Over the last three years Star Micronics has
introduced a variety of new products with such
advanced processing power that the old
fashioned method of measuring print speed has
been made redundant. Simply measuring how
fast the head will print one isolated mm of output
does not take into account the total investment that has been
put into the overall “build”.
Normally we would not directly target a competitor’s product,
but Star feels it is necessary to show that a new method of
measuring output speed is now required. Star will therefore be
using the established standard in print speed measurement
called
RPM (Receipts Per Minute). This will measure the actual
time taken to produce an entire receipt from the moment it is
requested by the
software to when
it is produced – all in
a laborator
y controlled
environment.
Star’s latest product,
TSP100
futurePRNT, is
testament to the vast
differ
ence in thr
oughput
speed when using the
very latest in printer
technology.
Comparison with the other company printers
7
Print Speed vs Throughput
Performance Results
80mm wide x 150mm long r
eceipt (Win XP 2002 Service Pack 2 / Inte
l
®
, Cor
e
™
2 CPU 6600 @ 2.4GHz / 2.4 Ghz, RAM 2.01GB
Date: 25/07/08 14.46
Your server: Jane
1 x Peroni
€4.50
1 x Coke
€4.25
1 x F
our Seasons Pizza
€14.00
1 x Siciliana Pizza
€14.00
1 x Green Salad
€8.00
1 x Caesar Salad
€8.50
Sub Total:
€53.75
T
otal:
€53.75
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c
hant ID
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A
uthorisation Code
034765
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isa Sale
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Date: 25/07/08 14.46
Y
our server: Jane
1
x Peroni
€4.50
1
x
Coke
€4.25
1
x
Four
Seasons Pizza
€14.50
1
x Siciliana Pizza
€1
4.00
1
x Green Salad
€8
.00
1
x
Caesar
Salad
€8.50
Sub Total:
€53.75
T
otal:
€5
3.75
Card Number
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2112
Expiry Date 05/09
Merchant ID 5150345
Authorisation
C
ode
034765
Visa
Sale
€53.75
Star Pizzas
Star has produced a dedicated SDK (Modular
Software Developers Kit) with a wide range of
tools available, allowing the system designer to
take advantage of all the TSP100’s software and
hardware features e.g auto text reversal for
vertical / wall mounted use. This feature can
literally be dragged and dropped into the developer’s software.
PRE-INSTALLATION SET-UP TOOL – with Easy driver
installation for all major platforms with CD-ROM supplied or
u
sing the Star designed architecture for fast modifications
when needed. All settings can be stored on the PC and
“mirrored” across other TSP100 printers with a simple export
configuration feature for mass system installations.
No printer
pre-hardware configuration is needed.
The unique Printer
Serial Number Identifier will also be ideal for remote polling for
hardware audits, warranty / servicing issues etc.
“DRAG & DROP” SOFTWARE FEATURE TOOL
Active X Components for Star Printer Feature Inclusion into
OEM Software.
Star TSP100 System Builder Tools
Printer Driver
Resolution Print Speed RPM (USB)
(dpi) (mm /sec) with graphics
STAR
TSP100U V.1.0 (USB) 203 125 22
TSP100GT V.1.0 (GT) 203 250 45
TSP650 V.1.0.0 203 150 30
TSP70
0
II
Advance Raster / Advance Line 203 250
48
O
thers
Printer A
_
180
150
6
Printer B
_
180
200 42
Just look at the results in the table below. Users are no longer
limited to using old fashioned, unexciting resident fonts on
their receipts. The TSP100
futurePRNT is capable of producing
the same number of receipts per minute using modern
TrueType fonts instead.
Here are two receipts showing the use of resident fonts and
the new impr
oved version using T
r
ueType fonts and graphics.
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