Pros
Offers energy star level 5 qualified for greater efficiency.
Reduced energy consumption by 29%.
Cons
Doesn’t not support USB plus power, Ethernet(10/100 Base-T), and Wireless LAN(IEEE802.11b) interfaces and has increased space consumption.
TVS RP 3160 star is a 3 inch thermal bill printer designed by TVS electronics with 1 year warranty at a reasonable price for providing you an enhanced billing experience. It can print at a speed of 160mm/sec to avoid the queues in your store. The print method used is direct thermal, and the size of flash memory is 4 MB (32MB optional). It has three sensors named Paper End, Paper Low, and Cover Open. The physical dimensions are 152mm (width), 202mm (depth), and 150.5mm (height) and its weight is about 1.7 kg. It has inbuilt parallel and USB combo interfaces to ensure flexibility and support Ethernet connectivity for state of art capability. You can also print your logo on your bills for better brand retention by your customers. The width of paper that can be inserted in the printer can be 50mm -82.5 mm and its thickness can be 0.06 ~ 0.09 mm.
It has guillotine-type auto-cutter with an improved life of 1.5 million cuts to provide neat tear in the end of the bills, and also supports Windows 8. RP 3160 has energy star qualification for power efficiency, and drop in paper load feature for effortless paper loading. The drivers that are supported are Windows Printer Driver (8, 7, XP, 2000, 2003, VISTA), WEPOS, Linux, OPOS, and Java POS. The efficiency and speed offered by RP 3160 is to enhance the customer satisfaction. It has reliable print head life of about 160 Km and the mean cycle before failure (MCBF) of about 60,000,000 lines. The cutter method used is full/partial cut, and the barcode fonts supported by RP 3160 are UPC-A, UPC-E, JAN8 (EAN), JAN13 (EAN), CODE 39, CODE 93, CODE 128, ITF, CODABAR, PDF 417, and QR-CODE.