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Industrial barcode printer

What is an industrial barcode printer?

An industrial barcode printer is a device designed to print barcodes on labels or products.

Barcode printers usually come in the form of desktop label printers. They have interfaces through which specific information can be supplied, such as batch numbers for a production run or other details from a database.

Types of industrial barcode printers

Many industrial barcode printers are direct thermal printers, although most of them are thermal transfer printers. Thermal transfer printers, as the name says, use thermal transfer printing, a printing method where ink ribbons are melted to print a barcode on a label.

Industrial barcode printers are also available as drop-on-demand inkjet printers, which are Windows-based, use the exact amount of ink as necessary and provide a high-speed and quality printing. Drop-on-demand inkjet printers, on its turn, come in two types:

  • Thermal inkjet barcode printers, which use cartouches containing miniature, electrically heated chambers. The printer sends a rapid pulse through the thermal chamber creating a vapor bubble that presses the ink drop through the nozzle. Ink that is not used is immediately pulled back by the surface tension of the ink bubble and the contraction of the vapor bubble. A resourceful method, the time needed for this scientific process is less than 100 millionth of a second.
  • Piezoelectric inkjet barcode printers, which are commonly used to print on different product surfaces. Electric tension is sent through the walls of the ink chambers so they expand. This causes a pressure drop and more ink is drawn into the chamber. When the electric tension stops, the walls return to their original position and the ink drop is ejected with high pressure.

Industrial barcode printers vs standard computer printers

Industrial barcode printers often have features that standard computer printers do not support. For example, industrial barcode printers have automatic numerators that will ensure that a predefined higher or lower number in the required sequence is printed on each label.

Industrial barcode printers also have a date offset option that is of particular use to the packaging industry. This automatically moves the date forward from the current date by a specified number of days during printing so that the best before date can be automatically printed.

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