Key Differences Between the Toast TP200 Receipt Printer and the New Toast TP300 Printing Hub

Choosing a point of sale (POS) printer for your business is an important step. Consider the Toast TP200 receipt printer and the new Toast TP300 printing hub details below to see if one is best for you.

How Does a Receipt Printer Help Your Business?

Businesses use receipt printers to provide easy-to-read transaction receipts for customers and kitchen order tickets for employees. The customer receipt is a transaction record that helps with returns and provides customers with a copy of their purchases for their own records. Kitchen order tickets print out directly in the restaurant kitchen for food preparation purposes. When you choose a receipt printer, you should select one that’s fast, legible, and has the features your business needs in a receipt printer.

What Do Toast Printers Do?

Toast printers come in a variety of forms, including standard thermal receipt printers, kitchen printers, and complete printing hubs. With the various options, businesses can choose the Toast printer that works best for their needs, whether seeking out a basic kitchen printer, needing a POS system that prints out receipts, or looking for a Toast printer that completes a wide array of tasks.

What Does the Toast TP200 Receipt Printer Include?

The Toast TP200 receipt printer is a Toast POS thermal printer. The thermal receipt printer can print out order tickets and customer receipts. Users connect it to their Toast terminal by using a USB-C and Ethernet connection. This type of POS printer uses 80 mm thermal paper rolls and prints out fast, easy-to-read POS documents.  

What Does the Toast TP300 Printing Hub Include?

The Toast TP300 printing hub has more expansive features than the TP200 receipt printer. This POS setup is a combined receipt printer and printing hub. In addition to printing receipts, the Toast TP300 can connect and power various accessories, such as card readers, cash drawers, scanners, and scales. When printing receipts and kitchen tickets, the Toast TP300 printing hub uses 80 mm thermal paper rolls. This printing hub is compatible with Toast Flex3 terminals but you can use a printing hub adapter to connect it to other Toast devices as well.

How to Decide Which Toast Printer is Best For Your Business

Both Toast printers provide businesses with beneficial printing options; however, you might prefer one over the other depending on your business needs. The TP300 is Toast’s newer receipt printer while the TP200 is the original version. The TP300 has more built-in ports than the TP200 and also offers more diagnostic/status indicators. However, the TP200 is usually less expensive than its newer Toast counterpart. Overall, both provide reliable thermal printing duties for your Toast POS system.

Order Toast Thermal Paper from Paper Planet

Whichever Toast POS printer you choose, you can stock up on thermal paper from Paper Planet. We offer thermal paper rolls for Toast TP200 and TP300 printers. You can also order phenol-free thermal paper rolls for your Toast TP200 and TP300 paper supply.

Visit our online catalog today and place your next order of Toast TP200 and Toast TP300 thermal paper for your POS system.