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Printhead & Platen Rollers

Printheads and platen rollers are crucial for maintaining high-quality printing performance. Printheads transfer text and images from the thermal ribbon to the label through heat, while platen rollers ensure precise alignment and pressure during the printing process. Aged or damaged components can lead to poor print quality, misalignment, and inconsistent imaging. To keep your printers running smoothly, we offer next-day delivery of top-quality printheads and platen rollers, along with on-site reviews and expert maintenance advice.

Essential Printing Supplies For All Your Needs

Here is why high-quality printheads and platen rollers are essential for your printing success.

Printheads

Function: The printhead is responsible for transferring the image or text from the thermal transfer ribbon to the label. It generates heat to melt the ink on the ribbon, which then adheres to the label surface.
Quality Impact: Aged or damaged printheads can lead to poor print quality, including faint prints, lines, or inconsistent imaging.

Platen Rollers

Function: The platen roller works in conjunction with the printhead, providing the necessary pressure to ensure proper contact between the ribbon, label, and printhead.
Quality Impact: Worn or damaged platen rollers can cause misalignment, slipping, and uneven pressure, resulting in poor print quality and potential label wastage.

Reliable Printing Supplies for Seamless Operations

To maintain optimal performance and high-quality printing, it is crucial to regularly check and replace printheads and platen rollers as needed. Regular maintenance helps in preventing common issues related to these components.

Poor Print Quality

Faded prints, streaks, or incomplete images.

Inconsistent Printing

Variations in print density and clarity.

Increased Wear and Tear

Excessive wear on other printer components due to malfunctioning printheads or platen rollers.

Quality Printing Supplies to Keep You Productive

Fast access to printing essentials is crucial for your business. By sourcing all your printing supplies from one place, we become your trusted partner for all your labelling needs.

Supply of Printheads and Platen Rollers

Next-Day Delivery: We can supply high-quality printheads and platen rollers for next-day delivery, ensuring minimal downtime for your operations.
Variety of Options: Compatible with various printer models and types to meet your specific requirements.

On-Site Review

Usage Analysis: If you find yourself frequently replacing printheads, we offer on-site reviews to analyse your usage and printer settings.
Optimisation: Our experts will help you optimise your printer settings and provide recommendations to extend the life of your printheads and platen rollers.
Maintenance Advice: We offer guidance on regular maintenance practices to keep your printers running smoothly.

Some of Our Clients

Case Studies

By adding value throughout our relationship, together, we can establish a solid foundation to a partnership that’s built to last.

Streamline Your Labelling Needs With An Experienced Partner

Simplify and optimise your labelling requirements by partnering with an experienced secondary labelling expert.

Switching labelling suppliers can be daunting, especially when working with a preferred supplier of a major retailer. The biggest concern is often whether the new supplier can deliver on their promises. With us, the answer is a resounding yes!

We specialise in rationalising labelling requirements, offering a comprehensive solution with our experienced secondary labelling expertise. Building strong client relationships takes time, but our reliability and performance have earned the trust of our clients.

As their labelling needs grew, so did their confidence in us. They expanded our full labelling solutions across their entire business, including our PrintProtect thermal printer repair contract.

What Do Our Customers Say About Us?

By choosing Watermill Press, you can ensure that your supply chain operates smoothly with labels that maintain their integrity and readability throughout the entire process, helping you avoid costly delays.

Excellent & Always Helpful

Excellent communication and responsiveness. A fantastic company that’s always incredibly helpful!

Group Purchasing Director - National Beverage Supplier

Brilliant Service

We have recently moved our label supplier to Watermill Press and their service has been brilliant!!

Warehouse & Systems Manager - National Logistics Company

Business in a Stronger Position

Watermill have been a strong factor towards the progressive improvement to our Compliance for M&S Scorecard. They have identified and supported our internal challenges 100% until the end. This has now resulted in GOLD scorecard for the service department. As a business we are now in a strong position with continuous improvement still being pushed from the Watermill team.

Site Service Manager - National Fish Supplier