Direct Thermal – Custom

We provide custom direct thermal products in all shapes and sizes to fit your application.  Call our expert label consultants and they will provide you with the proper face sheet, adhesive and liner to fit your applications.

Thermal printing (or direct thermal printing) is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by selectively heating coated thermochromic paper, or thermal paper as it is commonly known, when the paper passes over the thermal print head. The coating turns black in the areas where it is heated, producing an image. Two-colour direct thermal printers can print both black and an additional color (often red) by applying heat at two different temperatures.

Thermal transfer is a very different method that uses a heat-sensitive ribbon instead of heat-sensitive paper, but uses similar thermal print heads.

Thermal printing is notable for being the only form of (non-embossing) printing which involves no ink or toner.