Certain flight documents (e.g., boarding passes, baggage tags, etc.) are necessary for passengers who travel by air. They are usually represented on thermal sensitive papers, and every passenger should have them at the airport before flight departure. Therefore, airports, airlines or ground handlers must implement appropriate printers to print boarding passes and bag tags based on passenger information available in DCS solutions. DCS.aero has provided a complete list of printers used in airports. This list assists people who intend to choose appropriate printers.
Certain flight documents (e.g., boarding passes, baggage tags, etc.) are necessary for passengers who travel by air. They are usually represented on thermal sensitive papers, and every passenger should have them at the airport before flight departure. Therefore, airports, airlines or ground handlers must implement appropriate printers to print boarding passes and bag tags based on passenger information available in DCS solutions.
Read MoreWhen an airport is operated by shared passenger processing systems (CUTE/CUPPS and CUSS), the chosen printer must meet the relevant IATA Technical Peripheral Specifications (TPS) and AEA standards barcode labelling (BCBP) for printing PDF417 barcode.
Printer-producing companies (e.g., Epson , Custom, SNBC, IER, Unimark) present airline printers with different features and capabilities. The following features are mainly exercised to separate between them:
Read More1. Printing boarding pass As mentioned before, the printer which can meet the certified standards and have the ability to produce a barcoded physical copy of the boarding pass at the airport includes the printing boarding pass feature. 2. Printing bag tag The printer, which can meet the certified standards, and have the ability to produce a physical copy of the baggage tag, includes the printing boarding pass feature. 3. AEA firmware AEA (Association of European Airlines) firmware is a unique hard/software generation that allows users to detect and interact with printers that operate the printing process in a specified AEA standard. In this kind of printer, PECTAB (parametric tables), a set of data structure formats defined by the AEA (Association of European Airlines), is loaded into the AEA firmware by application software, usually during initialization. PECTAB determines how host data appears as output, or is read as input. This unique format is utilized for communicating information between the computers and locally connected and remote ticket readers/printers. PECTABs are set up in the host and sent to the printer to print and encode ATBs based on incoming data messages from the airline departure control system. 4. Kiosk printer The airports, which are operated by CUSS (Common Use Self Service), require special printers integrated into relevant kiosks. This kind of printer is relatively compact and cannot be used stand-alone. 5. RFID (Radio-frequency identification) The printer, which has the Radio-frequency identification (RFID) feature, uses an RF encoder to transfer the necessary data into RFID chips embedded in smart labels. The electronically stored information tags are then read by RFID readers, which use electromagnetic fields to identify and track tags attached to objects automatically. Unlike a barcode, the RFID tags don’t need to be within the reader’s line of sight.
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