Specifications

Single-Ticket Handling
Inserting a Single Ticket
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Previously Encoded Tickets
One use of the single ticket handling is to process a ticket several times. For example, if you
issue a return train ticket (Stockholm to Oslo and back to Stockholm) you can add print, and
re-encode the magnetic stripe when the first part of the journey is made.
1. Use the applicable decode command to read the previously encoded ticket information.
2. The data is transmitted to the host computer, and the ticket is positioned in the active
position of the upper entry, ready for a new encoding and printing.
3. Printing and encoding is effected using the same commands as for processing a ticket
from a fan-fold ticket stock, and the ticket is ejected to the customer.
Inserting a Single Ticket
In the standard TTPM2, inserting a single-ticket into the upper rear document entry, will
trigger the single ticket loading process.
In front load printers, the application program must issue the command !L3 to trigger the
single ticket loading. The yellow indicator on the printer will blink to indicate that the
application program wants the operator to insert a single ticket. When a ticket is inserted, the
loading process starts. To speed up ticket handling, the magnetic code of track two is read and
placed in memory when loading the ticket from the front load option. !D will read track two
data from memory without having to move the ticket.
The single ticket loading process will retract the fanfold ticket stock in the lower document
entry to a standby position, and position the single ticket in the active position of the upper
entry.
The subsequent command string automatically processes the operation on the single-ticket
form.
Note • To avoid printing on top of the existing print of a previously used ticket:
• Include information in the magnetically encoded string, about which area of the ticket
has already been used for printing
• Read the magnetic stripe and let the host computer position new text on free spaces of
the ticket.
• Update the magnetic stripe with correct information about used areas if the ticket should
be used further.