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• Thermal Paper
• Thermal Paper Rolls
• POS Paper
• Printer Ribbons
• Plotter Paper
• Engineering Paper
• Thermal Fax Paper
• Epson Printer Ribbons
• Okidata Ribbons
• Colored Thermal Paper

There are a lot of companies selling business supplies both in traditional brick and mortar stores and over the internet. Some of them try to differentiate themselves with a flashy website, highly professional ad campaigns, or other characteristics that mean absolutely nothing to your business. When you need office supplies, POS supplies, and the other daily consumables required to run a business, you are looking for a grand total of three things in a supplier.

The first thing you want is low prices. Thermal paper rolls, cash register tapes and other basic commodities should not be taking a bite out of your profits. You need papers that fit your POS machines, and don’t jam. There isn’t a lot of variation in these kinds of papers as long as your supplier isn’t dealing with an overseas manufacturer who is dumping excess or second quality materials into the US market below cost. Simply find the US supplier with the lowest prices, ask them if they use American manufacturers, and stop wasting time.

The second thing you need is a supplier who has a constant inventory. If you run out of credit card machine paper for even a few hours, that can hurt your business income dramatically. Find a supplier who stocks all their POS papers themselves instead of relying on third party drop-shippers. Of course, you still have to watch your own inventory levels and make sure you have a safety margin in your own supply closet. With Brick and Mortar stores, this usually isn’t a problem, but with some internet suppliers it can be. Read through the information provided at the website or drop them an email to find out if they inventory their products or rely on someone else.

Finally, you want to do business with a company that you can contact in case of any problems. Let’s say you screw up and order the wrong part number and now need a rush shipment of a particular paper roll. Can you get someone on the phone to take care of that for you? Or do you have to send an email and hope someone replies in time to prevent an outage? Maybe you have a question about a certain POS machine’s paper compatibility, if you can’t get an answer right away from your supplier, its probably time to find a new supplier. Top of the line customer service is not something you should overlook, either in your own business or in your suppliers.

What you don’t need are suppliers whose prices are inflated by expensive advertising campaigns, like the office superstores. You don’t need fly by night internet suppliers operating through Ebay because they happened to run across a dozen cases of thermal paper and want to unload them quickly. And, you certainly don’t need a supplier who is too busy to give your small business the time of day when you have questions.