The thermal technology is not new and is used from 1990 to onwards. The main thing in thermal printers is that it uses heat on ribbon which heats up the colors and those dots of colors are then pasted on the heated areas of paper. Thermal printers are very sensitive and if you pinch your finger onto the papers then you will see darker area on that place where you pinch your finger. The reason is that the heat from your finger transfer to that paper.
Now I give you some advantages of thermal printers:-
- Smaller is size.
- Lighter in weight.
- Less power consumption.
- Easily shift from one place to another.
- Quite during printing and not disturb anyone in your office.
- High speed.
- Very helpful to print on continuous sheets.
Thermal printers are used in hospitals in printing the cardiac activities. When thermal printers first time tested then it not gives good results and the printed paper darkens due to overheat. Now with the advancement of technology thermal printers gives good performance.