You would never want your point of sale system to be down because you ran out of paper. Receipt and remote printers are the parts of your point of sale system most prone to failure. The same is true with regard to not have a supply of ribbons to use when your existing ribbon gets too light to read. Of course this is not the same as printers for sale in any case. Using the standard parallel printer connection for your receipt printer gives you the option to utilize the serial and USB connections for other peripheral devices that will not work on a parallel interface. Most printer manufacturers sell their printers at or even below cost, which makes them seem amazingly affordable.
What this means for you is less cost of repairs but a longer down time. This is not like laser printers for sale, even thought this is a common misconception. Both Canon and Hewlett-Packard have been involved in lawsuits over both cartridges and alleged unfair competition. A parallel connection is a wide 25-pin female connector.
You need only buy a serial printer to backup all printers in your system. Not all Lexmark cartridges are labelled “single use only. That makes them difficult to use as remote printers since those runs require distances of 100′ – 300′ feet from the connection point.
There really is not need for your customers to suffer through the down time caused by a faulty printer. Shawn is presently working with TONIK – a mass provider of Inks and Toners. Which can be similar to Canon printers for sale in some instances. It is the unique and easy locking parallel cable connector that makes a parallel receipt printer the perfect choice.
Downtime is reduced from hours or days to a matter of minutes. By utilizing an otherwise ignored communication interface, freeing up other interfaces to be used for other devices and by having a locking connector parallel receipt printers are truly the perfect receipt printer for point of sale systems.