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Troubleshooting Common Issues with Thermal Receipt Printers
As a vital output device for POS systems, thermal printers are essential in various industries such as retail and hospitality, providing fast and reliable document printing, including receipts. Sunany engineers have compiled a list of potential issues you may encounter during daily thermal printer usage to assist you effectively. Check the Power and Connections. The first step is to ensure …
Why is a Button Battery Included in POS Machines?
Incorporated within POS machines is a button battery, serving the purpose of energizing the real-time clock (RTC) and upholding the device’s internal timekeeping and calendar operations. The RTC holds significant importance within the POS machine, as it meticulously records transaction timestamps and dates, playing a pivotal role in maintaining precise records and generating reports. The utilization of the button battery …
Understanding Barcode Technology
Barcodes are essential tools used in retail, inventory management, shipping, and various other applications to efficiently encode and retrieve information about products and items. Let’s delve into the workings of a barcode and its significance in different fields. At the core of a barcode system lies the Universal Product Code (UPC), a unique identifier used primarily in retail. Each UPC …
What Are the Applications of Mini PCs?
Mini PCs are highly versatile devices that find application in a diverse range of scenarios. Presented below are some common scenarios where Mini PCs are widely used: Home Entertainment: Mini PCs serve as excellent media centers for streaming videos, music, and other content. With their small form factor, quiet operation, and seamless connectivity to TVs or monitors, they are well-suited …
Advantages of POS Machines with Fans
While we often discuss the various benefits of fanless designs for POS machines, it is important to recognize that POS machines with fans still offer advantages. When using high-performance processors, a fanless design may struggle to dissipate the significant amount of heat generated by these processors. Effective Heat Dissipation: Fanless designs are more suitable for lower-power processors like Celeron or …
Four Tips of How to Keep Your POS Machine Security
When a POS machine is installed and put into usage, the security of POS is particularly important, because it involves transaction information, member information and store business secrets and so on. The 4 tips of how to keep your POS security are as below: 1. Don’t use default passwords, do use strong passwords Using default passwords makes compromising a system …
Some Tips for Balancing Cash Drawer
As an integral part of POS system, cash drawer is a very important hardware for your business. Sunany gives you some tips below to help keep your drawer in tip-top shape. 1.One person one cash drawer When it comes to your cash drawer, the fewer people who access it, the better. Consider limiting the number of people who use each …
The Features of COM Ports and USB Ports for POS Hardware
In the process of using the POS hardware, customers often have questions about the use of the COM and USB interfaces on the POS machine. This article will answer the features and differences of the two interfaces for you. COM (cluster communication port) is a serial communication port, referred to as a serial port. USB (universal serial bus) is an …
The Differences Between POS Device Standards OPOS and JPOS
POS device standards are very useful in providing an application with a common interface to POS devices such as like receipt printer, barcode scanner, customer display, card reader, etc. What’s OPOS? OPOS: Full name OLE for Retail POS, which is a POS device standard for Microsoft Windows operating systems that was initiated by Microsoft, NCR, Epson, and Fujitsu-ICL and is …
What is Intel Turbo Boost Technology?
When viewing the Sunany Windows POS machine specification, you will see the parameters of the base frequency and burst frequency of the processor. These parameters are not created by Sunany, but from the manufacturer of the processor: Intel. Processors of POS machines don’t always need to run at their maximum frequency. On the contrary, for POS software, most of the …
What is The VESA Standard?
When you want to install the POS machine or touch screen monitor on the wall or on a specific mount, you have to mention the word VESA. The VESA standard is a standard for attaching flat screens, LCD, monitors or televisions to mounts. Depending on the size and weight of the screen, at least four threads or holes are defined. …
Some Guides for Choosing A Pole Display
Pole display is used to show the customer POS system purchase information. The pole display receives data from POS system and presents it for the customer, LCD pole displays can also display advertising messages. There are some important factors to consider when deciding which pole display you should buy. 1. POS Software’s Requirements When selecting a pole display, it is …