The story
Star Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was established in 1950 with a capital of ¥ 500,000, in Tegoshi, Shizuoka, to manufacture and sell wristwatches and camera parts.
After introduction of their LC series dot matrix printer range in the 1980s they came to dominate the printer market for home computers. In the mid-1990s home computers became outcompeted by East Asia-manufactured IBM PC derivatives, and dot matrix printers were outcompeted by bubble jet printers. Star re-oriented their business to focus on the point-of-sale market only, manufacturing peripherals such as small thermal transfer receipt printers and cash drawers.
In May 2022, Star Micronics introduced its TSP100IV, a thermal POS receipt printer which offers features for omnichannel retailing. The features also extend to its TSP143IV UE model, which provides multi-connectivity for mobile, cloud, and traditional POS applications.
From Wikipedia’s article on Star Micronics, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5