Compare Star Micronics TSP743D Thermal Label Printer to Star Micronics SP500 Matrix Printer

The super fast TSP700 series 2-color thermal printer is packaged in a small footprint and is ideal for POS, credit card, restaurant, bar code, hospitality, and kiosk applications. Businesses can really benefit from the ultra high print speed. The TSP700 series enables you to print receipts with logos and bar codes plus add coupons or rebate certificates while decreasing customer wait time. The TSP700 series can store multiple logos or coupons in the printer, allowing you to print a company logo or coupon with every receipt, even when using a serial printer. To keep the customer moving through the entire transaction quickly, the TSP700 series is equipped with an automatic cutter capable of full and partial cuts. Two color thermal printing capability makes it ideal for corporate branding, highlighting specials, coupons, customer loyalty and restaurant applications.??Additional features include three adjustable paper widths, internal and external paper loading, dual cash drawer driver... Less

The SP500 series offers two models, each with a choice of two communications interfaces, the SP512 tear bar model, and the SP542 auto cutter model. For communications, the SP500 series are available with either parallel (IEEE1284) or serial (RS232C) interfaces. Aesthetic integration is fostered by the availability of two popular case colors: charcoal gray and putty. At over 4 lines/sec (at 42 columns per line) printing speed, the SP500 is among the fastest dot matrix printers currently on the market. Its print head contains the latest in print head technology, providing improved response times and increased reliability over previously available technology. This 9-pin print head, coupled with a stepping motor paper feed, allows the SP500 series to print high-quality graphics and extended characters. The logic seeking mechanism of the SP500 increases the efficiency of the print mechanism, while also aiding in improving print speed. Less