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Printer speed is a key determinant of a printer’s price, and this is an easy

assertion to prove, so try this!

1. Open a browser and head over to the Web site for HP

(www.hp.com), Canon (www.canon.com), Epson

(www.epson.com), Brother (www.brother.com), or Samsung

(www.samsung.com). These five companies make most of the

printers on the market today.

2. Pick a printer technology and check the price, from the cheapest to

the most expensive. Then look for printers that have the same

resolution but different ppm rates.

3. Check the prices and see how the ppm rate affects the price of two

otherwise identical printers.

Dye-Sublimation Printers

The term sublimation means to cause something to change from a solid form

into a vapor and then back into a solid. This is exactly the process behind

dye-sublimation printing, sometimes called thermal dye transfer printing.

Dye-sublimation printers are used mainly for photo printing, high-end

desktop publishing, medical and scientific imaging, and other applications for

which fine detail and rich color are more important than cost and speed.

Smaller, specialized printers called snapshot printers use dye-sublimation

specifically for printing photos at a reduced cost compared to their full-sized

counterparts.

The dye-sublimation printing technique is an example of the so-called

CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) method of color printing. It uses a roll

of heat-sensitive plastic film embedded with page-sized sections of cyan

(blue), magenta (red), and yellow dye; many also have a section of black dye.

A printhead containing thousands of heating elements, capable of precise

temperature control, moves across the film, vaporizing the dyes and causing

them to soak into specially coated paper underneath before cooling and

reverting to a solid form. This process requires one pass per page for each

color. Some printers also use a final finishing pass that applies a protective

laminate coating to the page. Figure 26-8 shows how a dye-sublimation

printer works.

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