I believe we can often encounter such a situation, when you go to themall or supermarket will see the goods have above a small label, label is ablack and white vertical lines (the name is very not professional term,but very straightforward), when we go to the checkout, assistant ahandheld scanner to scan the tags on goods, the goods you should payimmediately displayed on the terminal pos.

Here the vertical channel term called bar code, its widespread use has led to its corresponding equipment rapidly, and the bar code printer is one of the most important equipment of bar code applications are widely used in manufacturing industry, logistics industry need to label printingindustry.

As the name suggests, the bar code printer is of course the print barcode printer. Is a kind of printer. The common bar code printer is mainly used in shopping malls. Barcode printer ribbon through the print head (the equivalent of a ribbon needle) on ink printed on the bar code printing paper (paper printing self-adhesive type has certain standardsize.). Can be used as a common printer (if you're not too narrow), train ticket barcode is the bar code printer.

The most important part of bar code printer is printing head, printing head is composed of a thermistor, the printing process is the thermistor heating ribbon on the toner transfer to paper. So when the choose and buy of bar code printer, the print head is a notable part with it, and the ribbon is the whole process of printing of the soul.

In the printer common on the domestic market at present because the brand differences, there are two kinds of different print head, a platenprinting head, the print head pressure in the ribbon, the print head canadapt to all kinds of ribbon, with a wide range of users, the print head is the most common, bar code printers are widely used in all kinds ofbrand; the other is suspended type print head, this is a print headmodel, the print head just press the ribbon, the print head while on the ribbon requirements are relatively high, but it has a ribbon savingfunction, so it is widely used in some strong technical force of thecompany.