Print on demand
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Print on demand is a printing technology and business process in which book copies are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints in single or small quantities. While other indus
An on-demand book printer at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco, California. Two large printers print the pages (left) and the cover (right) and feed them into the rest of the machine for collating and binding. Depending on the number of pages, printing may take 5 to 20 minutes.
Thermal printing
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Thermal printing is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by passing paper with a thermochromic coating, commonly known as thermal paper, over a print head consisting of tiny elect
A thermal printer
Bills and receipts are typically printed on thermal paper.
A thermal print head
Thermal print head at high magnification