Acer 300P What type of printing material is used?, Can I print on both sides of the paper?

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3.What type of printing material is used?

In contrast to traditional types of liquid ink, ink cartridges, crayon ink and dry toner, dye-sublimation printers utilize ink ribbons which look like rolls of colored cellophane. Each roll contains panels of cyan, magenta and yellow and the printer works like a four-color printing press (CMYK). Black is derived as a subtractive color and therefore a separate black panel is unnecessary. The beauty of using ribbon is that they are incredibly neat and clean.

4.Can I print on both sides of the paper?

No. The ribbon should be printed on the coated side of the photo paper. There might be some problems, like paper jam, occurs for printing on wrong side.

5.What kind of paper should I use?

To get the best image out of dye sublimation, you should use special paper designed for FotoPrisa Printer. FotoPrisa Printer offers various options for your application: coated photo paper, 4x4-sticker paper, single sticker paper and postcard. All options would offer true photo quality printouts.

6.Why does the paper go in and out of the printer while printing?

The way FotoPrisa Printer print images is quite different from the popular inkjet printers. FotoPrisa Printer prints images on the paper by selectively heating the ribbon in the cartridge and it takes three different ribbon-heating procedures (Cyan, Magenta and Yellow) to complete printing the image. Therefore when FotoPrisa Printer completes printing image in one color, it will first eject the paper and then retrieve the paper back for the next ribbon heating procedure. This is why you see the paper going in and out of the printer when printing.

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