A thermally printable commercially functional cash register tape produced
from a thin oriented, heat stabilized, thermoplastic film is described.
This thermoplastic tape replaces the currently used paper cash register
tape. It will accept printing, has sufficient machine direction stiffness
and sufficiently reduced surface electrical charges to function in
conventional commercial cash register printers. The thermoplastic tape is
much thinner than the conventional paper tape so a roll of the plastic
register tape contains about 4.7 times the paper length of a typical cash
register roll.