Abstract: The ticket presenter is mountable to a printer having a tear bar therein, for receiving a printed ticket, for pulling on that ticket in a controlled manner, for severing the ticket against the tear bar of the printer and for presenting the ticket to a customer. A paper inlet switch mounted inside the ticket presenter has a lever extending in the inlet path of the ticket presenter for monitoring the extent of a loop formed in the strip of ticket paper in the inlet path. A tension roller system is mounted on a downstream side of the paper inlet switch, and pulls on the strip of ticket paper with a speed that is controlled by the position of the lever of the paper inlet switch in the inlet path. The speed and functions of the ticket presenter are thereby synchronized to the speed and functions of the ticket printer.

Abstract: In the ticket printer, a ticket tray is mounted next to the infeed adapter of the printer mechanism for feeding blank tickets into the printer mechanism. The ticket tray is releasably mounted in a pullout module by means of a three point attachment comprising a button clip and a button pin. In another aspect of the invention, a ticket presenter has overlapping upper and lower plates defining a ticket delivery gap there between. The delivery gap has a photo sensor mounted therein, a mating bulge and cavity pair, and spikes cooperating with the bulge and cavity pair for effectively separating tickets from a strip of fan-fold tickets. In yet another feature of the present invention there is provided a communication link between the MCU and the PLD of the ticket printer for programming the PLD through the MCU using a personal computer.