When were receipt rolls invented?

A brief history of today’s receipt rolls The invention of receipt rolls is closely linked to the history of cash registers, as these devices are their main application. The cash register as we know it today was developed in the late 19th century to simplify and automate cash handling in shops and retail businesses. There are no precise records of who invented receipt rolls, as several people probably developed them independently. However, the first evidence of receipt rolls dates from the late 1800s, when the first cash registers came onto the market. The first cash registers used paper tapes to record transaction information. These tapes were unlike today’s receipt rolls: they were more like a long strip of paper pulled from a roll and written on by hand. The development of receipt rolls in their present form began in the 1950s, when the first electric cash registers came onto the market. These new registers used thermal paper activated by heat to produce an image on the paper. Thermal receipt rolls were a substantial improvement over the old manually labelled paper tapes, as they were much easier and faster to use.  In the following decades, receipt rolls became increasingly important as cash registers became common in almost all industries and retail businesses. Today, receipt rolls are an essential part of every checkout station, helping to record transactions, issue receipts and manage accounting records.