You work for a small city IT department and you are going ov

You work for a small city IT department, and you are going over the different printing technologies with a new technician. Of the following, which do you say are examples of solid ink printing?

A. Bubble jet

B. Daisy wheel

C. Dye-sublimation

D. Thermal printing

Solution

C and D. Dye-sublimation is solid ink embedded into a roll of heat-sensitive plastic film which rolls past the print head and has the color pressed onto the paper. Thermal printing, also called thermal wax transfer, uses a film coated with colored wax, which is melted onto the paper.