September, 99
TTPM2 Installation and Programming Manual
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1 INTRODUCTION
This document describes installation and operation of TTPM2 Ticket Printer/Encoder,
which creates credit-card-wide documents with magnetic encoding and thermal printing.
1.1 Document
printing
TTPM2
uses the direct thermal printing technique and can print the entire thermosensitive
surface of the document with text or graphics, or both. Text block position and orientation
is software programmable as is the character size.
A text block can be identified as either
fixed information
which is stored in the unit until an
”All Clear” software command is sent, or as
variable information
, automatically erased as
soon as printing of the document has been completed. This feature allows printing from a
data file containing the variable data information.
EAN-13 and Code 39 bar codes can be generated and printed.
1.2 Magnetic
encoding
Two magnetic tracks can be encoded: Either with standard low coercivity recording, or
optional “household-magnet proof” high coercivity recording.
Track combinations
ISO track 2 at 75 BPI (Bits Per Inch), and ISO track 3 at 210 BPI
ISO track 1 at 210 BPI, and ISO track 2 at 75 BPI
Center track at 75 or 210 BPI
Naturally, the TTPM2 can be used for encoding on a single track only.
Encoding in ISO standard format, or in hexadecimal format, is software selectable. Read-
after-write is automatically performed. Software selectable decode functions are avail-
able.
See also ”Magnetic encoding- and decoding-related commands” on page 34.
1.3 Document
handling
A standard TTPM2 printer has one document entry for fanfold ticket stock, and one entry
for single tickets. The printer can be ordered in Dual Consecutive Track (DCT) version
with both upper and lower document entries designed for fanfold ticket stock.
There are two optional front load alternatives designated front load 1 and front load 2.
Both make it possible to load single tickets through the ticket exit, which replaces the up-
per single ticket entry at the rear of the printer.
In addition to this, front load 2 has a waste bin function for redirecting used or invalid tick-
ets to a waste bin, thus preventing useless tickets being presented to the customer.
An external card dispenser that can be added to the printer handles sheet cut tickets and
cards. The card dispenser can hold about 200 tickets depending on the thickness of
them.