Printing Numbered Tickets

Why don't you just buy a roll for a few bucks.....seems much easier....as for cutting paper I have a few of those hobby slicers....for more detailed cutting you need a machine, like maybe a cricut....or other programmable cutter....

Thank you. Yes, my printer would take a roll, but the request was for tickets on thin card. I have a Cricut-type shape cutter but that would not solve the collation problem.

I would just deal them out like in solitaire...make a game of it....of course you might have to cheat a little, haha....

8 rows of 9 tickets....1, 10, 19, 28, 37, 46, 55, 64 are your column heads...

Good idea

1) Portrait layout in lieu of landscape gives 4 rows of three columns - strips become when sheared 1, 2, 3; then 4, 5, 6...

2) Keep your landscape, then advance the numbers in columns instead of rows.

Thank you. Yes, numbering in columns would have been slightly easier. I could have 1,2,3 down the first column of the top page and 4,5,6 down the second page. After cross-cutting that first strip there would still be some heaps to sort.

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For the past 20 years I've been doing something similar with a word processor--we wanted some text describing the event: date/time, location, sponsor, etc. I used the page number as the ticket number. I print six tickets per page. Yes, after cutting I have six stacks that, in sequence, I pull a ticket from and the staple them in "books" of ten for selling by members. I usually print 600.

I sometimes wish I could have a bit more control over the page numbers but the process doesn't take that much time--it's just mind numbing.

Thanks. Yes, I'm getting the idea. The scheme of printing multiple word processor pages on a single sheet of paper had not occurred to me.

As I see it, you got one of two choices :

A. Go to a local stationary store and get a roll or a box of premade numbered tickets, thus saving your self from the " nightmare " , and the resulting anxiety.

B. Print the tickets, cut them up and have someone else collate them, thus saving yourself from the " nightmare " .

Note: there are many scholarly articles on : counting anxiety disorder.

Do these tickets really need to be collated?

That is to ask, is the sequential distribution truly important to the intended use of the tickets?

Replying to both #10 and #11, yes, I could have left someone else to do the collating, but I like to provide a complete services, even with a rush job.

Perhaps, if you used 4 rows by four columns, and tinkered with the row-heights and the column-widths, to make the printed area = (4 x (11"/4) x ( 4 x 8.5"/4 ), and made the margins all zero, you would not have any outside edges to trim, just ( 3 x 3 = 9 ) inside edges to be trimmed...

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Thank you. I se what you are getting at, but guillotining a heap of A4 sheets is only a minute or two, whereas collating took quite a time.

Yes, because members of the organization will be selling them and receive a fraction of each sale, it would be a nightmare to track if the series of tickets was random rather than 1:10, 11:20, ...

Many details of this project are being withheld from the forum.

For all we know they are being drawn from a hat.

Think about it this way. If you went to a printer and received a bunch of tickets out of numerical sequence would you not begin to wonder whether all the tickets were there?

The word "collating" did appear in post #1, so the ordering did have some importance at that stage.