POS Printers

Kitchen Printers

Overview

With technology becoming a major part in Kitchens and Restaurants these days, its no surprise that kitchen printers are at the forefront of most food outlet industries.

Two main factors need to be considered when choosing a kitchen printer to produce order receipts (tickets) - speed and legibility of the print. A slow kitchen printer will not only slow down order taking but reduce throughput of customers, therfore it is paramount that a fast kitchen printer like the TSP100 or SP500 are used.

Working in a noisy environment such as the kitchen of a busy hotel or restaurant can be stressful enough without the added hassle of missed orders. When customer orders are sent through to the kitchen from the main restaurant via kitchen printers, it is expected that the printer will just be heard, but often, when the kitchen is busy, and because of the noise generated by kitchen equipment, this is not always the case and orders can be overlooked or even missed.

Both the SP500 dot matrix kitchen printer and the TSP100 thermal kitchen printer can offer the perfect solution - the option of a kitchen buzzer which sounds when an order is printed in the kitchen, drawing attention to the printer. The buzzer simply plugs into the underside of either printer and is driven by the standard Windows drivers which are supplied with these kitchen printers. The buzzer makes a noise which would be audible even in the busiest of kitchens, alerting staff to orders placed in the restaurant.

The SP500 (top right)
The kitchen printers buzzer forms an integral part of the kitchen accessories range designed for this dot matrix printer. Other features included with the kitchen environment in mind are a water resistant cover, fluid channel and integrated guttering to direct spills away from the print mechanism and protective easy to clean covers for both the power supply and interface.

The SP500 is as flexible as you would expect a kitchen printer to be, capable of working when positioned either vertically or horizontally depending upon your kitchen counter space constraints - it even has a wall mounting bracket option to remove it from the counter altogether and a hinged top cover to ensure that the lid is always closed after the paper roll has been changed - ensuring that this printer remains permanently protected from kitchen spills.

The TSP100 (top left)
Offering the same quality and reliability as the SP500, the TSP100 has also been designed with busy kitchen printing in mind. The TSP100 kitchen printer is for those customers who would prefer to use a thermal printer for printing orders in the kitchen environment. It is a low cost, high specification printer which also comes with a wall mounting option - perfect for the kitchen environment where space can be so limited.

As with the SP500, the kitchen buzzer option on the TSP100 is a feature of primary importance when placing this printer in a kitchen environment. The TSP100 also offers the unique feature of being protected against obsolescence by having the ability to upgrade the software easily to meet the needs expected of any kitchen printer.

Summary

So whatever your kitchen application DED Ltd has a printer to suit your order printing needs. Please feel free to look at our extensive range of thermal printers and dot matrix printers. For further information please contact DED sales