A printer that applies dye from a dry ribbon onto specially treated paper. Heat from a print head vaporizes the dye, which is transferred onto the paper to produce a true photo-quality print.
The printing system that transfers colors from RGB, CMY, or CMYK computer files onto ribbons containing dyes that are heated and fused onto paper. Dye sublimation printers are continuous tone printers capable of producing photographic quality images.
A printer that produces highly detailed, photographic print-like images by using continuous tones rather than the dot patterns of an inkjet printer.
Nonimpact thermal printer that uses heat to transfer colored dye to specially coated paper, creating images that are of photographic quality. Also called a thermal dye transfer printer. 6.19
A dye-sublimation printer (or dye-sub printer) is a computer printer which employs a printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to a medium such as a plastic card, printer paper or poster paper. The process is usually to lay one color at a time using a ribbon that has color panels. Most dye-sublimation printers use CMYO colors which differs from the more recognised CMYK colors in that the black dye is eliminated in favour of a clear overcoating.