New PoS printer power consumption strategy announced by printer manufacturer

New PoS printer power consumption strategy announced by printer manufacturer

Star Micronics announced that it has launched the world’s first ‘eco’ point-of-sale (PoS) printer dedicated to minimising IT environmental impact within the retail market.

Building on the success of the Star Micronics’ TSP100 futurePRNT Series, it also claimed that the TSP100 ECO was also now the most energy efficient single-station receipt printer launched to date.

The TSP100 ECO was introduced to the market at National Retail Federation (NRF) exhibition, which took place earlier this month in New York in January 2010. And it will be on show to the European market at the retail exhibition, EuroCIS taking place in Düsseldorf, Germany in March.

Targeting efficiency savings and sustainability

As the name would suggest, the TSP100 ECO supposedly has a number of features designed to reduce environmental impact from all angles including a sophisticated power management system, which results in nearly 50% less average power consumption than any existing single station PoS printer available.

Star has calculated the TSP100 ECO power consumption savings over a five-year period to be 36.7kWh; based on 5 years of usage, 24 hours, 7 days a week producing 300 receipts per day.

“The TSP100 ECO is a direct response to worldwide demand to reduce carbon emissions and retailers’ responsibility to reduce energy consumption enabling them to save money and contribute to the battle against global warming”, stated Simon Martin, director and general manager of Star Micronics in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region and India. “Combining futurePRNT’s unique hardware and software advantages with dramatic power saving will empower retailers to embrace this unique cost-effective PoS printer solution.”