Point-of-sale (POS) printers are interwoven into the fabric of culture and commerce in cities and towns the world over. Virtually anywhere business is transacted—from subways and supermarkets to restaurants and rental cars—with cash, debit or credit—there’s a POS printer reliably documenting the transaction with printed hardcopy receipts.

Because consumers sometimes discard receipts, it may be tempting to dismiss their value. The fact is that receipts, and the receipt printers that produce them, play a vitally important role in business. In retail, for example, receipts empower floor staff to efficiently handle returns and exchanges, which in turn fosters good will with customers. Without POS printers, today’s efficient, streamlined style of commerce would simply cease to exist.

This pervasive use of POS printers clearly highlights the need for durable, dependable devices upon which organizations can rely—month in and month out. That’s why companies around the world continue to trust Citizen and our reliable, feature-rich line of POS printers.

Practical Innovations—Right at the Point of Sale

Citizen continually strives to engineer world-class receipt printers that perform above the industry standard. We’re in touch with the market and the needs of our customers. This dedication enables Citizen to deliver a wide range of thermal and impact POS printers, offering novel and robust features.

A POS Printer for Every Environment

Citizen products are more than peripherals, they’re dependable business tools, precision engineered with innovative features to fit a wide range of customer needs and work environments.

Some excellent examples are the CT-S2000, CT-S651, and CT-S851 hi-speed thermal printers, featuring Citizen’s proprietary Spill-Shield^TM design to help protect internal mechanisms against damage from moisture and foreign objects. For a busy hospitality environment, this is a welcome and genuinely practical innovation. For demanding retail environments, there’s the high-speed, dual-color CT-S310II thermal POS printer that combines green, environmentally-friendly features with the smallest footprint in its class. Click on the links throughout this site to see many other examples.

Citizen Printers Answer the Call

How well do you know your customers’ business? Are they planning to expand into a more mobile model? Will they require POS receipt printers with a smaller footprint? What is their budget? Could they use a receipt printer that doubles as a barcode label printer? Whatever the scenario, Citizen has a dependable solution to accommodate their need.
To learn more, click on the choice below that best describes your marketplace:

	Pharmacy Citizen’s high-quality line of barcode label printers performs reliably in real-world pharmacy environments, offering the performance and durability practitioners want and the security that federal regulators demand.			Healthcare Citizen barcode printers are "the right printer" for accommodating healthcare needs. From patient admissions through radiology, pharmacy and administration of medication. Many Citizen healthcare printers carry full certifications from key healthcare organizations, such as Meditech, Epic and Soft.
	Hospitality and Food Service Citizen POS receipt printers are equipped with subtle-but-critical tools for these kinds of environments. That’s one reason you’ll find them in the world’s finest hotels, restaurants and specialty food businesses. Citizen’s Spill-Shield™ design, for example, protects internal mechanisms against moisture and debris, while our Quick-Clear™ technology enables fast, one-touch clearing of paper-cutter jams.			Retail and Point of Sale Speed, convenience and security are vital components of every retail transaction—and of Citizen’s POS printer and barcode label printers. We offer a solution for virtually any retail environment—in both standard and larger printing formats. Citizen printers easily handle lots of data, making them a popular choice for bridal registries, salons, appliance warehouses and other retail settings.
	Logistics and Warehousing The ability to accurately prepare, track and confirm deliveries is the very essence of this industry. So it’s no wonder why many of the world’s most respected shipping enterprises trust Citizen barcode label printers and POS receipt printers. Citizen printers offer unmatched reliability and ease of use in any high-volume shipping, logistics or delivery environment.			Mobile Credit Any application requiring on-the-spot printing of delivery slips and receipts is a perfect place for Citizen’s lightweight, feature-rich mobile POS printer. Some Citizen models maximize wireless freedom through infrared (IrDA) or Bluetooth interfaces and are credit card ready with integrated magnetic stripe readers (MSR) for on-the-spot credit card transactions. Others produce a wide four-inch printout to accommodate users in route accounting, healthcare, law enforcement and field service.