Barcode Printers

Direct thermal prints by heating a chemically treated label, so it needs no ribbon, but the print fades with heat, light and abrasion. Thermal transfer uses a ribbon to melt ink onto the label, which lasts far longer. Use direct thermal for short life labels such as receipts and shipping labels, and thermal transfer for anything that has to survive storage, sunlight or chemicals. Most printers in our range do both.

It comes down to daily volume, label width, the environment the printer sits in and how long the label has to last. A few hundred labels a day at a counter suits an entry level desktop printer. Continuous shift printing on a production line needs an industrial printer. If labels are applied away from a desk, a mobile printer saves the walk. Tell us your application and we will size it for you.

203 dpi is enough for standard barcodes and text on most labels, and it is the fastest option. Move to 300 dpi when you print small text, small format tags such as jewellery labels, or dense 2D codes that need finer detail. 600 dpi is for very small, very detailed marking.

Yes. Sun Data Processing has manufactured self-adhesive labels at Mira Road since 2002, and we supply thermal transfer ribbons, direct thermal rolls and tags alongside the printers, matched to the material and the printer you are running.

Yes. We provide after-sales support, repair and maintenance for barcode printers, scanners and portable terminals, and printers can be covered under an Annual Maintenance Contract.

An RFID printer can. It encodes the RFID inlay inside the label and prints the human readable barcode in the same pass. A standard barcode printer cannot encode RFID, so if RFID is on your roadmap it is worth specifying at purchase.