What is an Impact Receipt Printer?

Receipt printers are an integral part of a point of sale (POS) system which is used to print payment slips and customer receipts. This is the must-have product for restaurants, retail stores or etc because when you are in a commercial activity you need to print receipts for every moment.

Types of Receipt Printers
There are many types of receipt printers available in the market and people buy these depending on the basis of their features and usage.

Type of receipt printers are;
1. Impact Receipt Printers
2. Thermal Printers
3. Ink-jet Printers

Impact Receipt Printers
Impact or dot matrix receipt printers refers to a class of printers that work by banging a printhead and ink ribbon against the paper to print the relevant text, dot, line, or symbol into the plain paper, which is an old-style technology. They are slower, noisier but known for their reliability and good quality prints, compared to other receipt printers. These printers are most effective in specialized working conditions where low-cost printing is essential.

Types of Impact Receipt Printers
The most common form of Impact Receipt Printers printers are;
1. Dot-matrix printers
2. Daisy-wheel printers
3. Line printers

The advantages of impact printers:
1. The printing costs are the cheapest as compared to other printers because they use multi-pass ribbons.
2. You can get custom sizes print on-page and can print multiple copies at a time.
3. Impact printers can use NCR (no carbon required) paper so that copies are produced instantly as the printing is done.
4. The impact printers are inexpensive and easily available in the market and the running cost is also very low as compared to other printers.

These printers are best suitable for the kitchen due to high temperatures and stickiness environment because other printers use thermal print and in the kitchen environment, the print quality might get affected due to excessive heat.

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