Primera Technology 510212 Introduction, Thank You, A. How Your Press Works, Thermal Transfer

Digital Label Press 3 User’s Manual

Introduction

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Thank You...

...for choosing the Digital Label and Decal Press. This press has been designed to provide you with stunning, custom cut, high-quality color output on durable adhesive-backed paper, vinyl, polyester, and even heat transfer material. It offers many features which allow you to simultaneously print and cut professional- quality labels, decals, signs, photos, and much more - quickly and easily!

A. HOW YOUR PRESS WORKS

This Digital Label and Decal Press utilizes two different, yet closely related printing technologies to achieve its remarkable output - thermal transfer and dye-sublimation.

Thermal Transfer

Thermal transfer is a process which uses a resin-based ribbon roll as a carrier for transferring color to the print media (see Section 4 for more information on these ribbons and the appropriate print media for each). Such ribbons are available in single spot colors or in a paneled form which includes each of the yellow, magenta, and cyan process colors on the same ribbon roll. By providing each of the process colors, paneled ribbons allow you to conveniently produce full-color images automatically, from a single ribbon.

As the ribbon and print media pass simultaneously beneath the press's print head, thousands of thermal elements within the print head melt the colored inks, thus transferring thousands of tiny colored dots from the ribbon onto the print media. If using a paneled ribbon, the print media automatically makes a separate pass for each colored panel on the ribbon. By combining different colored dots from each ribbon panel in different combinations (this process is called "dithering"), the press is able to print up to 16.7 million colors.

Section 1: Introduction

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