I also would like to know what a thermal printer is. I make a lot of quilts with pictures. Could I print pictures with a thermal printer? The ink is so expensive when I am printing lots of pictures, I would love to find another, less expensive way of doing this. Thanks
You can not use a thermal printer for your quilting photo's. Thermal printers are only black and white. How they work is the paper is heat activated.
For printing on fabric I use my Kodak all in one printer. Color cartidges are only $14.95 for color and $9.99 for black and last longer than the ones I used to use in my HP printer. The HP printer is really good for pictures as the colors print better than any other printer I have tried to print photo's on as well. I purchased mine at best buy but you can get them online and at Wal Mart too. I like to get mine at Best buy because everytime I purchase its either 2 or 3 things of ink I get a free ream of premium Kodak paper with my members rewards card plus I get points.