Different Types of Thermal Paper
Thermal paper is available in a wide range of widths and lengths. Most machine manuals recommend using a specific size and some may recommend a specific brand of thermal paper to use for best results. If you use the wrong size or type of paper in your machines, you could invalidate your equipment’s warranty. Even using paper that is too small for your machine can have an impact on your bottom line. Using thermal paper that is the highest diameter and width accepted by your machine will increase the number of receipts that you will get from each roll and decrease the amount of time you will have to spend changing the rolls. Why is the paper important to quality? There are two major factors in the print quality of the receipts and information printed out by your, FAX and other systems that use thermal paper. The first, of course, is the quality of the printer bond paper. The second is the quality of the paper, and it has a surprisingly large effect on the quality of the print. This is true even with standard printers, but it is all the more true when the ‘ink’ is actually part of the paper as it is with thermal paper. One important factor in choosing the right thermal paper for your business is how important and how enduring the print quality is with a specific paper. The pigment in many lower quality thermal papers is subject to fading within a short time of printing. If you rely on printed receipts for your record-keeping, then it will be important for you to choose a thermal paper that will stand up to time. This is not as important if you use a point of sale system that stores all transactions. Your customers, however, will very likely appreciate the extra attention to quality when they find themselves trying to balance a checkbook or credit card invoice using receipts that they can actually read. What’s the significance of A-grade when applied to thermal paper? While there are many different kinds of carbonless paper, there are two grades of paper that are most commonly used with systems A grade and TMP economy grade. The biggest difference between the two is the brightness of the paper. A grade thermal paper is much brighter white than economy paper, which means higher contrast and better legibility of the printing.