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Author Topic: ticket stubs Barry Martin Expert Film Handler Posts: 203 From: Newington, CT USA Registered: Jul 2002 posted 11-15-2004 10:45 PM                        quote: Jason Black Auto-Maticket or something to that effect. Fastest machines in the world. I never had one go down, never had to adjust the cutting blades. You simply loaded your ticket stacks (I guess they would have taken rolls also), hit the appropriate number of for the tickets desired and voila... I miss them... they are nostaligic to say the least... We still have one and use it. I would prefer a computer printed system so that everyone's stubs told them which theater they were in and told us which movie/time they purchased without having to drag them back to the box office and "research" but it is nostalgic and just the right height so that when ejecting the maximum 5 tickets it can catch a little kid by surprise and make them jump. All in good fun of course.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-16-2004 12:31 AM                        quote: Frank Angel I wonder what everyone did with all those neat ticket roll machines. The AutomaTickets I've seen used folded stacks of tickets, not rolls. Did they make AutomaTickets that used rolls?  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 11-16-2004 07:25 AM                     quote: Frank Angel no preprinted ticket rolls anymore Although not preprinted with performance information the tickets used by the WABITS system (Warner Village / VUe) had a refrence number printed onto the unprinted tickets. When loading the machines the reference number of the first ticket had to be entered (twice) and the last number on the stack had to be entered (twice). This caused chaos during the busy times when the ticket stock ran out. quote: Dave Williams It is upc encoding and verification. Tickets are printed and each one has its own identifier code. Only the ones that have been sold are valid by the reader. I have seen a system like this used for ferry boarding cards (your ticket was also your room key). This system is also used at EasyCinema. The one issue with its use at a cinema is assuming you allow re-entry into the cinema (if people leave to use the toilet/phone/consessions stand) then it would have to accept the same ticket many times (and would not prevent groups recycling their tickets).  |  IP: Logged Barry Martin Expert Film Handler Posts: 203 From: Newington, CT USA Registered: Jul 2002 posted 11-16-2004 12:40 PM                        We have folded stacks of tickets, but I imagine a roll would work just as well if placed in the stock bucket. Yes, running out of tickets is a MAJOR pain in the middle of a show, as reloading is not a quick matter. Our tickets do have pre-printed numbers, we verify our attendance by writing down the beginning numbers, selling tickets, writing the ending numbers above the beginning and subtracting. We also just tear tickets at the box office since we only have two theaters and the theater entry is about 15 feet from the concession stand/box office so we can watch and make sure they go in the right film.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-16-2004 01:16 PM                     We have an Automaticket for a 5 screen theater. Two stations, one setup for matinee and another setup for evening. The tickets have preprinted numbers as well. Each auditorium has a seperate ticket color as well as the auditorium number printed on it. Evening tickets are a totally different set of colors. We tear tickets at the box office during the week and at the auditorium entrances on Friday and Saturday.  |  IP: Logged

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