How many receipt rolls a weekend of orders will use — per station, with spares — before you run out mid-service.
Ticket length is the one number to measure yourself: one ticket, cut to cut. Tickets per order is how many stations an average order reaches (drinks at the bar + food at the kitchen = 2).
Print every order at the right counter — get PRNTR
Free for any venue, bar or event. Paste this where you want it — it fits the width of the page.
Divide the roll length by the length of one ticket. An 80 m roll printing 15 cm tickets gives about 533 tickets. Measure one of your own tickets from cut to cut — long orders and big top margins change the answer more than anything else.
Most counter and kitchen thermal printers take 80 mm wide rolls; smaller handheld and card-machine printers take 57–58 mm. Check the width and the largest roll diameter your printer accepts before buying in bulk.
At least one spare at every printer, within reach, plus a box held centrally. A roll that runs out at the busiest moment costs more than the paper ever will.
Every item, modifier and note adds lines, and the printer also feeds blank paper above the first line and before the cut. A short order still uses the minimum length — our printers never cut a ticket shorter than 80 mm.
If the drinks print at the bar and the food at the kitchen, one order prints two tickets. Put the average number of stations an order reaches in the calculator.
More in the guides.