The description on the box claims it is laser quiet (i.e. as quiet as a laser printer).
The product code on the ribbon is T144-CL.
The T could be an abbreviation for Thermal (as in thermal transfer) and the CL could denote colour.
This sounds similar to an Apple Scribe printer, which was also thermal transfer, colour, and high resolution (from memory).
The print head uses heat not impact pins to shift the ink (wax) onto the paper.
The catch is perhaps (= probably) you can no longer buy ribbons for either, and the ribbons can only be used once, perhaps 30 pages per ribbon. The black ribbon is coated with a black wax-like substance which is melted off onto the paper or even onto overhead transparency film (like a heavy rigid clear plastic). The colour ribbon has segments of alternating colours cyan, magenta, ? each about 8 inches long a b c a b c a b c throughout the length of the ribbon.
They are very good for colour transparency production.
This is only guesswork on my part, I have no first hand experience of the Star printer for sale.
The product code on the ribbon is T144-CL.
The T could be an abbreviation for Thermal (as in thermal transfer) and the CL could denote colour.
This sounds similar to an Apple Scribe printer, which was also thermal transfer, colour, and high resolution (from memory).
The print head uses heat not impact pins to shift the ink (wax) onto the paper.
The catch is perhaps (= probably) you can no longer buy ribbons for either, and the ribbons can only be used once, perhaps 30 pages per ribbon. The black ribbon is coated with a black wax-like substance which is melted off onto the paper or even onto overhead transparency film (like a heavy rigid clear plastic). The colour ribbon has segments of alternating colours cyan, magenta, ? each about 8 inches long a b c a b c a b c throughout the length of the ribbon.
They are very good for colour transparency production.
This is only guesswork on my part, I have no first hand experience of the Star printer for sale.