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Upgrade Your POS Hardware with Star
With over 30 years’ experience providing POS hardware to retail and hospitality, Star is widely acknowledged as the leading hardware innovator in the move from traditional POS terminals to tablet POS featuring lower cost hardware that can be mobile or fixed and easily upgradable as a business grows. With software that is flexible, low cost and progressively scalable according to individual business needs, tablet POS provides the ideal solution for venues of all sizes.
Unique Star SteadyLAN™ Technology for Reliable Connectivity With iOS Devices
One of the potential obstacles to tablet POS can be unreliable or intermittent WiFi connectivity, especially in large- scale venues. To overcome this, Star has developed its unique SteadyLAN™ technology that provides direct cabled control of the printer and attached peripherals as well as Ethernet provision to iOS devices from the wired Ethernet port of the printer.
By simply connecting the iPad to the Star mC-Print™ printer (mCP21LB, mCP31L or mCP31LB) via the standard Apple Lightning cable, or USB-C for iPad Pro, and connecting the printer to the Internet via a wired LAN connection, the iPad is able to connect to the Internet without WiFi communication. Furthermore, the iPad can communicate with the printer via the Lightning cable and the printer will also charge the iPad.
mC-Print SteadyLAN technology is ideal for both fixed station and hybrid tablet POS in which the tablet can be docked to charge and receive reliable network access, but undocked when required with uninterrupted operation. If the tablet is undocked from the printer then it will simply start using WiFi, if
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available. Connecting to the printer is still possible on the same IP address and will continue seamlessly. Bluetooth can also be used to control the printer if a Bluetooth printer model is installed.
Compact and Stylish mC-Print Series for Tablet and Cloud- Based POS
The compact and stylish mC-Print series features 58mm and 80mm print width models with the unique functionality of up to 5 hardware and software interfaces. These include traditional and innovative Cloud technologies able to control select USB connected peripherals – all at a much lower cost than previously available on the market. mC-Print meets the needs of an omni-channel environment by providing a future-proof solution for a seamless transition from traditional to tablet and Cloud-based POS.
Ideal for applications including online ordering, event ticketing etc,
Star’s CloudPRNT™ technology for remote PC-free printing of receipts and tickets directly from a web server to connected Star mC-Print2 or mC-Print3 printers is a low cost and versatile Cloud printing solution.
In fact, the entire mC-Print series is Cloud-ready including the entry-level, lowest cost 58mm mCP20 with LAN and USB interfaces. Other models in the range offer additional Bluetooth connectivity, direct communication and charging with Apple iOS devices via the Apple supplied Lightning cable as well as 2 USB host ports for local or cloud-based peripheral control of Star’s SCD222 customer display and a range of 1D and 2D barcode scanners or RFID devices etc.
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