Pros
Reduces integration time from hours to minutes.
75% reduction in power consumption and up to 70% reduction of paper consumption
Innovative recyclable packaging
Cons
Text in receipt will fade away in very few days, and delivers less speed while printing receipts.
Star TSP100 ECO is a thermal receipt printer built by Star Micronics at an affordable price with advanced power management circuitry and smart paper management features, and provided with plug and play installation. It integrates the full speed USB interface with selectable serial port emulator. The legacy POS software which is designed only for serial interface can be run through the USB interface. The print method used is direct thermal, and the dimensions of the printer are 132mm (height), 142mm (width), and 204mm (depth). The drivers supported by TSP100 include all standard operating system drivers such as Windows, Linux and Mac and specialty drivers such as OPOS and JPOS. The maximum paper width can be 80 mm (standard) / 58 mm (with paper guide). It requires internal power supply of about 110-240v with 1.8m power cord, and its weight is about1.7kg. It is expected to give you a lifespan of 60 million lines (mean cycle before failure (MCBF)), and print head life of about 100km. You can add images, logos, coupons, merge images, add keywords to trigger coupons/vouchers and also preview your receipt before printing for saving the paper resource.
It can print 28 receipts per minute at a speed of 125 mm/sec with print resolution of about 203dpi (8 dots per mm). It offers you unlimited logo storage capacity. It reduces the space consumption since it can be wall mounted, or horizontally or vertically mounted. The high speed or heavy duty auto cutter has life span of about 1 million cuts. The character sets supported by TSP 100 ECO are ANK 95, 32 Int 128 Graphic plus Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, and it provides extended barcode functionality i.e. 9 versions / PDF 417, Maxicode Option. The wall mount and vertical operation kit are provided with automatic receipt reversal software for increasing your comfort in using the TSP100 ECO receipt printer. It also has standard paper out sensor, cover open sensor and receipt on demand printing option, instant wake up from sleep mode, drop –in and print options for providing easy load facility. The multiple copy support and journal capability feature are supported through futurePRNT software.
Ideal for retail, restaurants, hospital, indoor printing, offices, and convenience stores.