NCR 2ST Thermal Printing for Travel Datasheet

Minimize costs while extending your brand

NCR’s patented 2ST™, two-sided thermal printing technology enables airlines and airports to print on both the front and the back of a thermal document, such as a boarding pass. With 2ST thermal printing you can reduce paper costs, minimize your environmental impact and improve your promotional capabilities all through one technology. This enhanced functionality is standard on all NCR Self Check-In Kiosk solutions and is unique to NCR Travel Solutions.

Reduce costs
Significantly lower your overall consumables expense with the ability to print on both sides of thermal paper. By printing a boarding pass on the front and a bag check receipt in the back of the document, your paper requirements are reduced by up to 50%. By using less paper, your cost to buy, ship and store that paper is reduced by as much as 20%.

Improve customer satisfaction
Increase print speed and make transactions faster by printing passenger documents simultaneously. This means more passengers can be served in less time reducing lines and alleviating customer frustrations.

Increase promotional capability
2ST printing allows you to print customized, one-to-one personalized messages. Promotional messaging can be tied to the customer, flight, class of service, frequent flyer member or even the time of day. You can drive increased revenues for ancillary services using your existing boarding pass document. Printing on both sides provides more space and visibility for promotions or other customer directed messaging of information.

Reduce your environmental impact
Decrease paper consumption by up to 50% with NCR’s 2ST technology. Using less paper results in less direct waste of paper, and the reduced use of plastic and chemicals. In addition, less energy and water is consumed during the production and distribution of paper.