No matter in working principle or industry application ,thermal transfer printer and ink-jet printer have very big difference.

Thermal transfer printer, is printing on a kind of soft thin material package labels or smooth surface of the card, mainly used in fast food, candy, bread, fresh food, frozen food, fresh vegetables, cold wet paper towels Any flexible packaging industry such as solid powder (powder).

Ink-jet printer used the material of more extensive, in paper, plastic, metal, glass, hard surface or the surface of the soft and fragile all can get good spray printing effect, mainly used in food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, automobile parts processing, such as wire and cable industry, aluminum tube industry, electronics, tobacco industry, and many other fields.

The most important difference between thermal transfer printer and ink-jet printer is the identified object surface during the printing process, and ink-jet printer is using a non-contact way to spray printing

At the same time, ink-jet printer can be accurate to specific production time, have a powerful, fast speed, high efficiency, etc, can not only spray printing product serial number, QR code, bar code, images, characters but also the specific time. Ink-jet printer, also can match production line is suitable for larger output. And thermal transfer printer is suitable for printing the production date, shelf-life, validity, or batch number etc. 

Comparing with ink-jet printer, the advantages of thermal transfer printer is barcode recognition rate is more higher, the graph printing look better, more low failure rate. The warm prompt you, need to undertake choosing according to the content of the actual printing.