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TRANSACT TECHNOLOGIES’ NEW ITHACA® BRAND EPIC 950™ SLOT MACHINE PRINTER BRINGS INNOVATION TO THE CASINO FLOOR Ithaca® brand Epic 950™ Thermal Ticket Printer combines revolutionary design features with dynamic marketing capabilities Wallingford, CT, January 12, 2005 – TransAct Technologies Incorporated, a leading producer of transaction-based printers for customers worldwide under the Ithaca® brand name, introduces its new Epic 950™ thermal gaming printer to the European market at the 2005 International Casino Exhibition (ICE), London, January 25-27, 2005. The Epic 950™, offering a host of new features and benefits and delivering unprecedented advancements in casino printing capabilities, will be on view at distributor’s Eurocoin Ltd.’s stand, #3325. TransAct’s new Epic 950™ combines ground-breaking marketing capabilities, sophisticated technical advances, and robust engineering in a single printer. The Epic 950™ enables real-time, customer-specific promotions right on the casino floor by providing connectivity between the slot game and the casino’s player tracking system. Using TransAct’s new patent-pending dual-port interface, the Epic 950™ enables the printing of dynamic marketing messages driven by the slot floor central system, and also the player’s voucher driven by the slot machine. Slot tickets now become vibrant, eye-catching marketing vehicles for maximum impact and player retention, thanks to two-colour thermal printing on the new ithaColor™ two-colour paper. Extensive user-definable memory is used to store graphics, fonts and character sets to provide countless ticket or coupon layout options. Easy graphic downloads and firmware updates are accomplished via the new secure imPort™ information management interface. In addition to these powerful marketing capabilities, the Epic 950™ incorporates technical benefits to enhance the player experience and simplify on-floor service. A pioneer in coinless gaming, TransAct has also added TicketBurst™ technology as a key feature to eliminate potential player interference and ensure maximum machine uptime. This technological advancement allows for the completion of all printing operations before presenting the detached game voucher or promotion to the slot player. Other features included in the new Epic 950™ are HotSwap QDT™ (Quick Disconnect Technology), which enables easy printer exchange by slot technicians on the floor of the casino, even while the game is powered on; a smart suite of features and tools that includes proactive printer and ticket printing status reporting to the slot machine; and USB capability for compatibility with games of the future. And of course, the Epic 950™ offers the same form factor and is code compatible with industry standards to facilitate easy integration. Jon Berkley, TransAct Technologies’ Senior Vice President and Business Manager of Worldwide Gaming, said, “The Epic 950™ does what no other printer can do. Based on our research of the needs of casino operators, slot technicians, and OEMs, TransAct has developed a printer that provides the most powerful solutions for the gaming industry. The Epic 950™ revolutionizes slot printing by combining a number of advanced patent-pending design features, technologies, and marketing tools that address the current needs and future plans of casino operators, all in one great product.” About TransAct Technologies Incorporated TransAct designs, develops, manufactures and markets transaction-based printers under the ITHACA® and MAGNETEC® brand names. In addition, the company markets related consumables, spare parts and service. The Company's printers are used worldwide to provide receipts, tickets, coupons, register journals and other documents. The Company focuses on the following vertical markets: point-of-sale (POS), and gaming and lottery. All of TransAct's products are manufactured in ISO 9001 certified facilities. Visit www.transact-tech.com for more information. About Eurocoin, Ltd. Eurocoin is one of Europe's leading suppliers of products for the amusement and gaming industries with sales of around £8 million per annum. Visit www.eurocoin.co.uk, for further information, or contact sales@eurocoin.co.uk. |
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