BIRCH Intelligent Systems, Industrial Automation,Digital Healthcare

Birch After Computex 2013

We are glad to inform you that we just finished our exhibition at Computex 2013, and we had a successful show. Birch had a 36-sq meter both to demonstrate the related products. Our products attracted the visitors’ attentions. We like to share you with our comments as below for your kind reference:

1. Start Stylish, Celebrate the difference

a. It is the first time that we saw French-based company” Aures” showed their stylish( but with high prices) systems at Computex. It is clear that the market start to accept the state-of-the-art POS systems to match their applications., and it could be the market trends in the near future

b. Birch is one of the forerunner in POS market to design and produce the POS systems with compact/sleek and elegant design. Now Birch has all-in-one systems as below:

Products series Target markets

EstiLO series Space-concerned market( Industry, office Kiosk and information Kiosk)

CARiSMA series High-performance CPU concerned market( Retail and POS)

Modular concept PP/PT/PZ/PR Flexible and inventory load concerned market( Retail and POS).

2. Discover the flexibility-------Modular Spirit design PP/PT/PZ/PR system

a. The business world is a jungle nowadays, the best survival ways is to cut-down the inventory load, but meet all of the applications from the market. Then Birch modular spirit design concepts PP/PT/PZ/PR could be your solutions for the volatile market needs.

b. PP/PT/PZ/PR basic product structures as below:

Base = 10”/12”/15” Panel PC( D525 with silent fan or N2800 Fan-less)

PT all-in-one = Base + A2 stand

PZ all-in-one = Base + A1 stand

PR all-in-one = Base + A8II trunk( 80mm thermal receipt printer built-in)

c. The great advantages of PP/PT/PZ/PR------------cost effective, Stylish/sleek, Flexible and low inventory load!

3. New Thinking, New possibility-------A8II Trunk( with 80mm thermal receipt printer built-in)

Besides PR system with prinitng function, there are new possibilities uses as below on the A8II trunk.

a. Knock-down A8II into stand-alone BP-001II 80mm thermal receipt printer

---Just have the BP-001 change materials( Top and base cover and RS232/USB long cables) instead of the A8 materials ones, then it become stand-alone BP-001II

---BP-001II could be the most compact/smaller 80mm “ Streight-up “with “front-paper-out “receipt printer in the POS market

b. A8II trunk to work with any system or system-holder with VESA75 ( the possibility is to have another custom-made Notebooks holder with VESA75).

4. CARiSMA upgrade-----Core i3/i5/i7 platform with Pentinum #2117U CPU

a. Besides the current available CARiSMA models( Core2Duo, and D525), Birch released at Computex 2013 the CARiSMA with Core i3/i5/i7 platform with Pentium # 2117U CPU. This new product is scheduled to have the mass production at the end of this June.

b. Attached you will find our brochure.

5. LAN+ USB+ RS232, Smarter applications----- BP-T3 80mm thermal receipt printer available

a. No matter any interface of LAN, RS232 or USB, BP-T3 receipt printer get your applications easier than ever, with no husstle on the interface change.

b. 260mm/second print speed and powerful function( OPOS drivers, NV logo, QR code supported….)

c. Cost effective model to meet your budget concerned.

6. Heavy duty and amazing box systems ---------Birch 866( Core i platform) and IT6300C( Aluminum + Fan-less)

There are big demands from Digital signage and heavy loading CPU POS application for box systems in the market. Then Birch box systems could be your good choices:

Birch 866 Sany Bridge Corei3/i5/i7 platform, socket and upgradeable CPU device ( the default CPU now is G2020T)

IT6300C Aluminum chassis, DualCore N2800, Fan-less.

7. Upgrate BP-002/BP-003/BP-007( high-end thermal receipt printer.)

a. In order to meet the tablet and iPAD market, Birch upgrades the BP-002/BP-003/BP-007 with new drivers of IOS and Andorid.

b. BP-002/BP-003/BP-007 market position

---Always interface changeable

---More interface cards support( RS232 + USB, LAN+ USB, LPT + USB, Wifi+ USB and Bluetooth + USB)

---any custom-made firmeware is welcome.

8. POS system revolution----- 10” EstiLO( LED TFT + projected capactive touch)

a. We try to incorporate plenty of art onto EstiLO all-in-one system for point-of-service and hospitality market. We evolve it in exciting ways. Birch EstiLO is with Aluminum chassis, DualCore N2800( 1.86Ghz), Fan-less, it can be option for mSATA besides the normal HDD/or SSD. Furthermore, it supports 2 x Audio set( MIC + Earphone)

b. Some things just feel right, we do it. We are very optimistic about 10” EstiLO for hospitality and Kiosk markets. The market is growing now.

Birch POS and barcode products modernize your applications

We are glad to inform you that we are all back to our office after Chinese New Year Festival, everything is as usual and in order, we are full of energy for our business now.
We are very optimistic about the Auto-ID and POS market. Thanks to our R&D team, now We have a series powerful products to support you. We sincerely like to invited to join us. We like to share you with our activities and our product information as below.

- Birch Activities -

CeBIT 2013 Hanover Germany (March 5-9, 2013)

You are kindly invited to visit our booth at
CeBit 2013

---- Birch Stand # E58/5, Hall 5
----Free entrance coupons upon your request ! (please contact us for the details)

Food & Hotel Indonesia 2013 Jakarta Indonesia (April 10-13, 2013)

---- Birch Stand # A1422
----at Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran

- Key information about Birch New Products -

10", 12" and 15" PR ( My POS) ----Brings you a fresh approach !

---- All-in-one touch system with 80mm receipt printer built-in (with 80mm diameter paper roll)
---- Scaleale, flexible and elegant design with the most small foot print design.
---- 100% aluminum chassis
----VESA75 device

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BP-001 Compact 80mm receipt printer ----Leading the new market way !

---- Aluminum chasing with 50% less in size in its class
---- Complete full set of SEIKO mechanizm (printer head + autocutter), print speed up to 200mm/second.
---- Windows 7 drivers supported.

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IT6000C2 EstiLO (10" LED LCD all-in-one system) ----Making your hospitality solutions shine up !

---- Birch is the foreunner in Taiwan to release 10" POS system (point-of-service) with "LED backlit LCD" and "Projected Capacitive touch"
---- You are well advised to keep your eyes open to the Point-of-Service, hospitality and Kiosk market, besides the traditional ones.

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Core i3/i5/i7 systems ----High performance POS systems especially for heavy transactions

---- Sandy Bridge: Birch currenty have BIRCH 866 at our lines; it is based on Core i3/i5/i7 M/B with Intel H61 chipset, socket and upgradeable CPU design (our standard is G630T----2.3Ghz, 3M Cache)

---- Ivy Bridge: The Birch IVY bridge Core i3/i5/i7 M/B as below is under developing, and we will apply this new M/B to CARiSMA, PP/PT/PZ, and PR series in this May.

It is Core i3/i5/i7 Intel HM 70 chipset, IVY bridge generation.
Standard CPU is DualCore Pentinum #2117U (Ultra Book CPU)

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True-FLAT bezel designs ----A fresh approach for touch

All of Birch all-in-one touch systems already phased in "True-FLAT bezel designs" which offer you a complete new fresh feelings. Birch offers the True-FLAT bezel designs systems as below for your kind choice:

10" model-----zFLAT true-FLAT over projected capacitive touch screen
15" model-----tFLAT true-FLAT over 5-wire resistive touch screen

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DualCore N2800 Birch systems ----Valuable information between the lines

---- Birch applies N2800 to POS systems of EstiLO, PP/PT/PZ/PR with the outstanding features as below to support your applications:

Options for dual storage (2.5" SATA HDD/SSD + mSATA SSD)
10 level degree screen brightness adjustable by BIOS
1 x cash drawer port (12V/24V)

---- Birch all DualCore N2800 systems are bundled with 1 x free charge cash drawer cable from now on.

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Options for 15" all-in-one systems with LED backlit LCD

---- You can have options for Birch 15" all-in-one systems with LED-backlit LCD (over CARiSMA, PP/PT/PZ/PR series) with less additional charge.

---- LED-backlit LCD's enables longer life-span and more resistant to shock and vibrations in comparison with general CCFL types.

Birch promotion campaign in 1st Q

Birch is a 20 years old company specialized in Auto-ID( barcode + MSR) and POS products in Taiwan. Besides our production facilities, we have a strong R&D team and joint-venture M/B factory to support you. You are kindly invited to visit our webside at www.birch.com.tw to have further information about Birch and our products.

1. Birch promotion campaign in 1^st Q

Please note this promotion campaign just valid for---- your confirmed order reach us not later than Mar 30

a. Buy DS-715 price-checker , get Free handheld laser scanner ( BS-915III)1pc

DS-715--- Professional price-checker solid built-in Omni-directional laser, w/software utilities, Ethernet, or PoE or Wifi

BS-915III—Gun type laser scanner, with auto-Sensor function.

b. Buy Birch Box system( Birch 866 or IT6300C), get 15” touch monitor Free charge upgraded to LED TFT.

Birch 866----- Core i3/i5/i7 platform , Intel H61 chipset, socket-and upgradeable CPU, our standards is G630T/2GB/320GB

IT6300C-------Fan-less and aluminum chassis box system. Dual Core N2800( 1.86Ghz)/2GB/320GB

15” LED TFT touch monitor( TM2600-15BUE): 15” LED type touch monitor, built-in USB Hub, USB

c. Buy BS-370 omni-directional laser, get free handheld scanner( CD-100) x 1pc

BS370: Large screen omni-directional laser scanner, 24 interlocking light, 2400 scan/second.

CD-100: 60mm barcode CCD scanner.

2. Keep up with our advanced products

Thanks to our R&D team, Birch released a series of advanced products as below for your applications:

a. PR all-in-one system ( built-in 80mm thermal receipt printer)

Birch PR all-in-one system design is based on Scale-able concepts, which help you more flexible in your applications and easy in your inventory load controls.

b. 15” LED TFT all-in-one systems and 15” LED TFT Monitors

Available models: CARiSMA, PP/PT/PZ/PR, TM2600

c. 10” LED TFT with PCT touch EstiLO all-in-one and 10” monitors

d. Birch releases 15” PZ all-in-one touch system with LED type TFT.

3. CeBit 2013 Hannover( March 5-9), Germany

--- You are kindly invited to visit our booth at CeBit 2013---------- Stand # E58/5, Hall 5

---We offer Free charge entrance coupon upon your request( please contact sales@mail.birch.com.tw for details)

Snapshots of Birch new product functions

Merry Christmas and Happy New year.

We wish a prosperous and fruitful new year to you, your family and your staff.

< PR model>

We are glad to inform you that we will have a mass production for PR system( built-in receipt printer) in this December.

Please note PR system concepts actually consists of 3 x modular parts as below. There are different ways you could apply our modular concepts into your applications:

-----Birch Panel PC All-in-one touch system.

---- A8 trunk ( built-in receipt printer) support VESA75

-----BP-001 Mini aluminum 80mm x 80mm thermal receipt printer( it could be the most compact printer in its class).

< Information between the lines>

1. In brief, PR system designs based on Modular spirit concept, you can have any size of Birch Panel PC series become PR series. It brings you a more Flexibility and Easiness in your inventory load controls.

2. Please note BP-001 is new thermal receipt printer made of aluminum chassis( except paper roll cover), it is built-in SEIKO full mechanism #CAPD347( including printer head and AutoCutter) with print speed up to 200 mm/second. RS232 + USB interface.

< zFLAT -PCT touch>

Please notice we release zFLAT - PCT touch in all 10 inch models. It is special “ Glass” with PCT technology, and PCT touch screen doesn’t with“ Tail “.

To sum up above, the PCT touch screen completely is flat. So what we have to do is to have “ Aluminum bezel ” match the PCT thickness to reach “ Zero gap” . So we called it as “ zFLAT” .

In another words, our 10 inch models have had below outstanding features already.

a. LED screen rather than traditional light tube.

b. 1024 X756 in resolution, that is as high as 15 inch model

c. True flat as standard

d. Beside standard touch, also option for PCT touch

You are well notice Birch is hardly working to release the new industry hardware and involve

into more diversified application. You are well invited to join us.(www.birch.com.tw)

Birch at Gitex 2012

We actually finished Gitex 2012 Dubai exhibition on last week. We had a 30 sq meter booth and lots of new products which were very attractive the customers. So we had a wonderful and successful exhibition at Gitex 2012.

1. Price-checker DS-715-----

a. Please note DS-715 series price-checker supports Arab langauge besides the English.

b. DS-715 is a solid design with “ Omni-directional laser scanner” and comes with software programs support.

2. On the Up-----Birch PR ( all-in-one touch system built-in 80mm x 80 thermal receipt printer)

a. Birch PR all-in-one touch system with thermal receipt printer built-in is the hippest POS system at Gitex 2012. It is so compact and elegant design with powerful function.

b. PR series can be available for the following models

-----10” LED ( 1024 x 768) with PCT touch( projected capacitive touch), Dual Core N2800( 1.86Ghz), zFLAT( true-FLAT)

-----15” CCFL( 1024 x 768) with 5-wire resisitive touch, with or without tFLAT( true-flat).

3. Birch modular concepts designs ---- POS systems( PP/PT/PZ/PR series)

Birch modular concepts design POS systems help you have more flexible control over your inventory load to meet the dynamic market siutations. The design concept based on the Panel PC( 10” 12” or 15”)

----Basic structure= 10” 12” or 15” Panel PC

---M/B: Dual Core 1.8Ghz with silent fan., or Dual Core N2800( 1.86Ghz) Fan-less

---Bezel free designs---- with or without true-FLAT

PT series = PP + high stand

PZ series = PP + low stand

PR series= PP + PR dedicated stand( 80mm thermal receipt printer built-in)

4. Birch keeps roaring ahead-----in the POS market with Dual Core N2800( 1.86Ghz)

Birch is the forerunner in the POS market to release N2800 M/B at Gitex 2012.

a. N2800 is the poweful CPU wth low power consumptions. It is 6.5 watt – CPU + north bridge.

b. You can have your choices for the following models with N2800 M/B

---IT6000C2: EstiLO all-in-one touch( 10” LED, PCT touch, zFLAT true-flat)

---IT6300C: EstiLO mini box( N2800)

---10” or 15” PP/PT/PZ all-in-one touch systems.

5. Birch 10” EstiLO all-in-one touch system----- ECO and Environmentally friendly features

Birch 10” EstiLO is poised to revolutionize the concepts of point-of-service ( POS), Kiosk , banking, service-oriented hospotality systems

----10” LED( 1024 x 768) without tube and inveter,

----standard with 5 wire true flat and option with projecetd capacitive touch( PCT) with anti-scratch.

----Built-in Dual core N2800 low power consumption

----supports 1 x cash drawer port

----supports 2 x Audio set( MIC + earphone)

----Opitons for dual storage( 1 x 2.5” HDD + 1 x mSATA SSD)

< PS> EstiLO series: IT6000C2 all-in-one touch system, IT6300C EstiLO Mini Box

We found the demands for the meeting room applications and office Kiosk are growing in the Middle East countries.

6. Birch high-performance CPU system is blooming

a. Birch 866 Core” i” box system( core i3/i5/i7) with socket-type CPU( Birch standard CPU is G630T)

b. 15” CARiSMA all-in-one touch system can be options for “ tFLAT” true-flat with aluminum bezel.

7. Birch Industrial and Kiosk products

a. BF481 Flash Turbo long range CCD with industrial decoder built-in

b. BT4910i pocket-type mobile long range CCD, supports bluetooth Class 1 + 128K memory + rechargeable batteries, supports iPHONE and iPAD.

c. FS-499: Fixed long range CCD , optional for desktop holder.

d. D532su: Mini Kiosk printer engine, built-in SEKIO printer mechanizm and SEIKO Cutter, with kiosk sensors to avoid the paper jams.

e. BS-360: compact omni-directional laser scanner

f. BS-370: large screen omni-directional laser scanner supports 2^nd handheld barcoe scanner connceted.

8. Birch full lines of receipt printers

----BP-002 2” thermal receipt printer( RS232 + USB, LPT, LAN+ USB, Bluetooth + USB, WiFI + USB)

----BP-003 3” thermal receipt printer with AutoCutter(RS232 + USB, LPT, LAN+ USB, Bluetooth + USB, WiFI + USB)

----BP-007 Dot matrix receipt printer with AutoCutter( RS232, USB, LPT, LAN + USB).

9. Birch other products:

We actually have a series of low cost barcode scanners and POS peripherals( cash drawers , programable K/B and VFD dispkay) at our lines for your choices.

You are well invited to visit Birch website , www.birch.com.tw and join the smart concept of new POS ( point of service ) from Birch.