Thermal transfer printers produce shades of colors by placing color dots side-by-side (see dithering). Printing faster than dye sublimation, consumables (ribbon and paper) are also less expensive ...

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The sublimation dye is activated with heat, and, of course, you are shooting out hot plastic, so the image will transfer to the plastic. [Teaching Tech] explains the best settings to make it all work.