Thermal Inkjet Coder

The "Thermal Inkjet" (TIJ) process is a type of inkjet printing, with which a print image is transferred contact-free and precisely to the carrier medium using small drops of ink. With thermal inkjet printers, the ink drops are fired out of the print nozzle by heating them up to 300°C.Inkjet coders can print on virtually any substrate material including paper, plastic, wire, cable, metal, resin, glass, and more. Typical applications for inkjet coding include printing batch codes, barcodes, expiration dates, and lot numbers.There is no ribbon, ink or toner involved with direct thermal printing. Instead, the printhead applies pressure and heat directly onto the surface of heat-sensitive thermal paper. The thermal paper reacts to the heat of the printhead, blackening when heated and producing an image or text.