Width picks the printer. Battery life and a wireless connection come after that.
Picture a studio that prints 70 mm script names through the week and a 190 mm forearm band on Saturdays. The names fit a narrow roll. The band needs a sheet. Yaba sells both kinds of stencil printer. Each listing names the paper path that belongs to that machine.
Measure the design first. Then open the listing whose path clears it. A phone can shrink a file. The feed opening stays the size built into the printer.
Measure the largest stencil before comparing printers
Record the widest design you print in one pass
Take the largest stencil you expect to print in one pass. Measure the inked design. Add the quiet margin you normally leave around the linework.
A palm-sized flash sheet and a shoulder panel you already plan to tape in sections are different widths. Both files can sit in the same album. Only one of them has to clear the feed.
Write the width in millimetres before you read battery life or app names. Keep two numbers if the studio prints small lettering and the occasional full panel. The printer has to clear the larger number, unless you have already decided that panel will be printed in pieces.
Treat feed width as a limit the printer cannot change
The paper path is a physical opening. You measure the design with a ruler. The listing then tells you whether that opening is wide enough.
On our A4 stencil printer the resolution line reads 203 dpi. Paper width, same line: 210 mm. The A3 listing’s paper size reads A3/A4 stencil transfer paper. The pocket listing supports 80 mm tattoo transfer paper. Three lines. Three feeds.
80 mm is a little over three inches across. 210 mm is the short side of an A4 sheet. A3/A4 on the larger listing means that machine is sold for both of those sheet sizes. A pocket roll stays a pocket roll when you load a bigger file.
Wider than the path named on the page? Split the file, or choose the wider machine.
Match that width to a paper path Yaba sells
Pocket rolls near 80 mm
Our pocket stencil printer is the narrow path. The page says it supports 80 mm tattoo transfer paper.
Small flash fits. Lettering fits. A design you would already draw inside a short roll fits. A full A4 sheet is a different job, because the support line is 80 mm.
Use this printer when the widest one-pass design sits inside that roll. If the studio’s larger work is already split into small sections, the pocket path can match the section. The whole tattoo is a separate width.
Portable sheet printers
Two portable listings publish two different kinds of detail. Our beginner portable printer states a sheet size of 218 millimetres. Wider than the 80 mm roll. Still a single sheet. Still short of an A3 sheet.
Our wireless portable printer names Android, Apple, Windows, MacOS, and ChromeOS. Same page: a 2000 mAh battery, and about 200 pages of images or text from one full charge.
Read the sheet size on that second listing before you treat the feed as 218 mm. Systems and a page count answer the next question. The beginner page is the one that states 218 millimetres.
A4 and A3 printers listed on the same category
Our A4 stencil printer states a paper width of 210 mm. The A4 size on that page is 210 by 297 mm. The same sentence calls the unit a tattoo transfer thermal copier machine.
Read it as the A4 path. 210 mm across. 297 mm long. A design inside 210 by 297 mm can stay in one print. A design wider than 210 mm needs a split, or a wider machine, even when the preview looks fine on the phone.
Another listing gives a paper placement range of 216 mm. That figure belongs to that page. It is a separate number from the 210 mm A4 width. Compare 216 mm with the design you measured. Wider than 216 mm, and this path is the wrong one.
Paper size on our A3 stencil printer: A3/A4 stencil transfer paper. Reach for it when the stencil needs the larger sheet. One machine, both sizes, is the other reason that page gives you. A design that already fits the 210 mm A4 path can stay on the A4 listing. The letters A3, by themselves, are a weak reason to size up.
Open the thermal printer category and read the width on the model in front of you. These feeds stay separate.
Confirm the sending device and the stated charge
Phones, tablets and computers named on the model page
Width first. The device that sends the file comes after the design fits.
The wireless portable listing names Android, Apple, Windows, MacOS, and ChromeOS. The listing that supports A4 size 8.27 by 11.6 inches works with smartphones or laptops, including iOS and Android.
Two compatibility sentences. Two listings. A studio that prints from a desktop should read the systems named on the exact model. A phone-only setup should do the same. A paper-width match is wasted when the file never leaves the device you actually use.
Sheets or meters stated for one charge
Charge claims on these pages use different units. They sit side by side. They do not share a scale.
Wireless portable page: 2000 mAh, about 200 pages of images or text, one full charge. Pocket page: up to 70 meters on a single charge. Pages in one sentence. Meters in the other. A short 80 mm roll and a full A4 sheet empty a battery on different clocks. How dark the stencil is, and when the count drops, is outside both sentences.
Use the figure as a session check after the width is right. A guest spot with a handful of small stencils is a light day. A day of large sheets is another. 70 meters stays 70 meters. 200 pages stays 200 pages.
Confirm the paper that model is sold to accept
Roll width versus sheet size
Paper is part of the path. The pocket page supports 80 mm tattoo transfer paper. The listing that supports A4 size 8.27 by 11.6 inches also says you can print on standard A4 sheets, or longer 14, in the wording on that page.
An 80 mm roll and an A4 sheet can both be called stencil paper. They still load into different feeds. Keep the paper sentence next to the printer sentence.
Own sheets already? Buy the printer whose page names that sheet. Own an 80 mm roll already? The pocket support line is the match.
What the product page states before the first order
One machine near these printers answers a different job. Our transfer copier says the transfer machine is not a printer and has no printing function. Maximum transfer size: A4.
A file sent from a phone or a laptop needs a printer listing. A drawing you already have, one that fits A4, and a transfer rather than a file print: that is the job this copier page describes.
The A4 printer that quotes 210 by 297 mm also uses the words “tattoo transfer thermal copier machine.” That phrase belongs to the A4 size on that listing. “This transfer machine is not a printer” belongs to the copier page. Read the product title and the paper line on the same listing before you order either box.
Before the first paid print, match three lines from one listing. Paper width or sheet size. Systems named for sending the file. Charge figure, in the unit that page uses. If one of the three is missing on the listing in the cart, read that field there. Leave the neighbouring model’s number on the neighbouring page.
Conclusion
The stencil you measured picks the printer. 80 mm roll. 218 mm portable sheet. 210 mm A4 path. 216 mm placement range. A3/A4 on the larger listing. Five feeds.
Systems and charge come after that match. The paper you load has to be the paper that listing names. The transfer machine that is not a printer stays in its own decision.
Quote requests need four details. Widest one-pass design, in millimetres. The listing you are comparing. The paper already on the shelf. The quantity.
FAQs
Q1: Can A4 paper go through the pocket printer that supports 80 mm rolls?
A1: The pocket page says it supports 80 mm tattoo transfer paper. A4 is the path on the listing that states a paper width of 210 mm and a size of 210 by 297 mm. A4 is also the path on the listing that supports A4 size 8.27 by 11.6 inches. The 80 mm line stays with the pocket printer.
Q2: Is the transfer copier a Bluetooth stencil printer with a wider sheet?
A2: That page says the transfer machine is not a printer and has no printing function. The maximum transfer size it states is
A4: A Bluetooth file printer is a different listing. Its paper path is the width written on that listing.
Q3: Why do the two portable printers carry different sheet details?
A3: The beginner portable page states a sheet size of 218 millimetres. The other portable page states Android, Apple, Windows, MacOS, and ChromeOS, plus a 2000 mAh battery and about 200 pages from one full charge. Read the paper width on the listing you are buying. Keep 218 mm with the beginner page that states it.
