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• RL-RANDOMLOGIC

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  I am getting ready to buy a new printer and wanted to ask if anyone here uses a printer

  to print bet slips.  The one I have now can print them out but makes mistakes and does

  not feed properly.  Any suggestions would be great but I would really like to find someone

  who has used a brand/model with success.

  RL

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• tiggs95

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by RL-RANDOMLOGIC on Aug 4, 2011

  I am getting ready to buy a new printer and wanted to ask if anyone here uses a printer

  to print bet slips.  The one I have now can print them out but makes mistakes and does

  not feed properly.  Any suggestions would be great but I would really like to find someone

  who has used a brand/model with success.

  RL

  ??...Go to any store that sells lottery tickets and grab a handful of bet slips of all the game there free!...

                                                            Pure luck
• CARBOB

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by RL-RANDOMLOGIC on Aug 4, 2011

  I am getting ready to buy a new printer and wanted to ask if anyone here uses a printer

  to print bet slips.  The one I have now can print them out but makes mistakes and does

  not feed properly.  Any suggestions would be great but I would really like to find someone

  who has used a brand/model with success.

  RL

  RL,

  I don't use a printer at the moment, but I use to use an HP All-In-One. Don't remember model, but I'm sure they only improved the newer ones. The one I had worked great, with only one problem. Don't try printing 100's of tkts at same time.
• jimmy4164

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  Quote: Originally posted by RL-RANDOMLOGIC on Aug 4, 2011

  I am getting ready to buy a new printer and wanted to ask if anyone here uses a printer

  to print bet slips.  The one I have now can print them out but makes mistakes and does

  not feed properly.  Any suggestions would be great but I would really like to find someone

  who has used a brand/model with success.

  RL

  I printed high quality payslips years ago programming in Postscript.  Even dot-matrix printers with well inked ribbons filled the bill. Many printers understand it.  Your software is the most important aspect of what you want to do.  Have fun!

  http://www.museweb.com/ag/ps/about_ps.html

  https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1b44a2cf4ba778d83862568250053649f

  (Drivers)

  http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=pdrv&platform=win
• jimmy4164

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  Quote: Originally posted by jimmy4164 on Aug 4, 2011

  I printed high quality payslips years ago programming in Postscript.  Even dot-matrix printers with well inked ribbons filled the bill. Many printers understand it.  Your software is the most important aspect of what you want to do.  Have fun!

  http://www.museweb.com/ag/ps/about_ps.html

  https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1b44a2cf4ba778d83862568250053649f

  (Drivers)

  http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=pdrv&platform=win

  P.S.  For examples, take the HP Link at the IBM site and search for PostScript.
• RL-RANDOMLOGIC

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  tiggs

  I need a printer to fill out the numbers not print the tickets, sorry for any confusion.

  RL

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• RL-RANDOMLOGIC

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  I have 3 different HP printers but they don't feed the tickets correctly.   I  was thinking that there must

  be a printer that has an adjustment just for betstrips.  I wrote a program to print the tickets but the

  main problem with it was that each batch of tickets I would pick up are cut a little different.  This places

  the number blocks at a different position on the ticket top to bottom.  What i started doing was getting

  a whole package of about 500 bet slips at a time.  If the feed would have worked correctly then it would

  have worked well.  I am hitting JP's  in 100 to 150 lines a few times each month and may start playing

  this many tickets and hope the lower prizes fund my play.  It may be a month or so before I start because

  I am still testing in real time but wanted to have everything ready before I start. What is the model ## of

  the printer your using.

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• RL-RANDOMLOGIC

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  Thanks, I will check them out.

   

  Rl

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• diamondpalace

  

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   Are you getting ready to purchase 1,000 Powerball tickets? ;)
• LottoAce

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by diamondpalace on Aug 7, 2011

   Are you getting ready to purchase 1,000 Powerball tickets? ;)

  I could probably find enough people to chip in to get a 1000 tickets
  but I wouldn't want to fill out the slips. and I don't do QP's

  "know your limitations, but excede your expectations"
• diamondpalace

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by LottoAce on Aug 7, 2011

  I could probably find enough people to chip in to get a 1000 tickets
  but I wouldn't want to fill out the slips. and I don't do QP's

  If I can find people for 1K tickets, I'll fill them out myself. Would take all day though...;)
• Longarm

  

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  You might want to check with your state's regulations concerning playslips.  I know that in Texas any slips that are filled in by printers or any other means than by hand are invalid.  I'd hate for you to match the numbers and have a claim denied because of invalid playslips.  If you do win, and your state prohibits non-hand-filled playslips, you might want to destroy all of your printed ones just in case there's suspicion and an investigation.
• RL-RANDOMLOGIC

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  Longarm

  Have you ever checked the reason behind this restriction, seems a little odd to me.  Maybe it is to avoid

  someone claiming a misprinted ticket as a winner.  I will have to check to see if MO. has such a rule but

  this is the first time I have heard it.

  Thanks

  RL

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• RL-RANDOMLOGIC

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  Quote: Originally posted by diamondpalace on Aug 7, 2011

   Are you getting ready to purchase 1,000 Powerball tickets? ;)

  diamonpalace

  Not a power ball player, sometimes I do buy a QP when it reaches a large jp but the odds

  are just to great for me to attempt system play. 

  RL

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• Longarm

  

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  Longarm

  Have you ever checked the reason behind this restriction, seems a little odd to me.  Maybe it is to avoid

  someone claiming a misprinted ticket as a winner.  I will have to check to see if MO. has such a rule but

  this is the first time I have heard it.

  Thanks

  RL

  I recall when the Texas lottery was new a group tried to buy every possible combination of numbers.  This was at a time when the odds were much better and the jackpot was high.  If I recall correctly, they spent millions of dollars and didn't win the jackpot.  I think the rule is meant to prevent such schemes.

  The Oklahoma lottery (I read through their rules once) prohibits a retailer from knowingly selling anyone a combination of tickets that would ensure a win (or something similar to that).  Texas may have a similar rule, but I haven't seen it.