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[Tony]

Surely this is just going to slow things down, as normally you can place your money, ask for your ticket and then move out of the way to the ticket machine and wait for it to print while the next passenger is asking for their ticket and placing their money.

This is especially useful on some Tridents in particular where some ticket machines seem to take a while to print the ticket.

Why are they trialling this then? Are there any advantages? I presume when the buses came down from Dundee they had the usual set-up anyway so does seem a little strange to me

Dundee already uses the 'new' system so these buses do not need conversions. The three big advantages are
The tickets are heat sensitive so they do not need replacement ink rollers
The printing is much faster
Heat sensitive printed tickets do not get lighter/unreadable as the oller runs dry

[andy]

They're not like those till receipts that if you fold up just go black are they?

[Ashley]

Are the ticket sizes going to change with these new machines