ROHM’s New Thermal Printhead Provides Clear Printing at High Speeds, Even on a Single-Cell Li-Ion Battery
Novel design contributes to better miniaturization, lighter weight, and improved vitality financial savings
ROHM’s New Thermal Printheads
Printing Vitality and Printing Outcomes Comparability
Santa Clara, CA and Kyoto, Japan, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ROHM Semiconductor in the present day launched the KR2002-Q06N5AA thermal printhead, suitable with single Li-ion battery cell (3.6V) battery drive that achieves excessive efficiency printing whereas bettering vitality financial savings by roughly 30%.
In recent times, the significance of cost terminals and logistics cellular label printers has continued to extend following the expansion of digital cash funds. For cellular label printers and cost terminals, 2-cell Li-ion battery thermal printers have turn into mainstream on account of their printing velocity and print high quality.
Single-cell Li-ion battery drive permits printers to be made smaller, lighter, and extra vitality environment friendly, however drawbacks similar to slower printing velocity and shorter battery life forestall widespread use. In response, ROHM developed a thermal printhead that may obtain the identical print output as a 2-cell drive even with a single Li-ion battery cell.
The KR2002-Q06N5AA makes use of a radically new construction that breaks away from conference. Along with optimizing the glaze design (which features as a warmth storage layer) and adopting particular low resistance warmth parts, the protecting movie construction on the warmth parts was optimized. This ensures environment friendly switch of generated warmth to the print media, similar to thermal paper and thermal switch ribbons. On the similar time, enhancements to the driving force IC and wiring construction enhance printing efficiency by effectively changing energy equipped to the system into thermal vitality. Concurrently bettering warmth switch and energy effectivity permits ROHM to realize important vitality financial savings.
These enhancements make it attainable to realize the identical printing velocity and high quality as typical heads pushed by two Li-ion battery cells (7.2V) with only a single cell. ROHM additionally succeeded in decreasing the utilized vitality required for printing by about 30% over current single-cell drive thermal printheads. This interprets to better vitality effectivity whereas decreasing the dimensions and weight of thermal printer tools.
Going ahead, ROHM will proceed to increase its appreciable lineup of thermal printheads that ship excessive picture high quality, industry-leading print speeds, and superior effectivity.
Availability
Utility Examples
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Logistics label printers, stock administration terminals, receipt printers for cost terminals, POS (Level of Gross sales) printers
For extra data, together with product specs, please go to www.rohm.com/merchandise/printheads/mobile-printers.
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CONTACT: Keng Ly ROHM Semiconductor (248) 348-9920 [email protected] Heather Savage BWW Communications (408) 507-4398 [email protected]
