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Dye sublimation is a printing technology that uses layers of transparent color dye, special dye-receptive paper and a heated printing head to create images that are pretty close in quality to conventional photographic film and paper--up to 16.7 million colors and 403 dots per inch by 403 dots per inch.
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Dye, ink and paper tend to be more expensive for this method of printing than with normal color printers.
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The machine prints images at a size of 4 inches by 6 inches or 3.5 inches by 4 inches on paper that uses dye sublimation technology.
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Before printing, the embedded dye crystals are clear, so the ZINK Paper looks like regular white photo paper.
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