This data set contains the data collected during the FNS project Green Piezo (Grant no. 179064) in association with the recent publication entitled “Printed ecoresorbable temperature sensors for environmental monitoring”. This work aims to study the effect of photonic sintering parameters on the temperature behavior of printed zinc resistors, with the aim to fabricate eco-friendly and ecoresorbable temperature sensors on paper. Biodegradable electronic devices have potential in tackling the increasingly pressing challenge of electronic waste and printing methods allow to reduce toxic byproducts of fabrication and wasted material. The sintering method that is optimized here is based on our previous work combining electrochemical and photonic sintering approaches to enable the fabrication of highly-conductive degradable metal tracks. We optimize the sintering parameters to obtain zinc resistors with a high temperature coefficient of resistance and a linear temperature response curve. The data that was collected in the frame of this work is present in this repository. More information about the contents of the dataset is present in the included README files.