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Topic: Label Maker Question
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-13-2004 11:16 AM
With the label maker having a ribbon does that mean its actually a thermal resin based product?
I would be somewhat surprised if that's the case, particularly since a number of full size thermal resin printers sold on the market for years are all pretty expensive.
The Fargo printer was one of the first popular thermal resin printers, and it carried a price tag of $5000, all just for printing stuff on normal 8½" X 11" sheets. Summa Technology, Roland and Gerber all sell thermal resin based printers for large format output. The Gerber EDGE is the most popular. It uses a four color foil set and you can use other foils in addition to the CMYK set for Pantone spot color matches or even metallic ink effects. The EDGE carries a $20,000 price tag though. Ouch. Well, in big printing circles prices often know no bounds. Electrostatic-based 3M Scotchprint graphic makers can hit the $250,000 mark. Grand format billboard printers start around the $500,000 level.
Kinda nifty if a little Dymo label maker can incorporate some of that method in a low cost consumer product.
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