How to Efficiently Track Voucher or Coupon for Offline Marketing Events
NCR voucher book printing offered by Colour Waves provides businesses and organizations a convenient method to issue vouchers, coupons, tickets, and other transactional documents to customers in a carbonless copy format. This allows the issuer to retain a copy of each voucher or coupon issued for their own records.
Understanding NCR Voucher Books
What are NCR voucher books?
NCR stands for “no carbon required.” NCR paper is a coated paper product with multiple layers that allow content written or printed on the top sheet to transfer onto the sheets below without the use of carbon paper. This creates an instant duplicate record of the voucher or coupon.
NCR paper voucher books contain various plies of these carbonless copy papers bound together into a pad format. The most common configurations are:
– 2 Part NCR: Contains an original top white sheet and a canary yellow copy below.
– 3 Part NCR: Contains an original white sheet on top then a canary yellow and pink copy sheet.
– 4 Part NCR: Contains white, canary, pink and goldenrod copy sheets.
When pressure from writing or printing is applied to the top sheet, the image transfers through microscopic encapsulated dye capsules onto the sheet below. This continues through all the sheets creating multiple copies simultaneously.
Common Uses of NCR Voucher Books
NCR voucher books have many applications across various industries. Some of the most common uses include:
Retail and Consumer Vouchers/Coupons:
- Retail stores can issue vouchers or coupons to customers as discounts toward future purchases. The merchant retains a copy for auditing purposes.
- Restaurants use voucher books instead of handwritten customer copy receipts. The carbonless copy acts as the customer receipt.
- Salons and spas use vouchers that clients redeem for hair, nails and skin services.
- Entertainment venues provide free or discounted ticket vouchers to patrons.
Business Receipts and Invoicing:
- Tradespeople like electricians, plumbers and builders use NCR receipt books to provide instant invoices to customers after jobs.
- Auto mechanics and repair shops can issue itemised work orders and accept payments.
- Field service businesses can invoice onsite without returning to the office.
Accounting and Record Keeping:
- Multi-part NCR formats create built-in paper trails for audits and accounts payable.
- The copies can feed into filing systems for transactions, work orders and inventory.
Why Choose NCR Voucher Printing from Colour Waves?
If you are looking to print NCR carbonless copy voucher books for your Dubai business, Colour Waves offers several advantages:
High Quality Printing and Materials
We utilise offset printing presses and source premium quality coated carbonless papers in various weights from 70 gsm to 150 gsm. Our experienced pressmen are skilled at working with NCR stock and achieving consistently clear, high definition prints batch to batch. The papers and printing easily handle heavy use – wet ink stamps, erasable pens, overwriting etc. The finished pads also have scoring between vouchers to make it simple to tear them away.
Customisation of Format, Design and Data
Our NCR voucher printing service offers extensive options to fully brand and customise pads to match your specific business requirements:
- Design templates that align to your brand identity with logos, fonts, colours and imagery. Add illustrative icons relevant to your industry like barber scissors or cooking elements.
- Choose from standard or fully custom layouts that position copy, legal terms and signature areas.
- Print titles like "Work Order," "Ticket Voucher," "Coupon" etc appropriate to the intended use. Number the vouchers sequentially or in duplicate series.
- Personalise pads further by overprinting customer data like name, address etc via mail merge. Automatically print progressive coupon codes, PINs or claim numbers.
- Select paper size, voucher dimensions and number of NCR copies needed (2, 3 or 4 part). Bind into pads of 10, 25, 50 or 100 vouchers.
- Perforate or score pads between vouchers for easy tear out. Drill holes to keep vouchers organised in a ring binder.
- Number the voucher sets and include colour coded tab dividers for different departments.
Convenience
We make NCR voucher printing highly convenient by managing the entire process in house at our Dubai production facility. Our helpful customer service team assists with design, provides proofs for approval, schedules production and delivers your completed order. We stock the full range of paper so most jobs print without delay. Need a super urgent print run? Our digital presses can turn small batches fast.
How the Colour Waves NCR Voucher Printing Process Works
The procedure for getting high quality carbonless copy voucher books printed by Colour Waves is straightforward:
1. Initial Consultation
- Reach out to Colour Waves via phone, email or by visiting our office.
- Our customer service representative will discuss your specific business and needs for the vouchers. Important details include quantity required, number of multipart copies, usage (receipts, coupons etc.)
- We establish a budget and timeline for the job.
2. Design and Layout
- We create custom NCR voucher designs and text layouts based off your branding and preferences. This is included free as part of our service.
- Approve a final printable PDF proof before printing.
3. Printing and Production
- Using top quality offset presses and NCR coated stocks, we accurately print the voucher sets to your approved design.
- Our finishing department scores, binds and drills the vouchers sets to specification.
4. Delivery
- The completed order is wrapped and delivered to your preferred ship to address.
- Turnaround is typically 5-7 business days from approval of final proof. Rush orders available.
By working closely with clients upfront to understand objectives, Colour Waves reliably produces NCR voucher books suited to the business application. We assist from initial quantity estimates, through design stages, production scheduling and final delivery. Colour Waves has dedicated customer service representatives ready to answer any other voucher printing questions you may have. Call or email us for a personalized quote tailored to your needs and get started designing your custom carbonless copy vouchers.
FAQ's
NCR multi-copy vouchers have extremely diverse uses across retail, food and beverage, ticketing, trades services, healthcare, warehousing, equipment rental and more. The built-in duplicate copies are useful anywhere transactions take place and both parties need documentation.
Our offset print process combined with premium NCR stocks produces an extremely durable image able to withstand heavy use – wet ink stamps, erasable pens, highlighters, overwriting etc. The coatings also resist smudging, moisture and light fading. You can expect years of service life from a printed NCR pad with Colour Waves.
Basic voucher books finish with scoring between each voucher for hand tear out. Optional bindings include wire-o twin loop, plastic coil (flat or square) and ring bindings. Other finishes like drill holes, numbering, perforations, laminating and padding can be specified. Talk to our team about formats optimal for your particular application.
Yes, by merging external databases at print time, we can dynamically print changing information like customer name, invoice numbers, codes and other text/graphics specific to each voucher set. This adds further customization and security. Minimum quantities apply so discuss requirements with our representative.
Avoid extremes of temperature and humidity. Do not store pads in direct sunlight or near open flames or heat sources which may prematurely activate the encapsulated dye in the paper. Keep in a locked, clean and tidy environment to prevent loss and damage. We recommend using within 1 year and reordering new pads to keep details current.
This depends on selected paper size, number of copies/plies, and text size used. As an example, on an A5 2 part voucher printed double sided, approximately 500 words of 10pt text will comfortably fit on the front and back. Reduce content for 3-4 part copies. Inform our designers what details need capturing so we develop an optimal layout.
On our digital printing equipment we can produce short run NCR orders of 250-500 pads within 2-3 days if required. Larger offset print runs take 5-7 days under normal circumstances. For critical orders we go the extra distance for customers and have been known to deliver thousands of pads within 48-72 hours!