Thermal Transfer – Custom

We offer custom labels capable of being thermally imaged in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, face sheets, liners and adhesives.  Contact our label consultants and we will design a specification to fit your application to a T!

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 printing 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.