C
Commercialpedia Indian Railways commercial circulars and policies

Thermal Printer for SP'TMs There has been widespréad frauds which have-been reported on SPTMs most of the frauds have happened due to printer: The printer…

Commercial Circular No. 103 of 2002 · 2002-12-03
Historical — likely supersededCircularreservation
Historical — likely superseded. This circular predates 2020 and has probably been replaced. Treat it as a record of what the rule was, not what it is. The official Railway Board PDF always prevails over anything shown here.

Open the official PDF on indianrailways.gov.in

Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 103 of 2002
File numberNO.2002/TGi/10/Printer
Date2002-12-03
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicreservation
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Thermal Printer for SP'TMs There has been widespréad frauds which have-been reported on SPTMs most of the frauds have happened due to printer: The printer need to switched over to thermal printer, Normal thermal paper which is available has three

Text of the circular

- GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
. (RAILWAY BOARD)
NO.2002/TGi/10/Printer New Deffi,dt.3.12.2002
To | व
The Chief Commercial Managers
All Zonal Railways.
(Commercial Circular No.~103/2002)
: Sub: Thermal Printer for SP'TMs
There has been widespréad frauds which have-been reported on
SPTMs most of the frauds have happened due to printer: The printer need to

be made fraud free thernial printer is one such option. M/s CMC have tested
the thermal printer with following specifications:-

Print Method , » ‘Thermal Line Printing

Characters per inch » 22.6 epi / 16.9 CPE’

Font » 9x 17/12x24

Interface » Bi-directional parallel

Speed कर {Onan / sec

MTBF - se 36 x 10000 hours

EMC standards » VCCI class A, CU marking
Safety standard y»  .UL/ CSA/ TUV (EN60950)

They have certified that such printers have beet tested in CMC lab
and can be fully integrated with both the versions i.e. existing and modified

SPTMs. They have also identified following firm whose thermal printers
havelbeen tested by them: . |

4

1. Epson ं ं é
2. Antrec | |

fntermac
Citizen
Olivetti

ty da to

CRIS has also tested the thermal! printer in their UTS application from
M/s Lipi. ं
oF a कि : a ‘
These thermal printers or any others equivalents may be tried at few
select stations on your railway and if they are able to eliminate the frauds,
they may be used for the purpose of ticket printing in existing SPTMs,
modified SPTMs and with UTS.

However, care should be taken that paper chosen for the tickeis should
have specifications as given.in Commercial Circular No.86 (copy attached),
so that the impression of the ticket on the thermal paper is lasting.

For mass scale deployment/replacement full techno-comiercial and
financial concurrence for thermal printers and approval of competent
authority be taken before changing all printers.

Action taken be advised to Railway Board

०
है
दी

(लि, ९. Goel) ..
Executive Director Passenger Marketing
¢

= er a
Thonn

Encl. - As above. ae ee

\y | | | (os
: EN Ah prattee aN: wy ' ; ie ae oy |
\ ane GOVERNMENT OF INDIA : ह an
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS |
(RAILWAY BOARD)
NO,200VEGU10/UTS New Delhi,
27" September 2002

, ae al :

. To.

The Chief Commercial Managets
Ali Zonal Railways,

. (Commercial Circular No.86/2002)

Sub: Thermal paper for UTS.

Many applications have commenced with thermal printer, some of the exainples
are issue of ticket through ATM and mobile ticketing. Suburban ticketing system
(modified SPTMsjand Unreset ved lickeling System (UTS) are also likely to be
switched over to thermal printer, Normal thermal paper which is available has three
serious draw backs:~ .
i
(a) . The impression gets faced tn soiie cases aller 10 days or,even-after a
month. This raises serious security issues and can lead to frauds.
ः (b) ‘Tickets can be rubbed off by alcohol. '
1 r x 0 ही
ः Besides in thermal printer i is possible te built in tot of special security features
ः like bar code and a special characté(which can be cross checked. पर

। ‘Thus, whenever therinal printer ts used for atty licketiggs application, the enclosed.
i specifications of the roll shduld always be observed. । . oa

| ।

‘Kindly acknowledge the receipt of this letter.

ं (हि. रि, दि. Goel)
Executive Director Passenger Marketing
Copy to:
Additional Member (Stores)
Controller of 5 All Zonal Rai oo Ey a
ontrolier of Stores, All Zonal Railways. - N44. es
we oe . -

eset Spee

2 -( a, ar Oo x ; we
1 कि

voy

SPECIFICATIONS OF SPITM TICKET STATIONERY FOR
THERMAL PRINTERS

MiWT385 - Top Coated Thermal Paper A top coated-high sensitivity
heavy weight paper that provides good aesthetic characteristics and dark print
image. This paper is excellent for printing and provides long term archivability. of
both alpha numeric and graphic printing in the thermal printer. Paper should be
compatible with thermal printer of speed 3 IPS or higher . The thermal coating is
protected by an over coating to form a barrier between the thermal coating aud

environmental fact

Extract shown above; the full text is available in the search app.

Related circulars

Search the whole library

Open this circular in the search app · Search all 4,233 documents