Dedicated photo printers differ from all purpose printers as they are designed for photos, text or graphics, documents, digital photos instead of next. They are generally compact and can be easily, and some models are equipped with batteries so that you can print without the need for an outlet. Most photo printers, including dye-sublimation (or dye sub) printers, are built around a thermal sublimation of the engine, but there are some that use ink jet technology.
ForFor many years, dye-sublimation printers are specialized equipment used in demanding applications of graphics and photographs. The advent of digital photography has brought the voice of this technology into the mainstream, are the basis for many stand-alone, portable printers, which appeared in the mid-1990s.
The term "color" of the name refers to the solid colors, which were used in the process, instead of ink or toner. "Sublimation" is the scientific term for a processwhere the solids (in this case, colors) are gaseous, but transformed by an intermediate liquid phase.
The dye sublimation printing process used by the true is different from that of inkjet printers. Instead of small spray nozzles on a page than inkjet ink, the dye sublimation printer with a film of plastic.
Three steps (with solid colors in the form of tape or a tape or a roll) layers of cyan, magenta, yellow and black coloringother. The print head on a dye sub printer uses tiny heaters to vaporize the color that permeates the glossy surface of the paper. A clear coat is added to protect the printing of UV light. Although this method is able to achieve excellent results, is far from being economic. Even if a particular image needs no pigment, the band of the area are still consumed. This is why it is common for printers in the document are consistentContains film transfer, which can produce the same number of runs. Addition, the inks are dye-sublimation paper ink may remain on the surface of the paper.
Apply Today, there are a number of inkjet cartridges on the market for the supply of thermal sublimation. The inkjet ink, the ink on the side of a band after another. The print head heats the ink out of shape to control a gas through a heating element that reachesTemperatures up to 500 ° C (above the average of dye-sublimation printer). A significant difference between the results with dye-sublimation technology and issues that do not, because the colors are applied, the card in the gas phase, are specific, with a hard edge like inkjet cartridges. Instead, the edges are softer and easier in another. In addition, the injection of dye in the gas supply on paper the image of colorfast.
Comparing the thermal dye sublimation printers, andInkjet Printers
Although it is difficult to indicate all the possible advantages and disadvantages compared with ink jet printers and in the following list describes the main points that apply to most people feel at Home.
Advantages of the printer using ink jet printers below:
Print · are very accurate with sharp edges
· Current models offer incredible detail that exceeds most dye sublimation printers
· Variety of papers / surfaces are available, includingmatte, glossy, shiny.
Unlocked · on a paper manufacturer
▪ Some ink-jet ink can produce archival prints that are durable
· Most inkjet printers can print on many different surfaces, designed by the ink, including CDs are CD-accepting applicants, envelopes, etc.
· Shell with a much wider range of colors and generally make the images more vivid sublimation
· Easier to get a large format inkjet 11×14 or 13×20 print sizemore
· Jet printer ink is often more convenient dye sub printer
Inkjet Disadvantages:
· Often much slower than printing
Archives · Most inkjet printers produce prints that a bit '(or a lot) faster than the fading color in the prints
· Heads sometimes clog and can be cleaned, or even replacing
Advantages of using sub printer cartridges, inkjet dye:
· Very fast
Relatively low maintenance
Smooth with ·Dot pattern is not visible even under magnification
· Produce excellent shadow detail in dark areas, where some inkjet ink can be "spotted"
Prints · are generally more durable and more waterproof than inkjet prints
· For many viewers, such as printers produce photos that look and feel of real photographs of the sculptures on the fineness and the absence of a visible pattern
Dye-Sub Printer Disadvantages:
· Consumption patterns, often smear highhigh-contrast edges (like a black square on white background) to a certain extent, make tables, charts and line drawings look a little less 'precise'
· Dye-sub prints typically the time or just over one is not a good ink jet printer ink archival and usually are not as "storage"
· Select the type of paper is very limited and for printers to produce excellent photos on glossy paper, most of them fall behind or do not offer the option of matte prints
· Dye-Sub –The printers use a whole page and print a full page of the group value, a range of small photos
Sites, may not generally be recovered through the printer twice to fill more of the page, as in inkjet
· Powder can sometimes inside and do vertical stripes on printouts
· Dye-Sub printing and the cost of paper and toner (group) is often superior to that of ink-jet printing
Some popular models of dye-sublimation printer
Canon SELPHYCP710
Dye-image as a printer for 150×100mm
Samsung SPP-2040 Photo Printer
Dye-sub printing resolution 300×300dpi
Samsung SPP-2020
Digital Photo Printer, snapshots of products 100×150mm
HiTi Photo Printer 641p
Dye-image as a printer for 152×102mm
Sony Picture Station DPP-FP30
A user friendly dye sub photo printers
Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock 6000
Dye sublimation printer for compatible KodakCameras
Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock 6000
Dye sublimation printer for compatible Kodak cameras
Olympus P-10 Digital Photo Printer
Dye sublimation printer that prints from a digital camera Olympus
Polaroid Photo Printer PP46d
A dye-sub photo printers
Olympus P-440
Printers, print the photographs, A4
Sony DPP-EX50
Dye-sublimation photo printer
January 9th, 2010
