J2 is a UK-based group specialising in the manufacture of PC-based touchscreens, LCD touchscreen monitors and point-of-sale hardware to the retail, hospitality and leisure industries. The company was formed in 2002 when a group of directors led a management buy-out from a US company, bringing together J2 Retail Systems and Jade Communications. Some 3 years later, Jade was sold, leaving J2 with a thriving business designing and manufacturing touchscreen computers. Now with an installed base in excess of 50, 000 units, we have become the EPoS hardware of choice for sector leaders and growing businesses looking for unbeatable cost of ownership, a wide product range, innovation and exceptional reliability. Our users range from bakers to cinemas, and wine merchants to nightclubs. With our own in-house Design Engineers, we build to our own specifications and can customise product to client needs and environments. This includes wired or wireless operation, thin or thick client, stand-alone or networked operation. Optional swipe for payment cards and operator ID checking via card swipe or biometric fingerprint recognition are available. We support both resistive and infra-red touchscreen technology. To keep hardware ownership costs under control, we use emergent technologies. Also, rather than oblige you to take fixed fee maintenance, we offer incident-based maintenance and our trademark 3-year parts & labour warranty. We build certain products to an ultra-compact till footprint and offer flexible mounting. Our latest models, the J2 650 and the J2 580, have all the technology built into the head of the unit and come with a universal VESA mount as standard. This offers stand-, pole-, wall- and kiosk-mounting. Where silent operation is desirable, we can provide fanless models with or without a disk drive. As our hardware is often purchased with interfaced, point-of-sale applications and system support, we work closely with specialist retail and hospitality integrators and software houses to deliver a complete solution. From our headquarters in NW England, we manage product sales throughout the UK, Continental Europe and the Middle East. Our subsidiary operation, J2 Retail Systems Inc, based in California, covers the USA, Canada and South American markets. Our products are manufactured in the Far East under licence and to our unique specification.