Hello, and welcome to a POSCatch.com
products presentation, and today we are presenting...
which thermal receipt printer is right for my business?
Well, that's a very good question; we get asked that question many times
throughout the year from retailers nationwide.
Unfortunately, there is not one answer for that.
Basically it depends on how much money the retailer is looking to spend,
how fast of a printer you want and what functionality you're looking for?
So there is varying different factors involved as far as which printer would
be best for your business.
What we did here is we chose what we think would be the 3 best printers
for entry, mid, and high-level. They're from 3 well-known manufacturers.
This one is the Citizen CT-S310 series II; this is an entry-level printer by
Citizen America.
This is a Star Micronics TSP100 series thermal receipt printer, and we're going
to use this as a mid-level printer in our presentation, and for the high-end
we've chosen the Epson TM-T88V thermal receipt printer. Now, all 3 receipt
receipt printers offer great value depending on what you're looking for. So, for example,
on this entry level thermal receipt printer this will cost
at POSCatch.com less than $150USD;
this is a 200 millimeters a second print speed.
It comes with the USB cable and also comes with a printer utility that allows
you to customize your receipts...very, very good for the price point and what it
offers. And by the way, this would be good for low-volume printing at a POS system,
low volume printing ideal for that, 3 year warranty.
TSP100 series, this prints up to a maximum of
250 millimeters per second print speed, and this thermal receipt printer right here
comes with a 4 year warranty.
This printer costs over $200USD, usually between $200 to
$240+ USD depending on the model. It is definitely one of the
better thermal receipt printers on the market today, and this is good for low
to mid-volume, low to mid-volume printing. And again it has that 4-year
warranty, and you also can customize your receipts with an awesome utility
that allows you to compress the font on the receipt so you can have paper savings.
This is the high-end model that we chose;
this is the Epson TM-T88V. This thermal printer costs on POSCatch.com in the upper
$200's USD...around $290 USD plus depending on the model you
go for.
Again, this is a 300 millimeters a second print speed printer; it is one of the
fastest thermal printers on the market, and this is really for are high-volume
....printing.
OK, so we're just going to do some quick test here so you can see...
we're going to do some onboard printer self tests
so you can see how fast they print, OK? So on this one right here
...
OK you can see that printed pretty fast there and also has the auto cutter.
See, it cuts the paper there for you.
OK, and so for the Star TSP100 series, we're going to print from the point of sale
applications so you can see what this looks like printing from the POS
software. So we're just going to go ahead and do a print right here. See that...
this has an auto cutter as well. OK, so this is 200 millimeters a second print speed.
Also you have other entry level thermal receipt printers that print less
than that. You can have other brands
that print from 100 to 150mm/second, but we wouldn't
recommend going anything lower than 200 millimeters a second print speed... maximum lowest!
And this is up to 250mm/second, and then this will be the fastest one right here.
This is the thermal Epson TM-T88V,
at 300 millimeters a second print speed. We're going to do a test on this one.
Here we go...see how fast that one was? So you can see...when they printed
they progressively got faster, and this one has also a 4-year
warranty on this as well.
So this is a basic presentation to show you entry, mid, and high end thermal
receipt printers. Of course there are varying differences available
with other printers on the market, but we wanted to keep this a basic presentation.
Again, to show you the entry, mid, and high range thermal receipt printers.
If you have any questions about any of these printers,
please don't hesitate to visit our website at https://poscatch.com or
give us a call.
Thank you.