My google-foo has failed me. I thought what I was looking for would be easy to find.
Here’s some backstory.
I’m selling tickets to a multi-day film festival. Last year I sold daily passes and used different colored tyvek wristbands, but this year I’m selling individual showings. I designed the tickets and to save a little money I am only printing 4 sets of tickets, one for each day of the festival. Since I will be showing multiple movies each day I want to hand stamp the movie start time on the ticket in a space I have set aside for that purpose.
I’ve been trying to find a ink handstamp that could be set to 11:00 am or 3:45 pm etc. I assume that such a stamp exists, but so far I haven’t been able to find one. The stamp size I need is #2 if that matters.
If I could find one with the date and time on it I suppose I could blank out the date part, or I could use the date part although I have the date already printed on the ticket stock.
No but the movie marathon I go to takes your drivers license when you come in and marks the time, then they charge you for the movies that have shown while you were there, when you pick t up.
You could have a custom one made for you. I’ve used this place before for custom stamps and IIRC, it turned out just fine.*
Also, on Amazon I see stamps like this or this that are just a row of numbers, so you could use that and just have it say 1100 or 345 and see how that looks.
*If that’s a consideration, I’d want to double check that that’s the place I used and I’d want to see what stamp(s) I had them make before I totally commit to saying I liked them.
I thought of something like that, but since someone might buy 3 movies on the same day I want them to know what time each of the 3 movies start.
If I could print the times of the 5 movies being shown on a given day and just hole punch the one they purchased for that ticket that might work. Something to consider.
When I read the earlier post (without seeing the this one), I had it in my head that you would print both (or, I guess, all) the times and use the hole punch to remove the time(s) they weren’t going to. Honestly, I have no idea why that popped into my head first, but it did. Probably something about avoiding confusion. If you just remove one time, there’s no ‘wait, is this punched right’ or people being able to play dumb and see multiple showings. There’s only one time on the ticket.
Anyways, if you use that method, you could have as many times on the ticket as you want and remove the ones they aren’t going to.
Maybe if Row 1 has all of the times & Row 2 is where you punch out the one they purchased. Punching out they show they purchased (so they can’t see the time) is a bad idea. Even my idea isn’t great if you’re punching fast as you can mis-punch over the time.
A quick search found this stamp at Staples for < $40. See what else they have that might be even better.
They have standard time stamps that are circular with 12 or 24 hours around the edge and a arrow in the center that points to the appropriate hour/half-hour.
But those take up more room on a ticket, can only mark 1 time, and aren’t designed to let you easily change the time for each customer.
You can also get line date-time stamps that print something like Aug 20 2017 11:45 – they have bands you can rotate to adjust the date/time. Usually they have a blank spot on the band so you could just set the date part to be blank. But again, these aren’t really that easy to adjust the bands for each customer – they are designed to be set once and then changed at each new hour or so. But they would probably work, depending on how fast you need to process each customer.
Both the rotary and line stamps are standard ones from rubber stamp companies, so should be fairly inexpensive.
I think this kind of stamp is for numbering pages/sheets. We use one at my work for numbering official copies. Generally it will self-increment. Not really intended for stamping the same number a bunch of times in a row, or at the very least it isn’t that easy to change the numbers… I’d vote against this one.
This is the best answer. There’s no way for somebody to help themselves to an extra show. If instead you punch out the one(s) they’ve paid for, they can always punch out another one themselves. yes, it’s harder if you use a funny-shaped punch and your ticket-takers are diligent. But not that much harder.