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hello and welcome to another poscatch.com product presentation and today we're going
to do a comparison review between the star mc print 3 and the epson tmm-30
receipt printers now as you can see by the design of both of these printers they're both the new
cube modular design which has been all the rage with point of sale printers for the last three to
five years or so as this is quickly becoming the new design look for thermal receipt printers now
as you can see both look very similar however this is superficial and so we're going to
first of all talk about the similarities between the two and then we're going to do a deeper dive
in what is the difference between the two so the similarities between the two as you can see
they well they they do look similar they're both cube printers uh in addition to that
they're both modular so the paper can come from the top as you can see right here or you can
reposition this printer where it would come out like that on the front [Music]
and the same is also for your star mc print 3 printer the star mc
print 3 thermal receipt printer is also modular design so for example you can have
the paper come out from the front or from the top depending on how you position it
of course it comes out from the front
and they can easily print from the top too so either way so both thermal receipt printers
uh they both come with an auto cutter so it will cut the paper for you after your receipt
is done printing the nice thing with both of these is they have really good cable management
and as you can see they both have a cover on the back which is great for cable management
so you can keep your cables your usb cable your printer cable your power cable nice and neat and
tucked away so if this is facing the customer they're not going to see a bunch of ugly wires
sticking into the back of your uh thermal receipt printer facing them at the pos system now the nice
thing about these covers on the back is they're easily removable so i'll show you real quick
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okay so as you can see the similarities between the two continue they're very similar in design
in the back one thing that i have to say though is that the only downside with the
design in the back here for the star this uh this power cable is a little difficult to get
in it's a little tight there in that corner whereas with the epson see there's much more
both printers they have the ports on the top this one here has the castrol port on
the bottom but these are all your i o ports on the top and then your power cable [Music]
and then the same with the star it has your ports on the top here including your cash drawer port
now there's different variations of this printer of both actually
they come with bluetooth you can get them with wi-fi also usb the nice thing with these uh
both of these thermal receipt printers is they are compatible with windows ios and also
android so they can work with those different operating systems both are able
to easily integrate with software as a service applications to where they can easily print from
uh online cloud applications uh printing from cloud applications which is all the rage lately
for many point of sale applications
the nice thing with the star as you can see here is that they labeled
their ports and on this particular one the advantage with the star and on this model for
example it has a two peripheral usb hub so this is really good if you want to connect this to
a tablet for example where you can connect in a barcode scanner and maybe a customer
display or something like that in both of those ports so you don't have to worry about trying
to figure out a way to connect them to your tablet because we all know tablets they have
usually only one usb port if any most both have bluetooth so you can do bluetooth connectivity
the epson thermal receipt printer does not have a two usb peripheral port option for example so
in that respect the star does have an advantage only if you're looking to connect additional
peripheral devices to a tablet based pos system again both of these thermal receipt printers are
designed really for for mobile applications where well they call it mobile applications if you're
using a tablet you can be stationary at a desktop at a counter top for example but they they'd still
call it mobile if you plan on connecting these to any tablet based pos system this is what these
receipt printers are designed for to open these printers it's drop and load paper designed for
both it's just very simple you just pop the paper in then you just close up your lid [Music]
and then that's it and then your paper is loaded and you're ready to go
the nice thing with both of these thermal receipt printers is they print very fast uh the starburst
printer does print faster than the epson so the star is at 250 millimeters a second whereas the
epson is at 200 millimeters a second also with both of these thermal receipt printers they have
uh better than average after sales warranties so in regards to their warranty uh with these they
are very good and both have uh free after sales tech support uh that's usa based which is great so
if you need assistance setting up your uh either one of these thermal receipt printers uh there
is support for you after the purchase directly with either star or epson and both also have a
fantastic utility both receipt printers come with a free utility uh that we did outline uh on the
previous product presentation videos we did for both of these printers so we did a deeper dive
on that and you can see that below in the comment section for both of those previous
reviews that we did on both of these printers that said the applications the software applications
that come with these are awesome much better than what you would get with a budget priced
thermal receipt printer they allow you to do all kinds of really cool things with your receipts
such as add logos do promos do digital receipts however i do have to say though that i think that
the star application uh slightly beats out the epson and versatility and features that it offers
both thermal receipt printers are a great value the star mc print 3 does cost more not by much
but it is a higher cost printer than the epson tmm-30 i think one of the main reasons for that is
is simply that star put a little bit more into the design and functionality of this printer after all
it does print faster you get a better i o board for additional ports uh on this particular printer
and also too one thing that i really like about this printer is how they did a really awesome job
here with labeling their ports on the back that said both thermal receipt printers are great value
again if you are looking to add additional peripheral items to your tablet based pos system
i would highly suggest the star mcprint 3 over the epson tmm-30 our final review
for both of these thermal receipt printers is we do believe that the
star mc print 3 is a better printer than the epson tmm-30 in overall value performance
features and functionality granted again it does cost a little bit more than the epson
but we think for that small amount that you pay at the cart when checking out we think it's
worth it in the long term for your business that said we give both printers a thumbs up
however with the star mcprint 3 we're going to give it two thumbs up awesome printer right here
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