Star TSP100 SERIES User Manual

The Lowest Cost, High Quality POS Printer

THE TSP100 SERIES

Including the latest versions in the TSP100 Series – TSP100 PUSB
– the World’s 1st Entry-Level, Dedicated Powered USB models

Benefit from improved cable management and, more importantly,
being able to cost-effectively use the same UPS on both your POS
station and printer at the same price as a traditional printer.

USB is now the industry’s preferred communication link between a PC and
a printer; so what is the next logical step – to combine the power supply
and interface to produce Powered USB. As a result, Star has developed the
world’s first dedicated entry-level Powered USB printers offering significant
cost advantages over competitor products for all types of retailer.

As usual the POS market is in IT transition with the future looking at
Powered USB terminal and peripherals. The key advantages include now
being able to cost-effectively include UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply)
cover on both the PC and printer so that all transactions will be protected.
The TSP100 PUSB is therefore perfect to replace any single station printer
with a free-of-charge upgrade path when the retailer decides to follow the
industry and use Powered USB POS Terminals at the same price as a
traditional single station printer.

To r eplace a single station serial printer; set the printer up as indicated;
change the interface cable to USB and create a Virtual Serial Port using
the Star wizard included in the TSP100 Printer Properties Page under
“TSP config”. Contact Star for the quick fix to replace a Parallel printer.

Star Performance – Receipts Per Minute

NEW TSP100 Powered USB Printers

Over the last three years Star Micronics has
introduced a variety of new products with such
advanced processing power that the old
fashioned method of measuring print speed has
been made redundant. Simply measuring how

fast the head will print one isolated 4mm line of
output does not take into account the total investment that
has been put into the overall “build”.

Star Micronics will therefore be using the new standard in print
speed measurement called RPM. This will measure the actual
time taken to produce an entire receipt from the moment it is
requested by the software to when it is produced – all in a
laboratory controlled environment. Star’s latest product,
TSP100

futurePRNT, is testament to the vast difference in

throughput speed when using the very latest in printer

technology. Just look at the results in the table below. Users
are no longer limited to using old fashioned, unexciting
resident fonts on their receipts.

The TSP100

futurePRNT is capable of producing the same
number of receipts per minute using modern TrueType fonts
instead.

The printer is supplied with two
port covers for use depending
on configuration chosen.

Star TSP100 futurePRNT

125 25 25rpmV.1.0

Star TSP600

100 21 24rpm

Raster: 20050520

Line: 20050628

Star TSP700II USB / Parallel

250 50 / 44 53rpm

SP712, 742 V1.0

Receipts Per Minute (rpm)

Results obtained printing 80mm wide x 150mm long receipt with Microsoft Windows XP on
PC with CPU 2.3 GHz and 512 MB RAM

The World’s 1st Dedicated Entry-Level Powered USB

TSP113 PUSB – Tear Bar Version • TSP143 PUSB – Autocutter Version

Powered USB
Terminal Use

Non Powered USB

Terminal Use

Print Speed
(mm / sec.)

Driver VersionModel USB I/ F

Graphic with

TrueType Font

Resident

Font

PERIPHERAL

DRIVE CIRCUIT /

CASH DRAWER

USB

Powered USB

HOSIDEN

25

RPM