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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. The same is true with regard to not have a supply of ribbons to use when your existing ribbon gets too light to read. This is also true for printers. As long as computers still have parallel printer connections, parallel receipt printers will be a smart choice for business owners. The real profit for printer makers, however, lies in the sale of printer cartridges.

What this means for you is less cost of repairs but a longer down time. Which is similar to HP printers for sale most of the time. Virtually every major printer manufacturer has been involved in lawsuits regarding the sale and use of re-manufactured inkjet or laser printer ink cartridges.

For this reason, if you only bought a single backup printer for a point of sale system that had both thermal and dot matrix printers it would probably be a dot matrix printer. In 2005, Lexmark won a suit that gives the company the authority under patent and contract law to enforce the “single use only” policy that’s written on the boxes in which their cartridges are packaged. The connectors at each end of a parallel cable are very wide and impossible to run through conduit without cutting off the ends.

Other than that you should not have any major problems exchanging a dot matrix for thermal at the point of sale. Shawn is presently working with TONIK – a mass provider of Inks and Toners. Usually this is the exact opposite of cheap printers for sale. These same connectors are perfect for receipt printers because they lock into place.

Now the situation is not as critical and your service provider can either dispatch a technician to gather your broken printer and send it off for service.Not all point of sale software uses parallel 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.