A machine that prints barcode labels are known as a barcode printer. Small businesses and a wide range of industries use these labels to attach to several products for several reasons. Barcode printers designed for specific applications. Large warehouses, as well as manufacturing businesses employ industrial barcode printers.
What are barcode printers?
A barcode printer is a computer device that allows users to apply or directly print barcode labels or tags to physical objects. Barcode printers used to label boxes before shipment or print UPCs or barcodes on retail merchandise.
Types of barcode printers
Barcode printers include several types of equipment.
- Hot stamping machines: These use heat and pressure to apply an image onto a surface from a film that carries a thin leaf of color.
- Line printers: Contain a string of letters or pins that prints a single line. They are quick, but the printing quality is poor.
- Offset printers: A rubber cylinder used to transfer an inked design from a printing plate to papers or other media.
- Pad printers: Silicone pads used by pad printers to print on curved or plastic surfaces and used for relatively small images, text, as well as graphics.
- Plotters: Plotters are barcode printers that print line art and graphics on paper or other mediums using a pen.
Advantages
- Cost-effective
Small businesses can save a lot of money using barcode printers because outsourcing their printing needs can be very expensive. Buying a printer that meets their needs might help them save a lot of time and effort.
- Easy to use
Printers available are user-friendly, thanks to technological advancements and a customer-centric approach. They’ll be up and running with the system in no time.
- Resolution
The resolutions or the quality of prints are higher with thermal barcode printers as compared to a dot matrix or ink-jet printers. The former is known for high-density barcode printing. With high-quality, even 2.5 mil barcodes, which are extremely small, may be created.
Technology
Barcode printers use various technologies
- Daisy-wheel
- Screen printers
- Direct thermal printers
- Thermal transfer printers
- LED and LCD bar code printers
- Letterpress printers
With advanced technology, now use a barcode printer as a stand-alone machines. They have their keyboard option that gives access to the design and print labels without being connected to the computer systems. Any use of a keyboard makes life much easier for those who need to print on the go.
