please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . may 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message swecoin was a thermal printer manufacturing company based in sollentuna sweden . they also had a us based sales division swecoin us inc based in rhode island . today the previous swecoin business is an integrated part of the zebra technologies corporation . swecoin s printer designs utilize a patented looping presenter mechanism in which a paper loop is formed inside the printer before the printout is presented to the user of the printer to prevent the user from removing the printout before it has completed . swecoin ab industry computer hardware founded 1983 headquarters sollentuna sweden key people fredrik hesse general manager 2006 2009 tommy wincent managing director 1999 2006 products printers number of employees 25 website swecoin.se history the company swecoin ab was founded in 1983 as a successor to the mechanical cash register company sweda . originally the focus was to sell spareparts and similar for these machines . the company then branched into importing and distributing point of sales printers from manufacturers like data techno . in the very early 1990s the company started developing its own products kiosk and ticket printers . shortly after this a us distribution company swecoin us inc was founded in rhode island . the company grew organically and through acquisitions during the 1990s . acquisitions included the component distribution company promakon the injection moulding company nya ovansj plast och verktyg and the pay and display parking machine manufacturer ab cale industi . in 1997 the swecoin group was acquired by metric gruppen owned by rune andersson . in late 1999 some of the original owners bought back the core swecoin printer business from metric . the business grew significantly from this point with several new product lines being introduced for example the ttp 2000 series . in october 2006 swecoin was acquired by the zebra technologies corporation and by the end of 2009 it was fully integrated into zebra technologies . technology during its entire history swecoin has been on the leading edge of kiosk and ticket printer development . the looping presenter and pull detector for forced paper ejection are key examples of this as well as launching a usb kiosk printer as early as 1998 . other examples include network connectable ticket printers with magnetic encoding capabilities . products in 2008 the product line consisted of ttp 1000 kiosk printer 58mm print width ttp 2000 kiosk printer 58 to 82 5mm print width ttp 7030 kiosk printer 80 and 112mm print width ttp 8000 kiosk printer 210 and 216mm print width ttp 2100 ticket printer ttpm2 ticket printer with magnetic encoding ttpm3 ticket printer with magnetic encoding external links edit swecoin homepage us division homepage u.s. patent 5 215 393 for looping presenter this article related to a manufacturing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title swecoin & oldid 562403759 categories computer printer companiesmanufacturing company stubshidden categories articles lacking sources from may 2011all articles lacking sourcesall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 july 2013 at 15 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view