Custom Ticket Printing

Custom ticket printing

A ticket is a small printed piece carrying a large amount of trust. It has to be individually identifiable, hard enough to copy that it is not worth trying, and it has to scan or tear cleanly at a door with a queue behind it.

We print event tickets, raffle books, admission passes and drink tokens with sequential numbering, perforated stubs and security features where the value justifies them.

Numbering and control

Sequential numbering is the point of a ticket. Every piece carries a unique number generated from a data file, printed in one pass through variable data printing, so a run of fifty thousand uniquely numbered tickets takes no longer than fifty thousand identical ones.

Numbers can appear on both the ticket and its stub so the two halves stay matched after tearing, which is what makes reconciliation at the end of an event possible. Barcodes and QR codes are generated the same way when tickets are scanned rather than counted.

Perforation and stubs

The perforation has to tear cleanly with one hand at a door. Too light and it separates in a pocket, too heavy and it tears through the ticket. Position matters too: leave enough stub for the number to survive the tear and enough ticket for the holder to keep something worth keeping.

Security features

• Sequential numbering is the baseline and stops the simplest duplication
• Foil stamping cannot be reproduced on a copier or an office printer
• Specialty and metallic inks that do not scan or photocopy accurately
• Heavy or unusual stock that is obviously wrong when faked
• Perforated and die cut shapes that a home printer cannot match

How far you go depends on the face value. A free community event needs numbering; a ticket worth two hundred dollars justifies foil.

Formats we print

Event and concert tickets, raffle and cloakroom books bound in sets, admission passes, drink and food tokens, parking permits, and numbered credentials for conferences. Booklet-bound raffle tickets are bound through bindery and finishing.

For conference work these usually run alongside badges, lanyard inserts and programs. See convention printing.