.
Barcode printers are usually separated into three categories. These categories are industrial, desktop, and portable
barcode printers.
RoHS-compliant
RoHS-compliant parts include none of the following hazardous substances, such as Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd),
Mercury (Hg), Hexavalent Chromium (Cr (VI)), Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBB), and Polybrominated Diphenyl
Ethers (PBDE).
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