Welcome to the Star Software Update, the regular series of blog updates where Star’s Integration Team informs you about the latest important Star Micronics software updates.
In this edition:
mC-Print Firmware Update (v3.0) via the mC-Print Utility App (v1.5.0). HID device support, new power and feed switch settings, additional cloud features and settings, and more
Read on to learn what this month’s update entails.
Release Date:
This update was released on May 29, 2020.
What is Included in the Update?
The recent mC-Print firmware update (v3.0), which can be accessed by updating the mC-Print Utility App to mC-Print Utility iOS/Android v1.5.0, works with both the mC-Print2 and mC-Print3 and includes several changes:
HID Support: Included in this update is added support for HID keyboard device class USB devices. This means that the mC-Print can now support a large variety of keyboards, scanners, and more.
New Power and Feed Switch Settings: Another addition included in the update is the new ability to enable/disable the power switch and the feed switch for applications where the printer will not be attended, such as in a self-service kiosk.
Additional Cipher Suites: Additional cipher suites have been added as a part of this update. These cipher suites are used with CloudPRNT to accommodate the increasingly advanced security needs of cloud communication.
New CloudPRNT Settings: Last but not least, the update also includes the added ability for CloudPRNT settings to be configured by command from an application.
Next Steps
The above features can be accessed by updating the printer’s firmware to v3.0, which you can do via the updated mC-Print Utility App. The newest version of the mC-Print Utility App, mC-Print Utility iOS/Android v1.5.0, is available for download and has been released on the App Store for iOS and the Play Store for Android.
NRFis a wonderful show for multiple reasons – it’s where over 40,000 retail industry professionals gather to share ideas, build partnerships, and experience the year’s latest technology. Speaking of partnerships, one of Star’s favorite reasons for being at Retail’s Big Show is the dedicated time we give to catching up with our many retail software partners.
In today’s blog post, discover how one of Star’s POS software partners, eMobilePOS, is expanding mobile payments into even more verticals this year. Learn more about our partnership in the below video interview filmed at NRF 2020 and stay tuned for even more partnership interviews in our upcoming Star Spotlight NRF 2020 Edition blog posts.
What Does eMobilePOS Do?
e-Nabler, the company behind eMobilePOS, is a pioneer and leader in mobile POS and cloud-based software-as-a-service. The full-feature mobile POS and inventory management software fits all the functionality of a traditional POS workstation into a Android, Apple iOS, or Windows tablet or smartphone.
e-Nabler was founded by Joel Vazquez in 2001 and the company was one of the first to offer a full-featured mobile POS solution for Windows Mobile. In 2010, the application became available on iTunes as the first complete mobile POS app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Today, the eMobilePOS software is available for Android, Apple iOS, and Windows tablets and smartphones. The company is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico with a sales office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
eMobilePOS seamlessly integrates with leading accounting, POS and ERP systems such as QuickBooks, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics RMS, Retail Pro and SAP, making sure that information is always up to date.
With hundreds of satisfied customers and thousands of users, eMobilePOS is a thoroughly tested and hardened solution, providing reliability and plug’n’play installation. Customers include everything from brick and mortar stores, mobile retailers and restaurants to field service organizations and wholesale distribution companies. To date, eMobilePOS has processed more than 3 billion sales transactions.
Mobile POS: eMobilePOS’s unique mobile POS solution has the ability to transform Android, Apple iOS, and Windows tablets and phones into feature-packed POS devices which include businesses’ favorite legacy POS components, but in a flexible and stylish package (and with an affordable price). Features include: EMV chip, PIN, check, gift card, and NFC-based payment acceptance; interoperability with QuickBooks, SAGE, and more software; out-of-the-box certified peripherals; and more.
Tablet POS: The eMobile POS tablet POS solution for iOS and Android – which can be a standalone solution or be integrated with a business’s favorite software – allows businesses to track sales in real-time, manage loyalty programs, customize the interface with branding, and more, all at an affordable cloud-based subscription price.
iPad Kiosk: Self-service is immensely popular, and it’s not going away anytime soon. eMobilePOS allows businesses to easily take advantage of all the benefits self-service has to offer by transforming an iPad into an easy-to-use interactive kiosk. With an intuitive user experience, customers can easily place and customize orders, select add-on products, apply coupons, earn or redeem loyalty rewards, and pay for their order.
What’s New with eMobilePOS in 2020?
One exciting piece of news from eMobilePOS this year is the addition of a mass transit POS application to their solution lineup. This new solution serves mass transit operators, as well as smaller operators like ambulances, taxis, ferries, buses, and commuter rail. eMobilePOS’s solution supports passengers on board who would like to pay with any kind of payment method, including credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Receipts for tickets are printed on Star mobile printers, with QR codes for conductors to validate.
Compact and sleek design Printer – cash drawer – scanner – device stand Compatible with iOS, Android, and Windows Two cash drawer options: vertical bill (4 bill and 6 or 8 adjustable coin slots) and flat bill (4 bill and 4 or 6 adjustable coin slots)
High reliability and performance High-speed printing (300mm/s) Swappable interfaces: serial, parallel, USB, LAN Bluetooth and AirPrint connectivity available
2-inch portable printer with compact, lightweight design Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR / USB 2.0 full speed Barcode/graphics printing supported Magnetic stripe reader
Legal for trade, NTEP-certified Bluetooth, Serial, USB Wired and battery-operated power supply Measures substances up to 18lb
Stay tuned for our upcoming NRF 2020 Star Spotlights, coming soon. In the meantime, learn more about how Star and our partners have teamed up to provide solutions by browsing our Success Stories.
We’re proud to announce that payments and point of sale (POS) company Square has added iOS support for our TSP654SK label printer. This new release will add even more functionality to Square’s POS solution for cafes and quick service restaurants (QSRs).
With Square’s addition of label printer support to their Point of Sale for the first time, businesses can say goodbye to writing down individual item modifiers and, instead, automatically print single item tickets to keep orders moving quickly. The support of Star’s TSP654SK will also help to reduce human error by eliminating hand written orders while printing professional, clean, and easy-to-read labels.
Star Micronics TSP654SK linerless label printer allows for easily repositionable thermal labels that can stick to virtually any surface, and can be removed and reapplied, leaving behind no residue. The labels can stay with and track an order through the entire preparation process, improving takeout order accuracy and eliminating the cost of additional print-outs.
At Star, we take great pride in our partnership with Square and we are excited to provide more robust solutions for their sellers, giving them the ability to more accurately fulfill and track orders using a simple labeling solution.
Benefits of Linerless Labels
Since linerless labels do not use a silicone liner, they eliminate the negative environmental impact of alternative labels and help cut back on in-house waste, thus continuing Star Micronics’ Global Green Initiative which encompasses manufacturing products that provide minimal impact on our environment.
Linerless labels are a welcomed addition for QSR applications including fulfilling takeout and delivery orders. The labels can be used for custom items within an order or the entire order by attaching it to the order container. Linerless labels can stay with and track an order through the entire preparation process, improving order accuracy and a business’s bottom line.
About the Star Label PrinterThe TSP654SK is the ideal linerless label printer! Explore some of its features below:
Durable steel construction 13” x 13” and 16” x 16” sizes Black or white coated finish Cash till options: 4 bill / 5 coin, 3 bill / 5 coin for Canadian currency
Compact and sleek design Printer – cash drawer – scanner – device stand Compatible with iOS, Android, and Windows Two cash drawer options: vertical bill (4 bill and 6 or 8 adjustable coin slots) and flat bill (4 bill and 4 or 6 adjustable coin slots)
High-speed printing (250mm/s) Easy setup across all models Lightning connection for simultaneous charging and data transfer Compatible with Star Micronics Cloud Services
Want to Take a Closer Look at the New Star Label Printer?
It can be tough to find truly Apple-compatible hardware for point of sale use. Star Micronics offers the largest range of Apple compatible printing products and Apple certified POS hardware. Developer friendly, Star was the first provider of SDK for iOS and is currently the only provider that offers iOS development support for scales, cash drawers, and kiosk printers. Help your customers future-proof their Apple POS solutions with Star Micronics.
NRFis a wonderful show for multiple reasons – it’s where over 40,000 retail industry professionals gather to share ideas, build partnerships, and experience the year’s latest technology. Speaking of partnerships, one of Star’s favorite reasons for being at Retail’s Big Show is the dedicated time we give to catching up with our many retail software partners.
In today’s blog post, discover what one of Star’s POS software partners, Tulip, is doing in terms of modern retail this year. Learn more about our partnership in the below video interview filmed at NRF 2020 and stay tuned for even more partnership interviews in our upcoming Star Spotlight NRF 2020 Edition blog posts.
What Does Tulip Do?
Tulip is the global leader in mobile retail technology solutions. Partnered with Apple and Salesforce, Tulip’s mission is to harness the power of the world’s most advanced technology to deliver simple-to-use mobile applications that enable all aspects of the retail experience from Clienteling and Assisted Selling to Point of Sale. Only Tulip enables the omnichannel experience via a scalable and extensible technology platform designed around the retail associate.
Tulip was founded in 2013 by Ali Asaria and a team of mobile commerce experts with the vision to reinvent retail and shape the future in-store shopping experience. Today, Tulip powers the in-store experience for our clients and partners around the globe.
Tulip provides a SaaS-based mobile platform to empower retailers and better connect customer and store associate experiences.
Tulip’s mission is to empower next generation retail associates with world-class mobile-first, cloud-first enterprise software that modernizes and transforms the in-store experience.
In this day and age, shopping needs to be personalized. With Tulip’s clienteling capabilities, users can:
Create and access detailed customer profiles
View a customer’s wish list and previously viewed items
Manage a VIP customer client book
Track birthdays and anniversaries
Schedule one-on-one follow-ups and marketing campaigns with customers
And more!
Checkout Nova
This mobile POS solution allows retailers to seamlessly complete transactions from anywhere in the store. It’s not just about payments though: Checkout Nova can also access in-store and online inventory, support discounts, coupons, and loyalty points, and mix in-store and online products into one order.
Assisted Selling
Retail associates become trusted advisors when they use Tulip’s assisted selling features like mobile omnichannel catalog access, real-time product ratings and reviews and social media activity, advanced searching capabilities, and more.
Runner
Almost everyone has experienced needing some extra help locating an item in a store, only to be left alone for minutes as the store associate completes the request. With Tulip’s Runner, employees can request items from other coworkers real-time on a mobile device (even a smart watch) and never leave the customer waiting.
What’s New with Tulip in 2020?
In 2020, mobility is setting Tulip apart in the retail space. Tulip has worked with some of the world’s largest retailers in powering transactions from anywhere on the sales floor. Associates can build a basket, take a full transaction, look up orders, complete returns, and more – all on the go, without customers lining up and waiting in a queue.
High-speed printing (250mm/s) Easy setup across all models Lightning connection for simultaneous charging and data transfer Compatible with Star Micronics Cloud Services
Stay tuned for our upcoming NRF 2020 Star Spotlights, coming soon. In the meantime, learn more about how Star and our partners have teamed up to provide solutions by browsing our Success Stories.
NRFis a wonderful show for multiple reasons – it’s where over 40,000 retail industry professionals gather to share ideas, build partnerships, and experience the year’s latest technology. Speaking of partnerships, one of Star’s favorite reasons for being at Retail’s Big Show is the dedicated time we give to catching up with our many retail software partners.
In today’s blog post, discover what one of Star’s valued software partners, Springboard Retail, is up to this year. Learn more about our partnership in the below video interview filmed at NRF 2020 and stay tuned for even more partnership interviews in our upcoming Star Spotlight NRF 2020 Edition blog posts.
What Does Springboard Retail Do?
“It all began out of necessity. Gordon Russell’s Boston-based chain of specialty retail stores had a problem. He needed a POS system that would be comprehensive enough to manage his current business, while also driving future growth. Gordon tried plenty of available retail point of sale systems, but none of them provided the intuitive yet flexible structure his retail teams needed to succeed.
So, Gordon and co-founder, Jay Stotz, put their heads together. They focused on developing a modern, cloud-based POS system designed to support a growing multi-channel, multi-site retail enterprise with features that brought clarity and resilience for the future. Reporting was key. With a multitude of data points, they ensured that their point of sale was able to combine relevant data in any way the retailer envisions and that the software was responsive, agile and easy-to-use. In fact, the results of their efforts were so successful that the team had to share it with other retailers. Springboard Retail was born.
Since our official launch in November, 2013, Springboard Retail has helped our customers grow across their locations and channels—processing over $2B of retail sales at over 1,000 sites across North America. The team continues to focus on providing exceptional value to our customers. We take our customer’s success personally because we’ve walked in your shoes and understand that even the smallest detail, is critical.”
Point of Sale: Cloud-based and user-friendly, Springboard Retail’s POS is highly scalable and includes features like quick order lookup, easy customer creation, split payments, simple returns, sales rep tracking, and more.
Order Management: Springboard Retail’s order management makes it easy to access inventory in real-time and place orders across multiple store locations, online, and in the warehouse. The order management also includes fulfillment alerts and easy order splitting to multiple fulfillment points.
Inventory Management: Your inventory is key. With features like partial and full inventory counts, transfer management, custom reasons codes for adjustments, and more, Springboard Retail’s inventory management keeps retailers running smoothly.
Customer Management: CRM and POS don’t have to be separate. Springboard Retail’s included CRM features a QuickView customer dashboard, unlimited custom fields, custom reports for segment marketing, and integrations with top loyalty/marketing providers.
Purchasing and Receiving: Retail buying is made easy with Springboard Retail’s ability to create barcode labels directly from a PO, easily process returns to vendors, smoothly enter size runs with an item grid feature, and more.
Metrics and Reporting: Data is imperative! Enjoy real-time data, custom field and reports, user-based permissions, CSV/PDF/URL sharing and exporting, and data comparison with Springboard Retail.
Traffic and Conversions: Gone are the days of manually tracking retail traffic. With Springboard Retail’s POS, track foot traffic electronically, review real-time traffic data, and more – even if you have multiple stores.
What Sets Springboard Retail Apart?
Springboard Retail focuses specifically on larger-footprint specialty retailers, with two to 200 store locations. Additionally, Springboard Retail is a browser-based system and cross-platform, meaning it has customers that use Mac, PC, and iPad POS, and is able to deliver a consistent, streamlined experience to all of those customers with its POS products.
What Star Products Does Springboard Retail Integrate?
High-speed printing (250mm/s) Easy setup across all models Lightning connection for simultaneous charging and data transfer Compatible with Star Micronics Cloud Services
2-inch portable printer with compact, lightweight design Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR / USB 2.0 full speed Barcode/graphics printing supported Magnetic stripe reader
Black mark label support Vertically mountable Double resolution mode to increase graphic sharpness Bluetooth, CloudPRNT, WebPRNT, Serial, Parallel, USB, LAN
Stay tuned for our upcoming NRF 2020 Star Spotlights, coming soon. In the meantime, learn more about how Star and our partners have teamed up to provide solutions by browsing our Success Stories.
NRF is a wonderful show for multiple reasons – it’s where over 40,000 retail industry professionals gather to share ideas, build partnerships, and experience the year’s latest technology. Speaking of partnerships, one of Star’s favorite reasons for being at Retail’s Big Show is the dedicated time we give to catching up with our many retail software partners.
In today’s blog post, we will explore what one our valued partners, Erply, is up to in 2020, and how they are working with Star. Learn more about our partnership in the below video interview filmed at NRF 2020 and stay tuned for even more partnership interviews in our upcoming Star Spotlight NRF 2020 Edition blog posts.
What Does Erply Do?
Erply started as an award-winning Seedcamp entry in 2009 –hence its name, ERPly!– and was officially founded in 2010. Since its establishment, Erply was designed to create B2B customizations for small to medium-sized businesses, resulting in a highly in-depth inventory management platform.
Today Erply has grown into a successful company that processes billions of annual transactions and supports over 100,000 stores across the globe in over 15 different languages.
Erply’s cloud-based, full-featured point of sale solution has helped us become a recognized leader in the retail POS space. Erply POS serves retailers large and small, and is well-known for its:
Comprehensive POS features
World-class API
Highly secure servers
Personable customer support
Mobile applications
Flexibility has always been a key feature of Erply, and its expertise in creating highly customized solutions comes from its team of veteran developers who have years of experience building specialized business solutions.
Designed for enterprise retail, retail franchise, and more, Erply’s products can be grouped into several categories:
Point of sale: Erply’s cloud-based POS is powerful, easy-to-use, and works online and offline. Features include employee timeclock, layaway sales, cash in or out, in-store pickup orders, recent sale lookup, stock and price lookup, returns and refunds, and more.
Inventory management: For large and small businesses alike, Erply’s inventory management solutions include product information management (PMI), inventory transfers, stocktaking, matrix products, supplier management, stock replenishment reports, and more.
CRM: The power is in the customer data. Erply’s retail CRM has what it takes for retailers to develop long-term customer relationships, and includes customer information, a loyalty program, and customer grouping.
Multi-store management: Perfect for chains, Erply’s multi-store management solutions help retailers set up store locations, manage pricing, create promotions, manage employees, track store activity, and more.
Sales management: The key to retail success lies in well-managed sales data. Erply’s back office technology allows retailers to easily create sales quotes and orders, manage order fulfillment, and handle invoicing and payments workflows.
Reporting: Erply provides its customers with fully customizable reports, for sales, inventory, and more.
API: Erply’s API is simple to use, and allows businesses to easily integrate with other applications, creating a true omnichannel retail experience.
What’s New with Erply in 2020?
One of the biggest differentiators for Erply in 2020 is its ability to integrate with customers’ existing tech stacks, whether it’s a CRM, ERP, or an e-commerce platform. This integration ability ensures Erply can provide a true all-in-one system, making retail operations much easier and more efficient.
What Star Products Does Erply Integrate?
Erply currently integrates the Star Micronics TSP143III, mPOP™, SM-S230i, and mC-Print2.
High-speed printing (250mm/s) Easy setup across all models Lightning connection for simultaneous charging and data transfer Compatible with Star Micronics Cloud Services
Compact and sleek design Printer – cash drawer – scanner – device stand Compatible with iOS, Android, and Windows Two cash drawer options: vertical bill (4 bill and 6 or 8 adjustable coin slots) and flat bill (4 bill and 4 or 6 adjustable coin slots)
2-inch portable printer with compact, lightweight design Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR / USB 2.0 full speed Barcode/graphics printing supported Magnetic stripe reader
Stay tuned for our upcoming NRF 2020 Star Spotlights, coming soon. In the meantime, learn more about how Star and our partners have teamed up to provide solutions by browsing our Success Stories.
Welcome to the Star Software Update, the regular series of blog updates where Star’s Integration Team informs you about the latest important Star Micronics software updates.
In this edition:
A New mC-Print Series Firmware Update. mC-Print2 v2.4 and mC-Print3 v2.4, respectively
Read on to learn what this month’s update entails.
Release Date:
This firmware update was released on January 31, 2020.
What is Included in the Update?
Simply put, this new firmware update allows you to more reliably share a printer between an online ordering service using CloudPRNT and a POS using Star’s SDK/driver.
In today’s restaurant and retail environments it is becoming less and less common to have all services through one provider and much more common to have many different vendors providing different services such as point of sale, online ordering, etc. This firmware update makes sharing a printer between different services using different Star print technologies more reliable, resulting in fewer errors and missed print jobs.
Next Steps
You can update your firmware in the mC-Print Utility, under the “Firmware Update” function.
It’s 2020 and it should come as no surprise that point of sale (POS) technology is advancing rapidly. But which POS trends are predicted to be hot this year?
Cloud POS: According to Finances Online, the cloud POS market penetration rate is expected to hit 44% this year, up from 35% in 2018 and 39% in 2019.
Self-Service: In 2019, the self-service market was valued at $28 billion USD, and by 2025 it’s expected to reach $68 billion USD. Needless to say, self-service kiosks will be popping up left and right this year.
Mobile Payments: It’s estimated that by the end of 2020, nearly 1 in every 2 dollars spent online will come from purchase made using mobile devices. That’s a lot of mobile payments!
So, what’s Star doing to keep up with these emerging trends? Read on to discover the best new Star technology this year.
SteadyLAN®
The foundation of each of the above POS trends is a stable connection. For cloud POS to reliably operate, a strong network connection must be present. A self-service kiosk that’s out of order is a nuisance to customers and a waste of money to business owners. Mobile payments don’t exist without a solid connection.
To greatly strengthen network connection in iPad POS, Star is proud to introduce SteadyLAN®. This unique, patent-pending new Star technology makes unstable Wi-Fi signals a thing of the past. Available on certain mC-Print models and designed for iOS, Android, and Windows devices provides direct cabled control of the printer and attached peripherals, as well as Ethernet provision to the tablet, from the wired Ethernet port of the printer.
For locations where Wi-Fi connectivity is not possible or unreliable, this new technology is a world-first, providing the stability of a cabled LAN connection for tablet POS systems. By connecting the SteadyLAN-compatible printer to the Internet via wired LAN and connecting the printer and a tablet with a Lightning-USB or USB-C® cable, the device can use the Internet without Wi-Fi communication. At the same time, the tablet can communicate with the printer via USB or LAN and can be charged from the printer.
Kiosk printers aren’t a new edition to Star in 2020 – we have been offering a robust lineup of self-service printing options for quite some time – but what is new and hot this year are our second generation of compact SK1 kiosk printers.
The new kiosk printers, the SK1-211 and the SK1-311, ship standard with StarPRNT emulation, which will allow software developers to take advantage of the full stack of Star Micronics technology, such as the StarPRNT SDKs and Star’s powerful line of drivers. Software developers that have already integrated Star products can now easily swap or extend their applications from a desktop printer to a kiosk printer.
When used with Windows drivers, StarPRNT emulation also enables developers to take advantage of PromoPRNT, Star Micronics’ cloud-based marketing tool which allows for custom-designed promotions to print on the bottom of receipts.
These new kiosk printers are exciting for a few reasons: Not only are these new products faster and more reliable, the addition of the modern StarPRNT emulation will allow easy integration of kiosk solutions into any environment already featuring Star printers.
You may already recognize our sleek, all-in-one mobile point of purchase, the mPOP. But did you know that this year we have released a new and improved mPOP for SMB retail, the mPOP Flat Bill?
The new mPOP with Flat Bill cash management stacks the till, providing a total of 4 slots for bills, and 4 or 6 adjustable spaces for coins.The individual tills offer 2Bill-2Coin slots, with the top till easily sliding back to expose the bottom till section.
Just like the original mPOP, the mPOP Flat Bill also features:
Bluetooth and USB connectivity
Compatibility with any iOS, Android, or Windows device
Easy “drop-in and print” paper loading and cable management
Compatibility with Star peripherals ( 1D barcode scanner, 2D imager, digital customer-facing display)
A new decade calls for business owners of all kinds to make the switch to a sleek, modern POS, and our mUnite stands make that easier than ever.
Designed to accompany the mC-Print3, mPOP, and TSP143/TSP654II, the mUnite tablet POS stands are the perfect solution for businesses on the hunt for a clean POS which frees up valuable counterspace.
With clean cable management and a sleek, unified design, mUnite stands bundles all devices together into one visually cohesive solution, and are:
Built of durable steel
Compatible with any tablet manufacturer (universal VESA mounting)
Easy to set up
Available in black or white to match existing POS systems
The new Star technology featured in this blog post is just a portion of Star’s many offerings. To learn more about our full product lineup and see how our various technologies can be bundled into one cohesive, streamlined solution, explore our Product Catalog.
Welcome to the Star Software Update, the regular series of blog updates where Star’s Integration Team informs you about the latest important Star Micronics software updates.
In this edition:
Introducing SteadyLAN®! An industry-first solution for iPad POS
Read on to learn what this month’s update entails.
Release Date:
SteadyLAN was released to the public on January 13, 2020.
What is SteadyLAN?
SteadyLAN is a patent-pending technology available on certain mC-Print Series printers. It provides wired Ethernet service to iOS, Android, and Windows devices connected to a networked printer via the Lightning or USB-C® cable..
Star’s unique SteadyLAN technology makes unstable Wi-Fi signals a thing of the past! SteadyLAN, available on certain mC-Print models and designed for iOS, Android, and Windows devices provides direct cabled control of the printer and attached peripherals, as well as Ethernet provision to the tablet, from the wired Ethernet port of the printer.
For locations where Wi-Fi connectivity is not possible or unreliable, this new technology is a world-first, providing the stability of a cabled LAN connection for tablet POS systems. By connecting the SteadyLAN-compatible printer to the Internet via wired LAN and connecting the printer and a tablet with a Lightning-USB or USB-C® cable, the device can use the Internet without Wi-Fi communication. At the same time, the tablet can communicate with the printer via USB or LAN and can be charged from the printer.
Which Printer Models Include SteadyLAN?
SteadyLAN is available on the following mC-Print models: mCP21LB, mCP31L, and mCP31LB.
Next Steps
If you already own an applicable mC-Print model, all you need to do to enjoy SteadyLAN is update your firmware through the mC-Print Utility app.
It’s hard to believe, but another year, another decade, and another NRF are upon us! NRF 2020 Vision: Retail’s Big Show “is the centerpiece of NRF Retail Week, where the entire industry unites to get a whole new perspective. NRF convenes the largest community of movers, shakers and industry makers who come together to see beyond what is, to reveal what could be. NRF 2020 is where visionary talent meets visionary tech and the latest and greatest becomes the here and now!”
The Star team is excited to head back to NRF in 2020, and will be located at booth #5419. Read on to discover what will be in store with Star this year, from our new mPOS technologies to our rooftop party.
Star Solutions at NRF 2020
Get hands-on experience with Star’s latest mPOS technology in our NRF “main street,” featuring a café, retail store, and bath and body shop. With sleek tablet solution stands, easy-to-integrate printers, certified scales, and much more, Star is bringing big things to the big show in the big city!
Elo’s product portfolio includes a broad selection of interactive touchscreen displays from 10-70 inches, all-in-one touchscreen computers, OEM touchscreens and touchscreen controllers and touchscreen monitors. Elo’s touchscreens can be found in in gaming machines, interactive kiosks, hospitality systems, point-of-sale terminals, wayfinder displays, interactive retail displays, transportation applications, and more.
Erply’s cloud-based, full-featured point of sale solution has helped them become a recognized leader in the retail POS space. Erply POS serves retailers large and small, and they’re well-known for their comprehensive POS features, world-class API, highly secure servers, personable customer support, and mobile applications.
imageHOLDERS designs and manufactures tablet enclosures, iPad kiosks and innovative mPOS solutions which allow your business to engage customers and drive sales. Their patent pending design process means we are the only company in the world who can securely display any Windows, Android or iOS tablet, giving your business the freedom to choose a device that best suits your needs.
Kiosk Group is a privately-owned, Maryland-based company that many leading companies, organizations, and government agencies trust and rely upon for interactive kiosks. Kiosk Group has developed both hardware and software for hundreds of interpretive exhibits, transactional kiosks, sales exhibits, and training programs.
nCLOSE manufactures custom Point of Sale (POS) protective enclosures to house and protect tablets and mobile credit card readers. With nCLOSE, rest assured that your Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is in the exact same place you left it, when you turned your back to help a customer.
PredictSpring is the unified commerce platform to connect consumer and store associate experiences. PredictSpring innovative technology powers Modern POS, mPOS, Clienteling, and Native Mobile Apps for brands and retailers.
Sitoo is a world-leading cloud-based Mobile Point of Sales (mPOS) for global retailers. With a razor sharp focus on the digitalization of brick-and-mortar retail, Sitoo makes the physical stores a natural part of the omnichannel shopping experience – helping retailers sell everywhere and fulfill anywhere.
Sophatar is a Silicon Valley based Software Company providing innovative solutions for higher customer engagement in retail, hospitality and enterprise markets, including digital signage. The solutions utilize a software-as-a-service business model and run on commercially available hardware.
SuiteRetail’s SuitePOS is a single fixed-lane and mobile point-of-sale app for in-store check-out and clienteling. SuitePOS functions without any compromise to CRM, marketing, inventory and financial integrations.
Tulip’s powerful, yet simple-to-use mobile apps enable store associates to easily look up products, manage customer information, check out shoppers, and communicate with clients. The end results are amazing customer engagements, great customer experiences and higher sales.
Vend enables retailers to accept payments, sell in-store and online, manage their inventory, reward customer loyalty, and report on their business in real time. Launched in late 2010, Vend is now used in over 20,000 stores across 140 countries and is continuing to grow at a rapid pace.
Star’s Rooftop Party
Soak in the beautiful New York City view at Star’s rooftop party! Join us for a night filled with valuable networking, an open bar, and a spread of light snacks.
When: Sunday, January 12, 2020, 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Where: Monarch Rooftop, 71 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Who: You and your guests are welcome to join the event!
Black mark label support
