HISTORY IN THE MAKING: THE MUSEUM OF LONDON PUTS STAR'S PRINTER ON EXHIBIT

The Museum of London, the largest and most comprehensive city museum in the world, has selected the TSP400 thermal printer from Star Micronics, one of the leading POS printer manufacturers, as an integral part of its new EPOS system.

The TSP400 printers were purchased through specialist distributor, Roxburgh, to improve efficiency of admission ticket printing and issuing. As part of a new system, the museum required a printer that would be compatible with the current software to produce new style admission tickets of a particular size.

The TSP400 printer was chosen from a number of competing printers, after extensive research into possible ticketing systems available on the market. Recognised as the most suitable, the TSP400 printer is a high speed thermal POS printer, capable of incorporating bar-codes if required. Reliable and compact, the TSP400 is ideal for applications with limited counter space, featuring high quality printing, large paper capacity with adjustable roll widths and a free windows label design package.

Michelle Chambers, commercial services manager of the Museum of London commented, "The Museum of London tells the fascinating story of London from prehistoric times to the present day. As one can imagine, all year round there are extensive queues of people waiting to enter. The TSP400 printer is part of the new EPOS system ensuring that the public spend less time queuing and more time enjoying the museum".

About the Museum of London

The Museum of London opened in 1976 with the combined collections of the former Guildhall Museum (administered by the Corporation) and the much larger London Museum, which was a national museum. It attracts around 325,000 visitors from all over the world each year and fulfils the function of bringing the history of the city to life through its rich collections, exhibitions and galleries. As one of the world's largest urban history museums it houses 1.1 million objects and Europe's largest archaeological archive.

Past exhibitions include 'London Bodies', looking at the changing appearance of Londoners from prehistoric times to the present day. The exhibition utilised the raft of expertise at the Museum by combining archaeology and social history in a blockbuster exhibition. 'The eye that never sleeps', the first ever retrospective of the work of photographer Terence Donovan which runs until 1 August 1999, followed in Autumn 1999 by 'London Eats Out 1500-2000: from streetsellers to sushi bars', an exhibition about 500 years of eating out in London. The museum also provides facilities for conferences and functions which can be hired by city businesses and others.