{"id":5710,"date":"2025-12-17T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/faq-items\/what-is-the-difference-between-direct-thermal-and-thermal-transfer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:37:05","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-direct-thermal-and-thermal-transfer","status":"publish","type":"avada_faq","link":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/faq-items\/what-is-the-difference-between-direct-thermal-and-thermal-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between direct thermal and thermal transfer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1456px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Direct thermal prints black on thermal paper without a ribbon; suitable for short to medium life. Thermal transfer uses a ribbon (wax\/wax-resin\/resin) and is suitable for durable labels that must withstand temperature, friction and chemistry, among other things.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between direct thermal and thermal transfer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2900,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"faq_category":[122,123],"class_list":["post-5710","avada_faq","type-avada_faq","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faq_category-industrial-label-printers","faq_category-labels-on-a-roll"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/5710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_faq\/5710\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilabel.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_category?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}