THE BASICS


Our printer technology
 BOCA’s Ghostwriter family of ticket printers are the most flexible and powerful direct thermal printers on the market today. Direct thermal technology eliminates the need for ink, toner and ribbon required by most other printing mechanisms. By using BOCA’s Friendly Ghost Language (FGL) or our printer drivers (available for Windows®, Mac and Linux environments), you can literally design and print your own tickets and labels within minutes. Maximum print speed is an industry leading 14 inches per second (200 dpi, high speed configuration). High resolution graphics and a variety of industry standard bar codes can be easily printed.

Custom Ticket and Label Stock
 For users of BOCA direct thermal printers, we manufacture custom thermal ticket and label stock. We use the highest quality base papers, inks and adhesives and guarantee them to be compatible with our equipment. BOCA provides a lifetime print head replacement policy (at no charge) for printers that exclusively use BOCA stock. We will replace any print head that fails while exclusively using BOCA stock, if not caused by negligence.  NOTE:  600 dpi heads are not covered by the replacement policy.

Friendly Ghost Language (FGL)
 FGL is BOCA’s industry standard programming language which allows the user to print data, graphics, boxes and bar codes anywhere on the ticket in virtually any direction. BOCA also offers printer drivers for most common PC, Apple and Linux operating systems.

Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.

FGL 26 and FGL 46 features
 BOCA ticket printers are offered with a choice of two levels of electronics. Our basic level is called FGL 26 and our enhanced level is called FGL 46. The FGL 46 option provides the user with a number of additional features including increased print speed, user-accessible flash memory, PCX graphics compatibility, scaleable fonts and Asian Font options (Japanese, Korean, Chinese). Please refer to the FGL Comparison Chart for details.


Our product line
 Our basic product line can be divided into two groups of ticket printers: printers which have an integrated auto-cut capability and those printers which require manual tear-off of the ticket. The Mini line of printers (XMini, Mini MB, Mini Plus, VM, Dual Mini) are auto-cut ticket printers and the Micro line (XMicro, Micro, Micro Plus, SubMicro, Dual Micro) are manual tear-off units. Ticket stock is stored external to the printers except for our "Plus" models which house the ticket stock in a locked internal compartment. Most printers are designed for table top or shelf installation. However, we do offer a number of models specifically configured for in-counter (vertical) or kiosk use. All printers are available with 2.0, 3.25 and 4.0 inch wide print heads, except where indicated. BOCA also offers an optional adjustable paper path which will accept any ticket width between 2.0 and 3.25 inches. A menu driven LCD and control panel (except for Sub and X series) allows the user to control many internal printer functions. Printers may be ordered with a serial, parallel or USB interface.  Ethernet and Bluetooth interfaces are available at a slight premium.

RFID
 Many of the printers in our product line can be configured to read and encode onto RFID IC's embedded into the ticket.  Our printers can be configured to accept one of these two RFID standards - Mifare Ultralight or ISO-15693.


FGL 22

FGL 24

FGL 26

FGL 42

FGL 44

FGL 46

Processor Speed (theoretical/effective speed)

25/25 MHz

150/100 MHz

150/100 MHz

25/25 MHz

150/100 MHz

150/100 MHz

Ethernet Capability

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Alphanumeric LCD Display

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Control Panel with LEDs

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Customer Accessible Flash Memory

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Expansion Memory Option

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Download space - dram

Up to 878K

Up to 6.5M

Up to 13M

Up to 2.6M

Up to 6.5M

Up to 13M

Download space - flash

0

0

0

128K

256K

512K

Download space - expansion flash

0

0

0

1.9M

2M

4M

True Type Font Capability

N

N

Y

N

N

Y

Maximum Print Speed

8 ips

8 ips

8 ips

10 ips

10 ips

10 ips

Maximum Print Density

300 dpi

300 dpi

300 dpi

300 dpi

300 dpi

300 dpi

Maximum Printable Area @ 200 dpi

84

84

84

84

84

84

Maximum Printable Area @ 300 dpi

42

42

42

42

42

42

FGL Interface

Std

Std

Std

Std

Std

Std

PCL4 Interface Option

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Softfont Option

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Full FGL font set

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Scaleable Softfonts

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Scaleable FGL Fonts

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Shading

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

PCX Graphics

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

FGL Graphics

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Asian Font Option (Japanese, Chinese, etc.)

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Bi-directional Parallel Interface

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Magnetics Option

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Dual Option

N

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Cash Drawer Option

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Second Interface Option

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Adjustable Paper Path

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

NOTE: All values are approximate
 

Please note that the SubMicro, SubMini and X Series Printers are not available with any of the following options:

 

  • Magnetics

  • Two sided printing

  

  • Dual Path

  • Second interface

 


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