It doesn’t fall off, but it does start to break down pretty quickly. And ambient UV light makes it fade even faster. But if the print is dark and bold, and you store it someplace cool and dark, it should last a year or 2. Having said that, I have noticed that somehow, for some unknown reason, the registers in departments where you make big purchases, like say the electronics department, always seem to print much much lighter than the rest of the registers. It’s some kind of unsolvable mystery that can never be understood.
Doesn’t thermal ink basically fall off the paper in a few weeks? At least receipts and such fade pretty quickly.
It doesn’t fall off, but it does start to break down pretty quickly. And ambient UV light makes it fade even faster. But if the print is dark and bold, and you store it someplace cool and dark, it should last a year or 2. Having said that, I have noticed that somehow, for some unknown reason, the registers in departments where you make big purchases, like say the electronics department, always seem to print much much lighter than the rest of the registers. It’s some kind of unsolvable mystery that can never be understood.
Nah, definitely not weeks. They say it could deteriorates after a few years, but I have some printed scores from 2024 that still looks good.
So yeah, in my experience it’s good enough for a couple of years, but it’s not for permanent things you want to keep forever.