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How to Choose POS Printer

This presentation shows how to choose the best receipt printer for POS system for retail, restaurants, and cafes. <br><br>The ability to print is an essential function that each POS system should have. Usually, retail businesses need to print receipts for customers; restaurants and cafes need to print bills, receipts, and kitchen orders. The ever-growing modern trends try to find alternatives for such printed documents to nonpaper variants, such as e-receipts or messages on the kitchen screens. However, despite that, many customers still prefer the paper version or receipts.

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How to Choose POS Printer

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  1. How to Choose POS Printer

  2. What kind of printer will work best in your business? This presentation shows how to choose the best receipt printer for POS system for retail, restaurants, and cafes.

  3. What do POS printers print? Retail • Receipts Restaurants, Cafes • Receipts • Bills • Kitchen orders

  4. Important! POS printers work with POS app. Check the list of supported models for your POS and select from the recommended printers. Even though some POS apps allow the connection of receipt printers besides the supported models, it is better not to risk it and choose from the supported list.

  5. Advantages of printers from famous brands • Stable characteristics of models • Durable performance • Simple connection • Wide documentation • Network of service centers • Ability to solve possible technical issues with printers

  6. POS printers classification by printing ways Thermal Dot matrix Inkjet

  7. Thermal receipt printers Pros: • Printing speed • Picture quality Cons: • Heat sensitive receipts that may lose image

  8. Dot-matrix printers Pros: • Image is not affected by the heat.Good as kitchen printers. Cons: • Noisy • Slow • Low quality • Extra consumables

  9. POS printers classification by form factor Big printers suppliedfrom power outlet Mobile (moveable) receiptprinters with installed batteries

  10. Big printers • Bigger paper rolls allow more receipts to print from one paper loading. • Connection to power outlet needed. • High printing speed. Recommended to use in fast-paced environment with > 100 customers a day

  11. Mobile printers • Installed batteries allow them to work without connecting to an outlet. • Compact size, take little space on the counter, possible to be held in the hands. Recommended to use in a not so busy environment < 100 customers a day

  12. Amount of tickets printed from one paper roll The number of receipts with three different receipt lengths (10, 15, and 20 cm), which comes from a paper roll of varying lengths Consider the frequency of changing paper rolls in your business

  13. POS printers classification by connection interfaces Ethernet (WiFi) Bluetooth USB

  14. Ethernet printers Pros: • stable connection • small printing delay • possibility to connect several POS to the same printer. Cons: • complicated connection: need a WiFi router and wires Best choice for large facilities with printers in different rooms(especially in the kitchen) and in increased customer flow.

  15. Bluetooth printers Pros: • No wires • Simple connection Cons: • Connect to only one POS • Limited length to POS • Unstable connection • Printing delay Best choice for a limited space environment(especially with mobile printers) and in a low customer flow.

  16. USB printers Pros: • Simple and stable connection • Small printing delay Cons: • Connect to only one POS • Wire limits length to POS • Occupy a USB socket of mobile device Can work in a customer flow of different sizes.

  17. Connection with external devices Cash drawer Kitchen bell Check if the printer has RJ11 socket if you want to connect these devices.

  18. Integrated printers Star mPOP is a combined Bluetooth POS receipt printer and a cash drawer.

  19. Integrated printers The whole POS system in one body Cons: • If your device stops working, you need to change the whole machine. Pros: • Saves time and money by buying only one piece of equipment.

  20. Questions • What kind of printer will work best in your business? • Are you going to print receipts, bills, or kitchen orders? • How far do you plan to place your printers from the POS? • How many customers do you have per day on average? • What is the length of your product names? • What is the length of your average receipt?

  21. When your business grows, you may need to change the printer model to suit the new circumstances better. POS printer needs to fit to your business

  22. Thank you! Contact us: help@loyverse.com www.loyverse.com

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