Casino City's Casino Vendors Guide - 2014 Edition

8 Sponsored by CasinoCity’s CasinoVendorsGuide - Visit CasinoVendors.com today for current information A BOUTSLOT-TICKETS I ntroducingSlot-TicketsWorldwide— producer of theoriginal TITOpaper tickets I n 2000, the ticket in, ticket out (TITO) system, now the standard at casinos all over the world, d ebuted and revolutionized the g aming industry. Sl ot-Tickets helped launch the re volution in 1998, when it worked w ith Future Logic to develop the p aper used in IGT’s EZ Pay TITO t echnology. The Fiesta Casino in H enderson,Nevadawas thefirst to use IGT’s EZ Pay and Slot-Tickets paper. Sixteen years later, Slot- Tickets isstill the leadingsupplier for TITO tickets. The company was founded by Tom Mitchell and his wife, Susan. And although the WS Packaging Group bought Slot-Tickets, Susan andTom continue to run thecompany. “Slot-Tickets is a group company withinthelargerWSPackagingGroup of companies,” says Susan Mitchell, president of Slot-Tickets. “Our staff is autonomous and dedicated to only Slot-Ticket productions, which greatly enhances our focus on only Slot-Ticket customers and ticket manufacturing from proof to shipping.” Slot-Tickets began manufacturing its tickets in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and eventually added a plant in Phoenix to help serve a global market and provide a 100 percent backup facility. It currently serves billions of tickets printed in casinos around theworld. Oneof the underappreciated elementsof theTITO system ispaper. “We offer the best value in the worldwide market because we were the original producers of TITO tickets,” Mitchell says. “We developed and perfected the zero defect tolerancesexpected todayby all properties.” “Every production is tested many times during the actual press production,” says Mitchell, who handles sales for the company from their Memphis, Tennessee office. “After the real-time testing at (the) press, there is a two-stage quality assurance followupon the retained production samples from each job no matter how small or how big. These are retested inour labs at our twoproductionfacilitiesinGreenBay and Phoenix. In addition, random production retained samples are re- tested in greater scrutiny for paper fiber quality and thermal chemistry consistency.” The two production facilities in GreenBayandPhoenixarealsopart ofwhatmakesSlot-Ticketsunique. “We are the only producer with two redundant physical facilities,” says Mitchell. “Both Green Bay and Phoenix can interchange, at the touch of a keystroke, (and) produce the other’s products. We are seamlessly connected. If for any reason, let’s sayaweatherevent, the sisterplantcan takeoverproduction requirements immediately. Within each facility we have the ability to quickly bring on line additional production resources. “Paper is a natural living product and we have our issues from time to time to keep theproduct as near perfect as possible over billions upon billions of tickets that are soldworldwide,”adds TomMitchell, Managing Director of Special Projects. “We rely heavily on our A WORDFROMOURSPONSOR