How to pick the best printer for your restaurant?

Make a big difference to your restaurant business, while increasing efficiency of it as both thermal and impact printers are invaluable and do a similar job but they likely to have some differences. Every day you use them without knowing their fundamental difference and forms a vital link between your POS system, kitchen, and bar.

Let’s check out the difference –

The first and foremost difference is the way they print transaction receipts.

Thermal Printers are fast and quiet in working. They don’t use traditional ink or toner, instead of that they use a heat generating thermal head along with a thermal paper which is coated to be responsive to heat. It makes contact with the thermal paper to print the document. They are the most cost-effective option too.

Impact Printers are also being known as dot matrix printers as they are having a print head covered in pins. They use conventional ink ribbon to print the document or to form letters by creating tiny dots on the bond paper. They print in two color variants red and black, while can also print logos and graphics.

After a detailed discussion over their differences, its time to know which is better, thermal or impact printer?

Its all depends on how and where you will be using the printer.

If your business needs printing customer receipts and credit card transaction slips, then the thermal printer may be the best choice for you. Thermal printers are about seven times quicker and much quieter than impact printers. But if you are using the printer to get order details for your kitchen staff, then impact printer would be a better option. They are comparatively slower and noisier.

The second factor can be the price while choosing the best printer for your business because sometimes the capability you are seeking may not worth your financial outlay.

Before making any purchase, check what interface your system has, check your POS system, and make sure that they are compatible while having enough spaceports to connect them.

The third factor can be the brands and models you are looking for your system. We stock high quality and reliable brands with a range of thermal and impact printers both to work with your POS system, and its features will suit your requirements. We have Epson, Zebra and Honeywell, and many more to what you are looking forward to.

We recommend you to buy EpsonTM-T88V Receipt Printer and EpsonTM-M30 Thermal Receipt Printer to make a considerable turnover per year.