Teac P-55B manual Thermal Printing or Inkjet PRINTING?

THERMAL PRINTING OR INKJET PRINTING?

The REAL Facts.

Is it really true that inkjet printing is actually cheaper than thermal printing? Why would you want to even consider to offer thermal printing to your customers as an alternative or complement to inkjet printing? The following summari- zes the key facts you need to know and the advantages that thermal printing offers:

IMAGE QUALITY

Photo-realistic images are only achievable with thermal printing. They are even sharper than replicated prints.

QUANTITY/QUALITY CONSISTENCY

You have experienced inconsistent print-quality with inkjet printing. Print qua- lity will look different based on how much ink remains in any of the cartrid- ges. With thermal printing, each ribbon contains enough pigment to print 500 discs. Each print is identical.

DRY TIME

Inkjet-printed media could take a few minutes to dry. But inks stay wet around the outside edge and on the inner hub due to surface finish characte- ristics of all discs. This leads to ink “smearing and smudging” caused by handling of un-dried discs. Thermal prints are never wet to have to dry! Thermal technology eliminates dry time.

INDELIBILITY

Inkjet prints will easily scratch, fade, run and smudge. This will never happen with thermal prints.

COST/SAVINGS

It is difficult to forecast inkjet print-output since ink output could vary from job to job. You might save initially on the cost of the printer, but incure more future costs with inefficient inkjet cartidge replacement and related job ‘re- runs”. With thermal printing you can get 500 prints per ribbon. GUARAN- TEED.

COLOR SHIFT

Color shifting occurs when one of the three colors in a cartridge runs out. This causes overall color accuracy to ‘shift’ in the middle of a run. With ther- mal printing, there is absolutely no color shifting. The sensor system of the Image Pro printer recognizes when ribbon capacity is at its end.

BANDING

Inkjet Printing can create visible horizontal lines (‘bands’) across the disc as ink runs out. Banding happens generally with larger jobs that are set up to run unattended. What is your REAL cost-per-print when you have to throw out 20 bad discs repeatedly? With thermal printing, 500 identical discs-per- ribbon is ASSURED, so you can truly use the printer unattended.

EDGE-TO-EDGE PRINTING

Inkjet printer can not print to the edge of the disc. Due to non-printable cha- racteristic of the edges of an inkjet disc, over-run ink never dries and smears when touched. Thermal printing prints edge-to-edge.

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INKJET PRINTING	DYE-SUBLIMATION
	PRINTING
Average Quality Depending on	Highest Print Quality in the
Media Quality	Industry
Inconsistent	Consistent

Varies / can get very Messy Instantly with no Mess

Will Scratch, Fade, Run or Smudge	Won’t Scratch, Fade, Run or
and is NOT water-proof	Smudge and is Water-proof
Variable – Not so easy to Forecast	Fixed Costs

Color Shifting will occure	No Color Shifts
Risk of Scrap	No Scrap

Varies / can get very messy No Banding

Cannot Print Edge-to-Edge Will Print Edge-to-Edge