# Thermal Print

Receipt paper · 203 dpi

A receipt printer has no ink. A row of tiny heaters darkens special paper as it feeds past, eight dots to the millimeter. Thermal Print prints your picture that way, on a till roll that fades and streaks.

## Controls

### Print

- **Method** (Select: Threshold / Dither / Dots). How greys become dots. **Threshold** is a hard cut to black and white. **Dither** is a fine ordered pattern. **Dots** are round dots that grow with the dark.
- **Heat** (hero knob, 0 to 100, rests at 50). The hero. How hot the head runs. Low is a pale, starved print, high goes deep and contrasty.
- **Dot** (Knob, 1.0px to 6.0px, rests at 2.0px). How big each printed dot is.
- **Dot gain** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 30). The marks spread into the paper, so dots grow and the print darkens.

### Head

- **Banding** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 20). Pale stripes across the print where the head ran cold. Turn it up and dead dots leave thin white lines down the paper too.
- **Feed** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 20). The paper feeds unevenly, so rows wobble sideways.
- **Fade** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 15). The print fades, most of all toward the edges, like an old receipt.

### Paper

- **Paper** (Select: White / Warm / Pink / Blue). The roll. **White** and **Warm** print black. **Pink** prints a deep red, **Blue** prints purple, like carbonless copies.
- **Texture** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 30). The paper's mottle and fine grain.
- **Strip** (Select: Off / 58 mm / 80 mm). **Off** fills the frame. **58 mm** and **80 mm** cut it to a narrow strip with torn ends, clear around it.

## Presets

- **Convenience Store**: Crisp black on white till roll.
- **Faded Ticket**: Months in a wallet: pale, streaked, faded at the edges.
- **Receipt Strip**: An 80 mm strip with torn ends over whatever is below.
- **Pink Carbon**: Dots on pink carbonless copy.
- **Blue Copy**: Purple ink on the blue customer copy.