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Parameters of thermal stationery used.in unreserved tickets

Commercial Circular No. 12 of 2018
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 12 of 2018
File numberNo. 2017/TG-I/10/UTS/Thermal
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicticket-checking
DirectorateTraffic Commercial
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Parameters of thermal stationery used.in unreserved tickets Top Coated Thermal] i) A top coated Thermal paper which forms sharp

Text of the circular

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

के के पर मे

No. 2017/TG-I/10/UTS/Thermal Stationery New Delhi, dated 07 .02.2018
Chief Commercial Managers,
All Zonal Railways

Principal Chief Materials Managers, i
All Zonal Railways

(Commercial Circular No. |. of 2018)

Sub: - Parameters of thermal stationery used.in unreserved
tickets

Ref: (i) Letter no. 2002/TG-1/10/P/UTS dated 30.01.2017
(ii) Letter no. 2002/TG-I/10/P/UTS dated 10.10.2017

RK

With reference to the above, the specifications of thermal stationery for UTS
and ATVM have been further deliberated in this office.

1.1 Accordingly, suitable changes in the earlier specification circulated vide
letters referred above have been made. A copy of new specifications is enclosed
herewith. The new specifications will supersede the earlier ones.

2. This issues with the concurrence of Traffic Commercial and C&IS Directorates:
of the Ministry of Railways.

DA: As above. obi
Ravindran)
Director Railway Stores/Printing,

Railway Board

Copy to: AM(C&IS)/Railway Board,
EDPM/Railway Board,
EDQA/RITES, Gurgaon

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11.

13.
14,

CCM/PMs and CCM/PSs, all Zonal Railways

EDV(T), EDFC, DVT, DF(C), PPS/FC, OSD/TC, F(C) & V(SS) branches of Railway
Board

GGM/ATARCTC, 8. 148, 11th Floor, Statesman House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi -
110001

Managing Director, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

Director General, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial- Railway Staff College

Vadodara

The Principals, Zonal Railway Training Institutes, Central Railway/Bhusawal, Eastern
Railway/Bhuli-Dhanbad Northern Railway/Chandausi East Central.
tailway/Muzaffarpur, NF Railway/Alipurduar, Southern Railway/Trichy, South Central
Railway/Moula Ali, SE Railway/Sini, North Western Railway/Udaipur

Director, Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management, Haidoi Bypass Road

Manak Nagar, Lucknow-2260011

General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR); 3, Chelmsford
Road, New Delhi

: General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation ( AIRF), 4, State-Entry-Road, New

Delhi
Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association: (FROA), Room No
370, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi

Secretary General, Indian Railways Promotee Officers Federation IRPOF), Room No
268, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi

Secretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No. 256-D, Rail Bhawan, New
Delhi

CTM, Metro Railway, Metro Rail Bhawan, 33/1, J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata-71

MD, Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd., Belapur Bhavan, Plot No.6, Sector 11, CBD
Belapur, Navi Mumbai-400614

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Specification for Thermal Paper for UTS Printers (January, 2018)

Item . J ः जि Description nouns
Top Coated Thermal] i) A top coated Thermal paper which forms sharp
Paper ' and dark image of the printed matter produced

by thermal printer.

ii) The thermal impression should-remain legible ©
for 90 days

iil) The thermal coating should be ‘protected by an.
over coating to form a barrier between the
thermal coating and environmental factors. The
thermal coating should be -able to: retain its
property for six months so.as to meet the |
parameter specified in (ii) above.

iv) Paper should. be compatible-with thermal printer
of speed 100 mm or more per second

Paper characteristics Image color Black

Pre-printing
number

serial

of

The serial numbering of -tickets should be
printed by foolproof machine numbering by
mechanical numbering boxes only. In no case
should there be any digital numbering like laser
inkjet or similar
Should be done by special indelible ink so that
numbers cannot be erased

4 Ink to be used _ for
numbering of tickets

Top of the ticket There should be a top band in full solid of 8 mm

+ 1 mm) width

Position of numbering of
tickets

i) Ticket numbering first four digits in 3 mm Height
(+0.5 mm)

ii) Ticket numbering last four digits in 4 mm Height
(+0.5 mm)

Running Matter Printed Hindi and English Railway Logo should
have 10% tint in the background of ticket on
front side and UV

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