TFT specialist and manufacturer Display Technology designed and manufactured custom 32" HIBRITE TFT solutions for Eurostar and the brand new opening of the Ebbsfleet International Fastrack railway station in Kent.

The displays offer excellent brightness, Contrast, and viewing angles and utilise Samsung's latest Digital Information Display (DID) technology with excellent brightness, super-wide viewing angles and amazing image clarity in a custom ruggedised housing, which is just what the Eurostar station required.  This combined with an industrial Single Board Computer (SBC) and Display Technology's high reliability Prisma II interface solution this solution was perfect and met the design spec. given to Display Technology.

Managing Director Chris Bartram commented "we are very proud to have delivered a high quality solution, to specification and on-time, despite extremely tight timescales. Plus to be involved with such an International brand is great."

Lock specialists Camlock Systems has launched its all-new website, which has the entire content available in French, German, Italian, Spanish and English.

The new website has over 2,000 web pages, 26 times more than Camlock’s previous site, and features comprehensive information on the company’s entire product range.  The site has been designed to be easy for users in three ways:  identifying the products that best match their requirements, contacting the company, and an intuitive navigation system for moving around the site.  All levels of users are catered for, from the first-time buyer of industrial locks requiring guidance, through to experienced buyers and specifiers who require detailed information such as dimensions, key operations and materials used in manufacturing.  

The site has a clean, uncluttered look and has been designed so that the web pages load quickly.  Plans are already in place to add further content that will be useful to users.  Also, Camlock aims to add further languages on the site before long. 

New salesman for mainland Europe
Further evidence of the company’s continuing sales growth in European markets is the appointment of Torquil Mackintosh to the position of European Sales Executive.  Torquil (40), has extensive sales experience, is fluent in French and German, speaks conversational Italian and has travelled widely throughout Europe and the Middle East.

Torquil held positions spanning export sales, UK sales and technical project management during a 13 year spell with Dzus Fasteners Ltd, where he acquired a comprehensive knowledge of fasteners and locks.  His most recent appointment was as Export Territory Manager for Loma Systems Ltd, the leader in food industry inspection systems, where he was responsible for a distributor network servicing a portfolio of blue chip customers.

Concerned about counterfeits but still want to use real coins or colourful tokens?

Digitall Coin Ltd officially launched at ATEI and ICE a new range of products specifically designed for the gaming market. The FreeFall® Coin and Token Acceptor family. This product family is based on a unique proprietary patented laser technology, consists of a 3,5 inch and 5,0 inch devices and is one of the fastest, safest and most precise coin and token detector against counterfeit and frauds in the market. Its specific design reduces the dirt deposition and the need for cleaning. The coin path makes the coin completely “free to fall” into its final destination. FreeFall®, thanks to its design, can really read up to 10 coins per second and provides anti fishing protocol too. "We believe that we are bringing to the Gaming market a technological “quantum leap” toward safety.

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Money Controls’ Chief Executive, Mike Innes, declared ICE “a big success for the company”, a comment based on both the number of visitors to its stand and their positive reaction.
The centrepiece of the stand was the Ardac Elite bill and ticket acceptor. Launched before last year’s show, Ardac Elite has now been extensively proven in the field and is enjoying unprecedented success with both OEMs and casino operators. So much so, that at the last count, there were over 30,000 units deployed worldwide.
Mike was particularly pleased with the welcome visitors gave to the new 4-way barcode reading option for Ardac Elite: “It’s frustrating, for customers and casino operators alike, when valid tickets are not accepted on first-time insertion; with this new option, whichever way a ticket is inserted Ardac Elite will read it.”
Mike regards a second new feature, the display on a PDA of a full-colour image of the last-note inserted, as equally important for casino operators: “With Ardac Elite, disputes can now be resolved in seconds, with no need to remove the cashbox: all floor staff need do is connect a PDA to the USB socket on the front of the Ardac Elite for instant proof of what note was inserted last.”
Last-note display and other advanced features are possible thanks to Ardac Elite’s unique image capture and data processing technology: a full-colour, whole image is taken of every bill and barcode ticket inserted.
“With first-time acceptance rates in excess of 97% for street grade notes and for barcode tickets, you can see why operators are delighted with Ardac Elite,” continued Mike. “On top of that, it has proven to be remarkably reliable and needs virtually no maintenance, maximising in-service availability.

Money Controls displays full range at IMA

From coin acceptance, coin payout and bill acceptance to payment integration, Money Controls has it covered, with the most comprehensive portfolio of payment products for the amusement industry. And all of these products will be on display at next month’s IMA show in Düsseldorf.
Money Controls has an enviable reputation in the amusement sector, gained by working closely with machine manufacturers for over forty years. This collaboration, coupled with Money Controls’ application engineering expertise, ensures that they deliver cost-effective, reliable products that perfectly meet the needs of each individual OEM.

The world-proven SR3 and SR5i coin acceptors will be on the Money Controls stand (No. 8a/G12).
These incorporate a host of innovations that guarantee security and trouble-free operation, such as full remote download capability and an encrypted communication protocol that takes security to new levels.
The long-serving Universal Hopper, renowned throughout the industry for its unbeatable reliability, will be displayed alongside the versatile Compact Hopper. With a wide range of bowls, the Compact Hopper offers a large capacity within a small footprint and can be fitted in many applications, including retrofit.

Ardac Elite, Money Controls’ latest bill acceptor, will be on show, together with the well-established Lumina and Lumina Rotor acceptors. Incorporating state-of-the-art image capture and data processing techniques, Ardac Elite delivers the highest first-time acceptance of both new and street-grade bills; this has resulted in increased cashbox take for all of the many operators around the world who have retrofitted Ardac Elite.

Completing the line-up will be PayLink, the USB integration module that dramatically reduces the time-to-market for PC-based machines. Supporting both Windows and Linux operating systems, PayLink simplifies the creation of software for PC-based gaming machines by integrating a variety of payment peripherals into new machine platforms.
Heino Schlichting, General Manager of Money Controls GmbH, is leading the company’s presence at IMA and is looking forward to meeting existing customers, as well as welcoming new visitors to the stand: “With such a comprehensive portfolio on display, we are sure to have something to interest you, whether it’s a single product or a complete payment solution.”