what's Dye sublimation thermal transfer printer?

[dhkkim]

does it need special inks? or special papers?

 

[xXgambitXx]

Poof:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question583.htm

The only kind of printers i've seen that use this are those small travel photo printers. There's no traditional ink cartridge on it, it's almost like a roll of thermal ink. From my experience it's cool to have on travel printer but too wasteful and expensive for day to day printing.

 

[snoturtle]

There used to be some desktop ones that used dye sub aswell as wax

haven't seen any in some time though

 

[Geomagick]

I remember years ago my IT teacher had a thermal wax printer. Was great for presentations and stuff but pretty useless at anything alse. You put giant wax crayons in it.

Dye Sub was always very high quality but modern inkjets have made it too uneconomical for all but the most specialist applications

 

[Hardlin]

I have the Olympus P10 dye sub photo printer and it is great. All my photos come out much better on it than on my HP inkjet. It does cost around 34 cents a picture, but I get them in less than a minute (never really timed it) and they look like they came from a photo lab. Just my thoughts.

 

[dhkkim]

so it doesnt cost any extra money other than special paper?