What does 'TTO' stand for in Industrial Printing?
If you're in the very beginning of the shopping phase for an industrial printer, we have a jungle of acronyms that can lose anyone - especially TTO, TIJ, PIJ, CIJ and the like.
'TTO' simply stands for Thermal Transfer Overprinter.
How does a TTO Work?
Here at Domino North America, TTO's are represented by our V-Series. The printers themselves utilize a thermal transfer ribbon. Unlike, say, inkjets, they don't utilize ink, per se, instead, they utilize a colored wax that is transferred to the substrate when a heated printhead melts the thermal transfer ribbon.
If you're unfamiliar with the tech, we assure you, you've seen the codes on Foods, on Pharmaceutical Sachets and more.
![](https://www.domino-printing.com/image-library/code-gallery/v-series/thermal-transfer-coding-on-grape-packet.jpg)
Note the Best Before Date Code in the above image. That's a TTO code.