Product: PrimeTrex POS terminal
Company: TechTrex Inc.

TechTrex Inc. is a provider of hardware solutions for the payments industry. The company is based in Canada, but also has offices in the United States, Japan and China.

If you haven't yet heard of this company, you're about to hear more: At the end of October, TechTrex Inc. announced that Vital Processing Services Class-B certified its PrimeTrex point-of-sale desktop terminal for retail and restaurant applications.

The PrimeTrex is a low cost (priced just under $200), compact terminal with a speedy integrated clamshell thermal printer that prints an impressive 22 lines per second, including 384 dots per line.

The device moves transaction data with a 16-bit processor, comes with 512 KB of memory (upgradeable to 1.5 MB) and has a bi-directional magnetic stripe reader that reads Tracks 1 - 2 with the option of Track 3.

PrimeTrex's keypad is high-end and back lit; the keys are also coated with clear plastic that helps prevent them from getting sticky and dirty, which is often the plight of the typical rubber ones widely used in terminal devices.

The product comes with a wired dial up 14400 bps modem and 3RS232 ports, but if merchants are interested, it can be upgraded to high-speed Internet communication with TechTrex's TCP/IP conversion module, called ConverTrex.

ConverTrex has also been Class B certified by Vital, as well as Paymentech LP.

Combined (PrimeTrex plus ConverTrex), the company said the solution provides merchants with transaction times of less than three seconds.

"We view the TechTrex terminal as an excellent vehicle for Vital clients and their merchants to cost effectively upgrade POS terminals with equipment that is capable of handling today's complex applications and communication requirements," TechTrex President Charles Lee said.

TechTrex USA Inc.
2235 W. Charleston Street, #3
Chicago, IL 60647
630-368-0622
www.techtrex.com