Receipt Printer paper rolls:   The striking feature of a POS printer is it prints rapidly (to about 8 inches per second) despite its small compact size.   The fact also remains that the consumable for POS receipt printers is paper rolls instead of paper sheets and operation wise, these POS printers are quite cost effective. We use the widely used brands of POS printers POS-X.

Impact Receipt Printers:

  Bulk of the POS printers deploys either dot-matrix or thermal transfer printing technology. A dot matrix uses a print head that travels back and forth on the page and prints by impact. It strikes an ink-soaked cloth ribbon against the paper and is therefore also known as impact printer.POS-X XR210 Impact Receipt Printer is perfect for extreme environments such as kitchens and has 3 year advance replacement protection.

Thermal Receipt Printers:

  Unlike an impact printer, a thermal printer creates a printed image by heating thermal paper selectively, similar to the way a fax machine prints. Thermal printers are capable of speedy operation and are naturally more cost effective as they do not need ribbon replacement. It is preferable to opt for thermal printing unless you require printing on 2 ply-papers. POS-X XR510 Thermal Receipt Printer is perfect for high-volume retail and hospitality operations and has 5 year advance replacement protection.

POS Receipt Printers:

  Receipt Printer is a key component of restaurant, hospitality, medical, or the service industries POS systems. POS printers can connect to your computer using different interfaces – such as USB, Parallel Port or Serial Port. You should opt for a USB connection unless you are using an old model computer that either has only a parallel or serial port.

  There are available in the market a wide range and brands of printers – from single station printers to multifunction printers that offer state-of-the-art printing performance. It is suggested that you should go in for a printer that has a paper cutter facility and a port that supports a cash drawer.

  Before using a receipt printer, you should check to see the computer is connected with the drivers for the printer installed. The receipt will automatically print via POS software, or you can choose receipt printer in the printer dialog box in Windows.

Barcode Printers:

  In this age of advanced electronics, there is a compelling necessity to use Barcode Printers. To those less familiar, barcode is a machine-readable representation of information in a visual format on a surface. A barcode printer can be defined as a computer peripheral for printing barcode labels or tags that can be attached to various physical items. Barcode printers are commonly used to label cartons before shipment or to label retail items with Universal Product Codes.

  The Universal Product Code is the standard bar code printed on most retail store merchandise. It contains both the vendor's identification number as also the product number that are read by passing the bar code over a scanner.

  Barcode Printers employ two major printing methods - Direct Thermal (DT) and Thermal Transfer (TT). Desktop barcode printers are ubiquiously used for entering product information at retail stores and in shopping complexes. There are also industrial barcode printers that are used in manufacturing facilities and large warehouses for inventory management and also sales process automation.