What Is High Speed Transfer Paper? Why We Need It?

- 五月 03, 2017

In order to meet the requirements of markets, high speed sublimation paper becomes more and more popular. Then, what is high speed transfer paper?

High speed transfer paper means papers that dry considerably faster than the regular ones, meet the requirements of the latest generation of inkjet printers and even of tomorrow’s printers. And one common feature of them is that all the high speed paper are low weight, so they can dry fast.

Regular dye sublimation papers for open substrates typically show a gradual, ink absorption and dry relatively slowly. Transfer printers have adjusted to this phenomenon in different ways. In many cases, the slow drying does not pose a problem, even on fast inkjet printers(plotters). Printers fall back upon a box of tricks to make sure that the paper is dry and, more importantly, smear-resistant before it is wound-up. The oldest and simplest trick is extending the paper path in the printer. This often is done by simply putting the rewind on the same side of the printer as the unwound, and by installing some extra rolls to guide the web underneath the printer. Sometimes, you see a separate winding stand at a short distance from the printer. Another solution is a heated plate under the sublimation printed paper that is sometimes combined with a heated plate before the printing heads. In many cases, an array of fans is used for additional convection drying. The above-mentioned tricks are so widely used that they are standard features on many printers.

Besides the dry rate, then price of our high speed paper is also competitive. As we all know, low weight sublimation paper do have a lower price than the heavy weight sublimation paper.