Apple Thermal Transfer printer

Some thermals use the heat of the printhead to blacken the thermal paper, others use the heat of the head to melt off the coating on a plastic ribbon (like the old Commodore color printers) - some can do either, such as Zebra, DataMax, etc. The serial printers that UPS accounts use to make shipping labels have thermal labels. The Zebra/Datamax types that I've worked and used work well with either a ribbon or thermal labels, mostly for barcodes. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Edwin P. Groot -> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:15 PM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: Re: Apple Thermal Transfer printer -> -> -> Good rescue! Why would a thermal printer need a ribbon? All the -> printers for my HP stuff just need thermal paper rolls. -> Edwin -> -> At 05:40 PM 6/30/2001 -0400, you wrote: -> > I walked out my door this afternoon to find an Apple Thermal -> >Transfer printer sitting next to the garbage can outside of our -> .... -> >serial cable attacbed to it. It's missing whatever head/ribbon would -> >be installed and I rescued it just minutes before a thunderstorm -> >moved through. If anyone is interested in it, you're welcome to it -> > -> > Jeff ->