BSAVA Save Valuable Resources using the TSP800 from DED

In a drive to implement a more cost effective and efficient ticketing system, Gloucestershire based British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) has standardised on the TSP800 thermal printer from DED Limited. With over 7,000 delegates attending the annual BSAVA conference held in Birmingham, the TSP800 is being used to print delegate name badges, lunch vouchers and lecture tickets.

It was identified that the previous ticketing system was costing too much time and money, so the BSAVA purchased 7 TSP800's from DED which were installed at the end of 2004. The previous system involved printing blank tickets and vouchers, making assumptions as to how many delegates would attend each year. Sticky name labels were then printed and attached as appropriate. Every year hundreds of tickets went to waste and double the amount of paper actually needed was used.

Choosing the TSP800 because it gave the perfect ticket size and provided the opportunity to use a single standard pre-printed ticket stock, the BSAVA now prints tickets and vouchers on demand as delegates register, ensuring that time and paper are used more efficiently.

Taking full advantage of the features available, the BSAVA are using the TSP800 to automatically cut each ticket to the required length as defined by the amount of text it contains. To keep tickets for each delegate together and avoid any individual tickets or vouchers being misplaced, the TSP800 is being used to perform a partial cut between tickets with the same delegate name and a full cut when the delegate name changes.

Finding DED on the internet, Carole Haille, Central Support Manager at the BSAVA commented that working with DED was "a good experience, information required was forthcoming and extra support provided promptly."

Founded in 1957, the BSAVA has 5,500 members and exists to promote high scientific and educational standards of small companion animal medicine and surgery in practice, teaching and research. The majority of members work in practice and represent over a third of the working veterinary surgeons in the UK.

A highly flexible printer, the TSP800 features a scalable Raster driver which can scale an A4 page down on to the TSP800's 112mm wide paper, 150mm per second print speed, logo store for company branding, compact footprint with wall mount option, drop in and print easy paper loading and USB, Serial, Parallel or Ethernet interface options.