Thermal Receipt Printer – Automate your Point of Sale Process

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  • Date: 2006-06-05
  • Author: Brad Jones
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         Receipt Printer is a low-cost, long-life, variant of a thermal printer. It comes as a single compact module with an integrated cutter for easy integration into your terminal or kiosk. Receipt printer generally has very high memory and work at high speed.

    It is an important point-of-sale device for the retail and hospitality industry.

    A receipt is a typed/written acknowledgement that a specified article or sum of money has been received. We have come across different kinds of receipts in modern times. For every product we purchase and every service we subscribe we get a receipt. Hence receipt printers outnumber the document printers used for printing reports, books, newspapers, etc.

    Receipt is a proof of a transaction for the purpose of exchanging or returning merchandise. Some retailers provide special "gift receipts" specifically for this purpose. Unlike a standard purchase receipt, the gift receipt omits certain information, most notably the price that was paid for an item. The receipt usually has a barcode at the bottom so that the retailer can call up the transaction information from a database of previous purchases, thus authenticating a return.

    The thermal
    * Inkjet receipt printers: Fairly rare inkjet receipt printers give you the ability to print in multiple colors. However, they have neither the speed of thermal printers nor the low costs of dot matrix printers.

    Most thermal receipt printers have inbuilt buffer memory to store logos, graphics and other necessary items. They come with associated tools for sketching the logos, pictures etc. For security purposes, they store a second copy of all the transactions for future reference. Newer generation of receipt printers come with inbuilt power backup features.

    Changing paper can be a hassle when you have customers waiting; many receipt printers now have drop-in paper loading, which can simplify and speed up the process.


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    <a href=http://www.pointofsalecomponents.com/ target="_blank">Point of sale Components</a> offers you a wide variety of thermal receipt printers to suit all your point of sale needs. From barcode scanners, barcode printers and decoders, bar code labels, bar code label printers, bar code label software, bar code labels or, we have it.

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