“Thermal-transfer printing is a printing method in which an image or text is applied to a label by heating a thermal transfer ribbon as it passes under the printhead. The ink melts from the ribbon and transfers to the label.”

Originally developed in Japan, as a method of printing the complicated Kanji characters. It was then developed further to become a very versatile technology for industrial and retail printing and is used in label printers, in-line coding printers and print and apply systems all over the world.

There are 1,000s of applications for thermal transfer printing as diverse as printing a simple box end label to a car number plate!

Barcodes and QR Datamatrix coding is becoming increasingly important in todays supply chain management. Talk to us about Thermal Transfer, we also supply the printers and ribbons.