Thermal Color Printer - Polaroid ID-3000 Repair Manual

Polaroid ID3000 Service Manual Description

Thermal Color Printer

The Polaroid TX-1500 Color Thermal Printer (Figure 1-10) is a customer-selected output
alternative to the CI-5000 CFR described earlier. An ID-3000 System equipped with a TX-
1500 Printer is designated as an ID-3000T System.
The TX-1500 produces either one or two full-color ID card images on a single 4 x 5" (100 x
128mm) sheet. Print time is about 110 seconds after the frame button has been pressed. The
printing system is a dye diffusion thermal transfer process, which uses a three-color ink car-
tridge and paper supplied as a set.
Picture quality is characterized by 2.1 million available colors, 128 gray levels and 464 x 616
dots. On screen controls include color, tint, contrast and brightness.
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Figure 1-10 TX-1500 Color Thermal Printer used in ID-3000T System
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