EXHIBIT 24.3

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

      KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Bart C. Shuldman and Steven A. DeMartino, and
each of them acting alone, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, and agents,
with full power of substitution and revocation, for him and in his name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form
S-3 (the "Registration Statement") of TransAct Technologies Incorporated (the
"Company") relating to the common stock of the Company and any and all
amendments to the Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done, as fully as to all intents and purposes as
he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, or his or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated: June 18, 2004

                                                 /s/ Graham Y. Tanaka
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                                                 Graham Y. Tanaka

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