Zebra QLn Series mobile printer

Zebra's QL™ family of direct thermal mobile printers has built a highly satisfied following through its proven drop-resistant durability; user-friendly, productivity-boosting features; and easy integration. Zebra's third generation of QL printers, the QLn ™ series—including the QLn320 ™ for 3-inch-wide printing—extends these QL-platform benefits to the "nth" power. www.zebra.com

Blue Bamboo portable printer

The latest bluetooth portable thermal printer from Blue Bamboo is now available from Paragon Omega. Prints 2" width thermal printout , it is also available with rubber boot and options like magnetic swipe reader. Works with VB and Java programming. For more info, please contact Karen via karen@pdaprinter.com.my

MPSJ

I saw MPSJ officers using Extech printers for ticket summons recently. Truly a change compare to handwritten summons years back... Now that shows we truly are Asia.

Barcode printer

I was testing the Sato model CL408e barcode printer in the office and print speed was excellent, image quality is good, the software was OK.

New Printer from Intermec

Well, Intermec has came out with the new portable printer and guess what? What struck me was it look exactly like Extech printer. Thermal direct printing with Bluetooth functions...what can i say? www.intermec.com for more information.

Thermal Printers

Thermal Bluetooth receipt printers have become the standard offering on the majority of point of sale systems today. Especially in the restaurant industry it is hard to find a point of sale system that does not have a thermal receipt printer. For the most part thermal receipt printers cost more. Here are 5 reasons why a thermal receipt printer is superior to a dot matrix receipt printer.

1. Speed
The average Dot matrix printer will print around 3 lines per second while Thermal printers average in excess of 20 lines per second.

2. Print Quality
Thermal receipt printers have a much better image and prints sharp quality text and especially when printing logos. Just go and line up at any POS Malaysia offices and get a sample queue receipt.

3. Connectivity
Thermal receipt printers have this options to communicate wireless with PDA through Bluetooth or WiFi. This makes it very convenient as no more messy wires dangling everywhere.

4. Reliability
MTBF stands for Mean Time Between Failure. This is the standard for measuring the average time between failure for any device. In the case of printers it is either the average number of lines printed before a failure occurs or the average feet of paper that can be printed before a failure occurs. In either case, the thermal receipt printers win across the board. There are some thermal receipt printers that are better than others, but dot matrix printers simply do not have the staying power of a thermal printer. This is due to fewer moving parts on a thermal printer and the fact that dot heads break due to the dot pins snagging on ribbons or are damaged when coins are dropped into the printer mechanism.

5. Cost of Ownership
This goes beyond simply the cost of supplies. This analysis should also include downtime and the cost of repairs. Thermal paper does cost more than dot matrix paper. However, the added cost of ribbons for the dot matrix printer sends the cost of ownership for supplies higher for the dot matrix receipt printer. When you add in the cost of repairs and the more frequent repairs for the dot matrix receipt printers the cost of ownership clearly swings in favor of thermal receipt printers.

Introduction

Hi Everyone. That 's me in the photo. Believe me, my inspiration came from none other than Kevin Benedict of Mobiledataforce. Established in 2004, Paragon Omega Sdn Bhd, a local outfit has grown from a portable printer hardware supplier to becoming one-stop-solution provider to our system integrator partners in supplying end-to-end products for their mobile solutions. The products we offer from portable thermal printers and mobile computers (Psion Teklogix, HP, Extech, SPRT, Datecs, Citizen ).