What are the disadvantages of using a dye sublimation printer?

Although there are many advantages ofdye-sublimation printers, in fact,dye-sublimation printers also have disadvantages. So what are the disadvantages of dye-sublimation printers? Let us take a look at it next.

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lPrinting speed is slow

lNot suitable for text printing

lNarrow print format

lThe use environment is very demanding

lHigher purchase costs and consumables

Printing speed is slow

Since the dye-sublimation printer prints the three primary colors of red, yellow and blue in cycles, each time the dye-sublimation printer prints a color, the paper has to go back and forth in the printing channel. Therefore, to complete a printing task, it needs to go through the paper three times. The film needs to be added again. Therefore, the efficiency of dye-sublimation printers is much slower than that of inkjet printing. The speed of traditional color printing is almost three times faster than that of dye-sublimation printers. In addition, dye-sublimation printers cannot increase the printing speed by reducing the printing resolution. This makes the dye-sublimation printer unsuitable for applications that often require continuous printing, and prevents it from achieving greater development in the commercial field.

Not suitable for text printing

Since the sublimation printer mixes solid pigments of four colors including black for printing when printing text, its black purity is very low and cannot be compared with jet printing. Therefore, the sublimation printer is not suitable for printing. The purpose of text printing.

Narrow print format

At present, most ordinary dye-sublimation printers only have the output capacity of 4×6 inches (A6 format), which is just the size of ordinary photos. Compared with the jetted A4 or even A3 format, the dye-sublimation printer still has a big gap. The larger-format dye-sublimation printers are not only expensive, but the consumables are also very expensive, which is not suitable for popular users.

The use environment is very demanding

Dye-sublimation printers are very sensitive to dust. If dust enters the print head or ribbon, the print quality is likely to have a serious impact, such as forming a long white thin line, causing the entire photo to be scrapped. In addition, dye-sublimation printers also have high requirements for working temperature. If they work continuously for a long time, the color accuracy may be affected due to poor heat dissipation.

Higher purchase costs and consumables

At present, an ordinary dye-sublimation printer costs about 1,000 yuan, which is still a lot more expensive than the price of an ordinary household color inkjet printer of only about 300 or 400 yuan. Secondly, because the current dye-sublimation printers are also slightly more consumables than the inkjet printers, for example, printing a 6-inch photo, the cost price of each photo using inkjet printing is about 2.5 yuan, while the cost price of dye sublimation printing is about 3 yuan (including printer depreciation, ink, ribbon, and photographs). However, due to the large difference in the price of printing consumables, the cost of some printing consumables is even more expensive than that of dye-sublimation printers, so the cost of dye-sublimation consumables is still acceptable.

However, in order to better enable consumers to buy cheap and affordable dye-sublimation printers, the company is working hard to develop and reduce costs and overcome the shortcomings of dye-sublimation printers. If you have an understanding of the business of dye-sublimation printers and Sublimation Transfer Paper , you can contact us, our website is https://www.feiyuepaper.com/.