Thermal Paper Bus Ticket Rolls
Thermal paper rolls are now widely used in daily life. It's the receipts you get from supermarket, shopping malls, restaurant, coffee shops, etc. Besides, it's also used as bus ticket rolls and for tickets of dispenser machines. As featured public utilities, bus transportation has great benefits to the environment. And due to its low cost and convenience, [...]
How to Pack Thermal Paper Rolls
Packing: 1) Silver Foil Packing 2) Golden Foil Packing 3) Shrink Wrapping 3) Shrink Wrapping-2 4) OEM: Silver Foil Packing with label 5) Loose Packing 6) OEM: Single Paper Packing Cartons: 1) Kraft Carton 2) White Box [...]
How to Measure Thermal Paper Roll?
Thermal paper roll is widely used in retail and POS indutries as a purchase receipt. Thermal Paper Rolls are measured by width, outer diameter and inner diameter. Take a thermal paper roll 80mm x 65mm x 12mm as an example, 80mm is the paper width; 65mm is the roll diameter; 12mm is the inner core size. Width: the [...]
How to Identify Thermal Paper?–Am I Using Thermal Paper?
How to tell if a receipt is thermal paper? Thermal paper roll is everywhere in daily life. In a fast chain restaurant, it consumes plenty of receipts per month. The consumption is also huge in supermarkets, banks, hospitals everyday. When you start a thermal paper business or consume rolls for your business, you need to recognize and identify [...]
Thermal Paper Price Increase in 2026
2026.3 Thermal Paper Coaters Announce 10% Price Increases Thermal paper coaters Domtar, Hansol, and Koehler have all announced a 10% price increase on all grades of thermal paper. The increases are being driven by tariffs, pulp prices, chemicals, other raw materials and increased manufacturing and supply chain costs. Please see a summary of the announcements below: Koehler - On [...]
How to make ATM Receipt Paper Rolls?
Bank receipt is what we get from Automatic Teller Machine after a transaction at a bank. There are many brands and models of ATM machines, such as Diebold, NCR, Wincor Nixdorf, etc.. To make the perfect ATM paper roll suitable for specific machine, you need to know every aspect of the paper for production. The following are the full details you [...]
The Demand for ATM Bank Receipts is Decreasing
The demand for ATM bank receipts is decreasing. Why does this happen? As the popularity of smart phones, mobile payment grows at a high speed in China. AliPay and Wechat Pay are the two giant companies controlling the industry. The society, especially for China, becomes cashless. I can pay all bills through Alipay or Wechat Pay. Even when [...]
3 Reasons to Choose Coreless Thermal Paper Rolls
Thermal paper roll has been the most popular receipts used in retail & POS industry. For decades of years, there is a plastic or cardboard core inside thermal paper. They are in different sizes and shapes.It works well, but why we should choose coreless thermal paper rolls now. There are 3 main reasons. The core is useless now.Years before, [...]
History of Thermal Paper
The earliest direct thermal papers were developed by NCR Corporation (using dye chemistry) and 3M (using metallic salts). The NCR technology became the market leader over time, although the image would fade rather rapidly compared with the much more expensive, but durable 3M technology. Texas Instruments invented the thermal print head in 1965, and the Silent 700, a [...]
Why to Choose Coreless Thermal Paper Rolls [infographic]
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Thermal Paper for Instant Camera
The instant camera is a type of camera which uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after taking the picture. Even though almost everyone has a phone, people can take photos any time any where, instant camera still has its market. The instant camera is very small and easy to use. It can [...]
How to Install Thermal Receipt Paper into Thermal Printer
When the thermal surface is on front side(outside) of paper, load the roll as below. When the thermal surface is on back side of paper, load the roll as below.
Thermal Paper Roll for Restaurants and Fast Food Chains
Thermal Paper Rolls are widely used as customer receipts in restaurants and fast food chains. The restaurant chains (like McDonald’s, KFC, Subway, Pizza Hut, Burger King) consume tons of thermal receipts everyday. Why is thermal paper chosen? The fast food chains are popular for its quick serving speed, unique and coincident taste. It accelerates every process, including checkout speed. Thus, [...]
Thermal Paper: for Short Story Vending Machines
Resources: Short Edition In France, a newly short story vending machine is catching people’s eyes in the railway stations. This machine dispenses short stories on receipt paper for free. People can print stories according to the time they got to read. There are 1 minute, 3 minutes, and 5 minutes options on the machine. This is a novel way [...]
The Expanding Market for Custom Printed Thermal Paper Rolls
As the development of mobile payment, thermal paper consumption has descreased at a rapid speed. Even though, customer are handing tons of receipts each day. And there is an interest fact that the custom printed thermal paper rolls are increasing their market share. Who are consuming custom rolls? Here are a few industries which prefer to custom printed [...]
How to Save Money When Buying Thermal Rolls for Your Store
Thermal paper rolls play an important role in business transaction now. It's a necessary stuff you have to consider when you start a store, whether a bookstore or a retail store. So how to save money when you buy thermal paper rolls? Thermal paper roll has several features you already knew. Width, diameter, core size are the physical [...]