Hi this is Travis with POSGuys.com.
Today we're looking at the POS-X TP4 All-In-One POS Computer.
This is a touch screen computer.
It is a computer monitor all-in-one.
All metal stand, all metal casing.
It's a great durable product.
It comes in two versions.
A capacitive version that has a glass like touch screen and it also has a resistive version
where the screen is a little softer, not quite as clear but a little better for certain environments
like restaurant or outdoor garden centers.
Here I have the resistive version and the capacitive version of the TP4.
The capacitive is going to be a better looking picture and it's also going to be a slicker
screen.
So it's kind of slippery on it.
That makes dragging really nice.
It's also multi-touch so if you need to do enlarging, shrinking, you can.
You can do gesturing with this type of screen.
The resistive screen doesn't respond quite as well and you can't really do multi-touch.
So you can only do one point at a time.
For point of sale where you are basically just clicking buttons
multi-touch isn't a big deal.
If you're doing any kind of gesturing though you're going to need a capacitive screen.
The one bonus that resistive has over capacitive is that you can use pens
or you can use gloves
you can use anything that can put pressure on the screen to touch it.
The capacitive
won't respond to a pen
or if you have gloves on whether it's just little silicon gloves or garden gloves it
will only respond to finger or a stylus made to be used on capacitive screen.
So keep that in mind.
How are you going to be touching the screen?
If you're going to be only using your fingers and it's going to be a nice clean environment,
capacitive will be fine.
If you're going to be using pens or gloves
than you're going to want to go with a resistive screen.
A little better picture.
A little more flexibility.
This has multi-touch.
This does not.
The touch screen in general on the TP4 is incredibly responsive.
It responds pretty much as fast as you touch.
So you can be very fast.
Touch screens in general have come a long way.
Before there was kind of a delay you had to time your touches.
Now
there is no delay, you touch
and it responds.
So great overall responsiveness.
A definite upgrade if you're using and older all in one PC.
Take a look at the P-Cap version.
Take a look at the POS-X All-In-Ones in general.
Here is the attached card swipe.
It bolts right on and it's real sturdy.
You swipe your card right through.
Another additional accessory is the customer display.
Where it goes is on the back.
This piece pops out and then you can screw on the customer display.
There is two different types.
There is the traditional LCD display that just has two lines.
It's a VFD type of display and it just shows text.
There also is a rear mountable LCD monitor that can go on the back if you're going to
do more of a digital signage type of approach.
So, card reader, rear display.
The ports on the TP4 are as follows.
You have your Ethernet port for standard networking.
Here is a cash drawer port if you're not going to be using a receipt printer.
Normally the cash drawer plugs straight into the receipt printer.
These are your serial ports if you're going to be using a pole display or a scale.
You have to get an adaptor though.
One end plugs in and then there is your standard nine pin serial port on the other side.
You have four USB ports this is more commonly where you would plug in a barcodes scanner,
receipt printer,
even a pole display.
USB is the most common interface.
Uh for older restaurant setups here is your standard parallel port for plugging in a kitchen
printer and here is the VGA port for using the rear mount LCD.
Speaker port is also available if you are going to be using audio of any sort.
The POS-X TP4 works great with Aldelo or CRE.
Some of our popular retail and restaurant options.
If you are using it with Aldelo keep in mind that the EDC requirements require you to have
a 2 GigaHertz Processor so this would have to be an order station and not the credit
card processing server.
A good alternative is to use a back office computer for your credit card processing server.
You can still run your credit cards through here, it can just can't be the server.
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