Access To Professional Sports Team Events Improve For Season Ticket Holders

Customer:

The Porto Football Team, Portugal

Challenge:

The Porto Football Club sought a system to speed up entry into the stadium for its 20,000 season ticket holders.

Product:

Eltron's P300C (6 printers); P300F (2 printers). P300 Series printers come standard with Windows™ drivers and WindCard™ software. Their surprisingly small footprint and easy-loading, minimal maintenance design make desk-top operation simple and efficient. They print sharp, readable bar codes, graphics and text in less than five seconds. Optional features include magnetic stripe and Smart chip encoding.

All P Series on-demand plastic card printers offer sharp 300 dpi print resolution. Durable design features give you full color value or monochrome economy, and assure the portability necessary for on-demand personal identification card printing.

Use P300 printers to print:

• Membership cards
• Visitor and employee badges
• Identification and access control cards
• Student identification cards
  
  

Result:

With its P Series printers, Porto issues two types of card: one for club membership, the second for right of entry as season ticket holders for all events.

The membership cards, printed in color, show name, membership number, color photo, the club logo and membership termination date. The card for season ticket holders is pre-printed in color and is personalized in monochrome to identify the club member, membership number, seat number and date of expiration. Only the season ticket card is presented at the gate.

The two greatest advantages to this system are that access to events is expedited and members' records are easier to manage, including annual ticket renewal procedures.