Absolute Beginner's Guide to A+ Certification

Dye-Sublimation Printers

Dye-sublimation (often abbreviated as dye-sub) printers are designed to do just one thing: print terrific continuous-tone photographs. Thus, you can't use a dye-sub printer in place of your trusty inkjet or laser/LED printer. However, dye-sub printers produce photo prints as good, if not better, than the best inkjets and are widely used in the “scan, crop, and print-it-yourself” workstations found in many photo departments and camera shops.

Although most dye-sub printers use a printhead rather than a laser mechanism to print, dye-sub printers still qualify as page printers. The photo can't be printed until all the data is received, because the print mechanism must make multiple passes to print all the colors and to apply ...