You know Michigan is broke!   Think that there was to many winners here

The machines are probaly  to cut down on some that money going out.

Hopefully they will generate more winners and have the opposite effect

They just got some kind of new terminals in Penna., also. Last time we were over there the tickets are on different paper, and not as "dotty" as before, and the game logo is printed on the ticket. They were having all sorts of problems before, where papers would either jam or not register or the play-ahead would wig out. Here in nj they prefer to live in the past with dull dot-matrix on dark pink paper that is difficult to read in other than direct sunlight. I kind of like the old school dot matrix, takes me back to VIC 20 days, but not the pink paper.

I'm a little confused bcuz I think that the lottery should be keeping it alive. Did you ever go to there website and see the payout it is such a joke. And I think that just about any1 will agree with me in repeat city that there hard to beat and win if your not paying attn., and there are far more people who are playing who aren't paying attn.

They are quieter because of far fewer moving parts - especially printer pins.

I think the "don't expose to heat" warnings are simply for additional piece of mind. The requirements for "new" thermal paper require vendors to submit the paper to prolonged heat and cold. I mean, I wouldn't put one on my dashboard in the middle of summer and then go in to a movie...but they should be pretty rugged.

Whoever thought of that paper was a genius. I think that it is the same paper that most store use today. Even if you keep your receipt but if you don't keep it in the right place it will fade the bar code and or date and that's like not having a receipt at all. I think it's just another conspiracy theory to keep more money in their pockets. Oh don't put it in your pop cup holder either. LOL

Anyone concerned about lottery tickets being printed on thermal paper, there is no need for concern.  Many state lotteries use thermal paper.

One state near to me that uses thermal paper is Delaware, and if anything I find them to be much more readable than my own state, which uses the traditional dot matrix pinting method.

Thermal printers don't suffer from the same barely-readable ink problems that happen when the store neglects to change the printer ribbon.  Who hasn't seen that problem before?  I've had tickets printed so lightly that the machine could not scan them.  You would never have that issue with a thermal printer.

My personal opinion is that the switch to thermal is a good thing for Michigan.

Tell me about it, even better is when they don't bother changing the ribbon for so long that when you buy a ticket it only shows up as being half there where not only are the numbers not readable but neither is the bar code or the uhh "serial number" or whatever it's called. Can't wait for when these new machines make it to my area and I hope it's soon.

The money saved by not changing ribbons might be just enough to save the economy! As for the thermal paper it's nothing that new, it's been around as long as the old-school Fax machines, and it would be interesting to have the "fade-away" timed for when the ticket expires; receipts like that I have fade about 6 months to a year... but I will suggest this: scan-in or photograph your tickets so in case that did happen you could at least show them a copy they could get the time and date from. The new ones do print that. The only possible problem is it's near where the draw date is so it could confuse some people.

I want to say New York was the longest state? Of course I'l have to call Alex Trebic of Jepordy to see if that's  the right answer.

that's my final answer :)