As the price of dye-sublimation printers comes down, and it surely will, these machines may even find their way into the home.

Consequently, a dye-sublimation printer produces true continuous tones appearing much like a chemical photograph.

Many consumer and professional dye-sublimation printers are designed and used for producing photographic prints.

Dye-sublimation printing A dye-sublimation printer uses a special ribbon, paper, and print head.

Dye-sublimation printers have some drawbacks compared to inkjet printers.

For environments that print confidential or secret documents, a dye-sublimation printer is a potential security risk that must be handled carefully.

Instead of the inkjet process, dye-sublimation printers layer four sheets of color onto paper in four passes.

While once the province of high-end print shops, dye-sublimation printers are now increasingly used as dedicated consumer photo printers.

The exception to this rule is a dye-sublimation printer that utilizes a printing method more akin to pixels per inch.

Unlike dye-sublimation printers, these printers cannot vary the dot intensity, which means that images must be dithered.

A dye-sublimation printer (or dye-sub printer) is a high quality computer printer that uses heat to make coloured images.

This means that dye-sublimation printers cannot match the flexibility of inkjet printers in printing on a wide range of media.

Both the Canon CP710 and the Kodak EasyShare 500 are dye-sublimation printers.

The types of printers used include inkjet printers, dye-sublimation printer, laser printers, and thermal printers.

Finally, dye-sublimation printers fall short when producing neutral and toned black-and-white prints with higher density levels and virtually no metamerism or bronzing.

Very few printing processes do not include black; however, those processes (with the exception of dye-sublimation printers) are poor at representing low saturation, low intensity colors.

The DPP-MP1 dye-sublimation printer, which weighs less than a pound, can print borderless, full-color photos that are about the size of a business card in less than two minutes.

As dye-sublimation printers utilise heat to transfer the dye onto the print media, the printing speed is limited by the speed at which the elements on the thermal head can change temperature.

A dye-sublimation printer (or dye-sub printer) is a printer which employs a printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to a medium such as a plastic card, paper or canvas.

Most dye-sublimation printers have filters to reduce the likelihood of this happening, and a speck of dust can only affect one print as it becomes attached to the print during the printing process.

Most dye-sublimation printers use CMYO colors which differs from the more recognised CMYK colors in that the black dye is eliminated in favour of a clear overcoating.

Kodak's Enhancement Station combines a scanner, an Apple Macintosh computer and a dye-sublimation printer, which applies color to a resin-coated paper with heat and pressure to produce a print that looks like a photograph.

That's surprising, because the P-10 is a dye-sublimation printer, meaning that it must pull the paper back and forth through itself four different times, once each to add yellow, red, blue and a clear protective layer to the photo.

Now there are many dye-sublimation printers on the market starting from as low as $100 marketed by corporations such as Canon, Sony, Sagem, HiTi Digital Inc., DNP Fotolusio, Mitsubishi Electric and Kodak (among others), especially postcard-sized mobile photo printers.