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Not Your Father’s

Printer

Imaging,

graphics

capabilities

expand

BY JULIE RITZER ROSS,

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

ONCE AMONG THE MOST BASIC

pieces of equipment sold by retail VARs, receipt printers are becoming increasingly sophisti- cated. While there will always be a market for models that do little more than generate a simple record of POS transactions, the use of units with a myriad of enhancements clear- ly taking hold.

In perhaps the most significant of recent devel- opments, Epson America has launched the TM- H6000II, the first supermarket POS printer to offer a digital check imaging function. The TM-6000II represents a new class of POS printer in that it com- bines slip, impact and two-color thermal printing with integrated digital imaging technology—the lat- ter integrates electronic check conversion (ECC) and

Epson’s

TM-H600011