Service manual

6 TTPM3 - Service Manual March 2009

2 PRODUCT PRESENTATION

TTPM3 Ticket Printer/Encoder creates credit-card-wide tickets with magnetic

encoding and thermal printing.

2.1 Document printing

TTPM3 uses the direct thermal printing technique and can print the entire surface

of the ticket with text, bar codes, or graphics, or any combination hereof. Text block

position and orientation is software programmable as is the character size.

The data sent to the printer is converted to a ticket image which is stored in the unit

until an ”All Clear” software command is sent, or the power is turned off/on.

2.2 Magnetic encoding

Three magnetic tracks can be encoded: Either with standard low coercivity

recording, or optional “household-magnet proof” high coercivity recording.

ISO track version

: ISO track 1 at 210 BPI

ISO track 2 at 75 BPI (Bits-Per-Inch)

ISO track 3 at 210 BPI

Center track version: 7 mm wide center track at 75 or 210 BPI

The TTPM3 can be used for encoding on one, two, or three tracks simultaneously.

Read-after-write is automatically performed.

You can also enter an already encoded ticket into the TTPM3 and read the

magnetic stripe and output the data to the host computer.

2.3 Document handling

TTPM3 printer has two rear inputs for ticket stock. Both can take continuous ticket

stock like fanfold or roll ticket material. You can configure the printer so that one is

used for continuous stock and the other is used for handfed tickets.

There is an optional front load mechanism that makes it possible to load single

tickets through the ticket exit. This replaces the upper ticket entry at the rear of the

printer. In addition to this, the front load has a wastebasket function for redirecting

used or invalid tickets to a wastebasket, thus preventing useless tickets being

presented to the customer.

You can select to partially eject the ticket so that the customer takes it from the

frontload mechanism, or fully eject the ticket so that it falls into a tray. You can also

select that a ticket should be redirected to a wastebasket as described above.

The TTPM3 comes as desktop printer, or as an OEM printer mechanism for kiosk

applications.

Encoding in ISO standard format, or in hexadecimal format (bit-by-bit), is software selectable.