Label Printer
Label printers are a highly effective computer peripheral which typically print on self-adhesive labels you can peel and stick right from your machine. Sometimes, though, you make use your label printer to print up on card-stock. With the rise in popularity of at home, one stop entertainment centers and the recording and burning of CD and DVD’s at home, as gifts or for your own personal collection. Now you no longer need to fumble around with your CD’s; leaving them blank, or write on them with smudge able, sometimes unreadable marker, but you can print a neat, cool looking label with your own decidedly individual look to them.

Usage of label printers happens typically in two formats: Direct Thermal label Printers (DTP) or Thermal Transfer Printers (TTP). The difference has to do with the way the label is printed. DTP use heat sensitive chemicals and thermal print head. TTP use ink ribbon and labels end up with a matte finish. While each method is effective, each ribbon type differs in cost, durability, cost, and finished product.

Label printers typically operate on one of three volumes; desktop, commercial, or industrial. Desktop and commercial may just be a matter of degree, with a slight upgrade from your home printer model to the mid volume “commercial” model. Desktop label printers are designed for light duty usage and can hold stock up to 4” wide. Commercial label printers typically hold larger paper stock (8”) but are not much different from anything you may have at home in any other way. Industrial label printers however are dedicated to heavy duty, continuous operation in warehouses, factories, and more industrial work centers.

Historically, label printer typically printed monochromatic. What did you need color for? Labels were intended for transfer of information and served little other purpose. However, with the rise of the do it yourself at home’ ness brought to popularity with these all in one smart printers at home, that color label printers really took shape. Now consumers wanted to do what they wanted with their label and they demanded options. Label printers responded with a plethora of options for all moods.

Starting with your basic CD label printer, you could go up the ladder and do whatever you wanted; from printing basic, black and white labels for your recipe book to high quality label printers you could use for your presentation to barcode label printers to serve with alarms as theft deterrents in your retail establishment to even digi label printers to help keep all your information in order; there was calling, producers heard and answered it; now consumers have the ultimate choice and they can do basically whatever they want.

Labels have always been an important mechanism for cataloguing, storing, retrieving, and re-storing information. Label makers from our digital printers have made this activity a whole lot easier for everyone.