A Raleigh company has come up with a way to order electronic tickets and print them at your home or office. Instead of waiting for your tickets to be mailed, you print them yourself. Once the ticket is billed to the browser, the user prints the ticket. The important part is the two-dimensional bar code. The ticket holder takes the whole piece of paper to the event.
Confirmation goes over a wireless network to the ticketing database.
It makes a noise when it decodes. It's very, very simple. The company has plans for a quick expansion. We're finalists for a movie deal to sell 600 million tickets a year online. The bar code information is strongly encrypted to ensure security of personal information.