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Thermal Printing for the 21st Century
James R. Williams
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2009.25.1.art00096_2  Published Online :  January 2009
Abstract

Portable rental car transactions with receipts, faxed documents, drivers' licenses, and bar code labels on hot steel slabs at 600°C …are all printed with thermal printers. Notwithstanding the predictions of thermal printing's obsolescence for the last 10-15 years, the author explores some of the attributes of this technology which explain its robust nature, and its applicability well into the 21st century.

Journal Title : NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference
Publisher Name : Society of Imaging Science and Technology
Publisher Location : 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA
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James R. Williams, "Thermal Printing for the 21st Century"  in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP25),  2009,  pp 762 - 765,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2009.25.1.art00096_2

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Portable rental car transactions with receipts, faxed documents, drivers' licenses, and bar code labels on hot steel slabs at 600°C …are all printed with thermal printers. Notwithstanding the predictions of thermal printing's obsolescence for the last 10-15 years, the author explores some of the attributes of this technology which explain its robust nature, and its applicability well into the 21st century.