Classification of Micro printer

There are four major types of micro-printers: wearable, one hand-held, car-mounted and trolley-mounted.

Wearable

The user can wear the printer with a belt clip or shoulder strap. With the printer in place of the other carrying options, users can free up their hands to perform other tasks and reduce fatigue, especially if the printer is heavily used or carried all day. Using the belt clip or shoulder strap, the user can comfortably carry larger and heavier printers, which is useful when additional media capacity or a wider label is required. Printer Mechanisms

Handheld

Handheld printer is a portable computer with a combination of devices. The printer may be made as a detachable component stuck on the terminal unit, or incorporated as an integral unit. The combination of printer and handheld design eliminates the need for cable connections and the wireless connection between the printer and the computer. Users should test all-in-one models to ensure they are durable enough to remain in use after a fall and that their ergonomic design allows for comfortable one-handed use.

Car mounted

Mobile printers can be installed on most vehicles, including forklifts and freight trucks. Installation can be permanent, for in-vehicle operation, or it can be disassembled to allow the printer to be taken out of the service point, for example, in goods delivery or route account processing. The mobile printer is designed to withstand shock and vibration in a mobile environment, and its power management, media handling and user interface functions are optimized for mobile applications.

Cart mounted

Desktop and desktop printers can be mounted on carts for mobility. Typical applications include distribution centers, signage, dual media, and other print jobs that require high capacity output or large media specifications. Trolley-mounted printers require power and are typically used with a PC or a portable computer mounted on a cart. Micro Printer Mechanisms

How to buy dot matrix printer

Dot matrix printer has its own unique technical support in the purchase and also with inkjet, laser printer has a very different.

classification

The dot matrix printer is divided into a general-purpose printer, a book-pin printer, a line-type dot matrix printer, and a high-speed dot matrix printer.

Bank-pin printer in the banking, post and telecommunications, insurance and other services widely used in the industry, line-type printer to meet the securities, telecommunications and other industries high-speed bulk printing business needs.

speed

In the print speed logo, dot matrix printer and inkjet, laser printer is different from the number of characters per second can be printed to identify, and in which the Chinese characters into the print speed and English characters print speed . Ordinary 24-pin dot matrix printer in the Chinese high-speed case in the 120 words / sec -180 words / sec between the high cost. There is also a high-speed dot matrix printer, the speed of the Chinese high-speed case can reach 200 words / second -400 words / sec between, suitable for high-volume report printing, but more expensive.

Print thickness

Print thickness is the need to pay attention to the purchase of dot matrix printer important technical indicators, its identification unit is mm, in general, if you need to print passbook or multiple copies of print, print thickness should be at least 1mm or more, if To achieve more than 2mm it would be better. If you just used for ordinary printing or used to print wax paper, then this indicator is not too concerned about.

Replication capability

Copy capability is the ability of a dot matrix printer to print a maximum of "several pages" on a copy sheet, which is directly related to the ability to print bills and reports. Such as: copy ability to identify the 1 +3 words, then the printer can use copy paper at the same time play up to "4". Of course, the need to consider the print thickness of the printer while doing a copy print.

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How to solve Thermal printer can't print

Printer is our most common in daily life, a class of office supplies, I believe many people are feeling the convenience of the printer at the same time, the printer has been troubled by a variety of problems, due to the type of printer, so the solution to failure Are different today for thermal printers, for everyone to send a few practical solutions:
Situation 1: the printer prints out the fuzzy or missing words.
1, check the power supply to ensure that the specified power supply manufacturers.
2, check the paper size to meet the printing requirements.
3, check whether the thermal head backlog of dust and other foreign matter, remove the deal.
4, if there is printed out of the ticket-like words or punctuation phenomenon, you can directly check whether the thermal head of fouling, if still can not rule out the removal of the fault, you may need to replace the thermal head or motherboard, direct contact with the relevant sales Department of after-sales office.
Condition 2: The printer can not print online
1, first check whether the printer is powered on, the light is on.
2, the printer and the host connection is in the normal state, if the connection is normal but the printer can not print, use the printer's self-test function, such as self-test function is not a problem, the printer may be in the host interface or interface cable, At this time to ensure that the host interface and the cable is intact, can be directly related to maintenance and sales after-sales issues.
Situation three: When the printer suddenly stuck in the printing process
1, encountered this situation first to see the printer and the host connection cable is loose, such as the confirmation is loose, try again after plugging in.
2, if the printer suddenly jammed, do not worry, it may be the printer over-temperature protection, we can touch the temperature of the print head to confirm whether the situation, but in the operation process must pay attention to, machine Head temperature will have a buffer of the time, do not rush to restart the printer.
At this point the printer's light should have a different status of the blink, facing the printer manual to fault can be excluded.
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How the micro printer works

The Printer Mechanisms consists of at least the following key components: the printer core, the print controller, the power source and the housing, and the Printer Mechanisms consists of the print head and the carriage motor movement mechanism, the paper motor movement mechanism and various sensors and so on. In these key components, and heat-sensitive micro-fight the biggest difference is that the general line of thermal micro-no word car motor movement and print head movement, and these are mainly by the thermal micro-print head of the different In the pin-type micro-decision, which also determines the different printing methods and control methods.

Dot matrix micro-printing is controlled by the print head movement and paper movement, and control of the print head out of the needle hit the ribbon and print paper, the corresponding point on the ribbon of ink printed on paper, which play the required paper information. Direct thermal line thermal micro-fight, the thermal head by a row of closely spaced evenly arranged special materials can be heated resistance component, each unit resistance corresponds to a point, control the different points of the power to the corresponding point of heating, And its close contact with a thermal coating of heat-sensitive paper can be printed on the corresponding point of information, and then through the control of paper, you can print out a variety of information. Another thermal micro-thermal transfer micro-fight, and its working principle and direct thermal thermal machine is basically the same, the difference is: thermal transfer micro-heat-sensitive coating by heating the ribbon, the The coating material on the corresponding ribbon heating point is transferred to a conventional printing paper.

Principle of the thermal printer

Thermal printer, the use of thermal printing technology, that is, the use of specialized thermal paper, a chemical reaction at high temperatures and discoloration, in order to achieve the effect of printing. Compared with stylus printing, thermal printing technology with noise, fast, clear print and other features, is now in the banking system, POS terminal systems, medical devices and other aspects of a wide range of applications.
For thermal printers, literal can be understood as in the heating state of the use of sensitive elements of the chemical reaction of the printing apparatus, which will be described in the printing principle of thermal printers most vividly. The thermal head is provided with a semiconductor heating element for heating the thermal paper; a print head for selecting a desired printing position or image; a thermal paper for accepting the printing position and for coloring at a high temperature To achieve the purpose of printing.

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The Principle of Thermal Printer

Thermal printer mechanisms in the core components for the thermal film, a row of tiny semiconductor components. These components generate energy when a certain current is applied.
    Thermal printer using thermal paper, thermal paper coated with a layer of heat will produce a chemical reaction and change the color of the coating. As the coating materials used in different varieties, so the color appears black, blue, purple and so on.
    After receiving the print data, the thermal printer converts the print data into bitmap data, and then controls the semiconductor element on the Printer Mechanisms to generate an appropriate temperature through the appropriate current according to the dot data. This causes the print data to be printed on the print paper.

Thermal printer advantages and disadvantages

       Micro printers generally have three types: stylus, pen and thermal. Relative to the dot matrix printer, thermal printing speed, low noise, clear writing fine image, easy to use. With the best thermal paper can save twenty years. But can not print directly duplex. Needle printing can print double, with a good ribbon, print documents can be stored for a long time, but the needle print slow, noisy, rough handwriting, need to change the ribbon. Pen print speed is low, high cost, but can quickly depict "vector" graphics.

Features of Micro Printer Products

Micro dot matrix printer more common micro-printer, the domestic very early Epson print head (Printer Mechanisms) products. Needle punch has the advantage that the printed documents can be stored for a long time, of course, you buy the ink on the ribbon must be of good quality, so many convenience stores are used in micro-hit, and because the needle print head control Simple, you can use a relatively cheap control panel program to produce, so cheaper. However, there are many shortcomings of the needle to play: noise, print speed, print head loss quickly, you need to change the ribbon, because the relationship between the principle, these are insurmountable. Thermal micro-printer: thermal micro-printer is also more common type of micro-printer, but the micro-printer than the needle came out later. Thermal printer prints fast, the noise is small, the print head rarely appears the mechanical loss, and does not need the ribbon, has exempted the trouble replacing the ribbon. But it also has shortcomings, because it is the use of thermal paper, it can not be indefinitely preserved in the dark conditions can save one to five years, there are long-term thermal paper can be stored for ten years. Wireless micro-printer: wireless micro-printer is now most of the infrared data communication technology, wireless micro-printer is the biggest advantage of wireless printing can be convenient, especially if you need to print in the outdoors when the convenience of even more Highlighted, but infrared printing also has its shortcomings, is the accuracy of its data transmission. Wired micro-printers: Compared with wireless micro-printer, the reliability of data transmission is higher, but if used in mobile printing, will become very inconvenient.

Applications of Thermal printer

Thermal printing technology was first used in the fax machine, the basic principle is to receive data into the lattice of the printer signal to control the heating of the thermal unit, the thermal paper thermal coating development. Now, thermal printers have been widely used in POS terminal systems, banking systems, medical equipment and other fields. Thermal printer can only use a dedicated thermal paper, thermal paper coated with a layer of heat will produce a chemical reaction and discoloration of the coating, similar to the photographic film, but this layer is heated will change color, the use of Thermal-sensitive coating of this feature, there has been thermal printing technology.Kiosk printer

What is the printer mechanism

Printer mechanism is an important part of the printer. If indeed the chip, the printer can not work properly. Its main role is to receive the print host to its issued instructions and data, and then through the relative combination of hardware and toner to the information reflected in the printed paper to go above. Here we recommend a reliable printer mechanism manufacturers.

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Causes of thermal printer line break

     Thermal sheet is main accessories of Thermal printer mechanism, which is the consumption of the entire movement components. The use of thermal printer is correct will directly affect the quality and effect of printing and movement of the life. "Broken line" of the problem with the following points:

     1) thermal printer thermal paper has a relatively high demand. The heat-sensitive sheet heats the heat-sensitive paper coated with a layer of chemical coating to develop the writing. If the paper surface chemical coating is not uniform, the larger particles stick to the thermal film on the heat can not be distributed to cause the local lattice burned. Resulting in "broken line" phenomenon. Similarly in the air density of the larger print, there "break line" probability increases.

     2) Thermal printer power adapter output voltage is not stable. The voltage beyond the thermal film range, local lattice will be burned out. Resulting in "broken line" phenomenon.
     3) in the air humidity is too high, the temperature is too high to use the environment, will affect the print quality and movement of life. Printhead premature aging. Resulting in "broken line" phenomenon or illegible handwriting.