Lori, Here's my thoughts on your problem:
1) Have the static elements of the tickets and ID's printed professionally by a printer on blanks - it will be much cheaper than paying for ink outright. It will also take less time to print. Maybe a perforated blank with the ticket on once side and the badge on the other. I know this is what SXSW does, for example. 2) When the registrant arrives, send their information to the printer where the blanks are pre-loaded and print their personal information, logo, and picture out on the blank. A separate color logo (which I am assuming is what you mean) throws a wrench into the whole deal, because it means the printer hardware is much more costly as is the cost - per - print job. I might suggest doing a cost breakdown for the customer on color vs. greyscale logos factoring the cost of ink and hardware capable of handling both color printing and an acceptable page per minute rate for registering 3000 applicants in a single night. On an event of that scale the difference probably runs into the thousands. Another option would be to print the badges out in advance and file them and then just use blanks for the tickets where the printing will only be done in B/W. Pull the badge from the file and print the ticket out at check-in. HTH, Jon On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Lori Stone wrote: > Here is the situation: > There is a conference in March. The customer wants to have an > application where when the registrants come in they can immediately > print out their information, tickets to events (maybe up to 5 events > at the most) and their ID tag (name and logo) First of all we need > to have a printer that can handle a huge load (most likely 3,000 > registrants a night) and of course the logos have to be in color > (ugh!) We are trying to figure out the best way to have the layout. > I have never done a conference like this before. If anyone has and > has any advice for me that would be great. I am sure more > information is needed but I wanted to get the general idea of what I > was looking for. Thanks in advance for any advice/recommendations. > > Lori > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:295230 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
