Apple Thermal Transfer printer

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed Jul 4 14:33:12 2001

Some thermals use the heat of the printhead to blacken the thermal paper,
others use the heat of the head to melt off the coating on a plastic ribbon
(like the old Commodore color printers) - some can do either, such as Zebra,
DataMax, etc. The serial printers that UPS accounts use to make shipping
labels have thermal labels. The Zebra/Datamax types that I've worked and
used work well with either a ribbon or thermal labels, mostly for barcodes.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Edwin P. Groot
-> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:15 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: Apple Thermal Transfer printer
->
->
-> Good rescue! Why would a thermal printer need a ribbon? All the
-> printers for my HP stuff just need thermal paper rolls.
-> Edwin
->
-> At 05:40 PM 6/30/2001 -0400, you wrote:
-> > I walked out my door this afternoon to find an Apple Thermal
-> >Transfer printer sitting next to the garbage can outside of our
-> ....
-> >serial cable attacbed to it. It's missing whatever head/ribbon would
-> >be installed and I rescued it just minutes before a thunderstorm
-> >moved through. If anyone is interested in it, you're welcome to it
-> >
-> > Jeff
->
Received on Wed Jul 04 2001 - 14:33:12 BST