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. We are not suggesting that you have a warehouse full of backup printers, but we are suggesting that you can almost eliminate your downtime by having a single backup printer for your business. This is also true for printers for sale. For the most part, scanners, cash drawers and pole displays will not work with a parallel interface. Here are a few interesting facts and figures about ink for printers.
In many cases the local dealer will offer you a loaner program. Which is similar to laser printers for sale most of the time. Both Canon and Hewlett-Packard have been involved in lawsuits over both cartridges and alleged unfair competition. They did so because of the superior speed and reliability of the parallel interface compared to the then standard serial connection.
In most businesses this is totally unacceptable and can cause significant loss of customer service. Those who fail to return them are breaking the law and could face legal action if they refill a cartridge, send it to a third-party refiller or simply do not return it to Lexmark. That makes them difficult to use as remote printers since those runs require distances of 100′ – 300′ feet from the connection point.
Even if you have a mixture of thermal printers and dot matrix printers in your point of sale system, you should consider having a simple dot matrix printer as a backup. Tonik has been selling inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges since 2001. Usually this is the exact opposite of Canon printers for sale. These same connectors are perfect for receipt printers because they lock into place.
Please be sure before you buy that the printer truly will work with multiple interfaces. As always, check with your point of sale software vendor to make sure that they support parallel receipt printers. In a matter of minutes you are back up and running where before you could have been down for days by a low-cost part of your point of sale system that you could have exchanged yourself.