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- How to see shows for FREE
- Be careful, this is illegal
-
- Ingredients
- Laser printer or inkjet printer
- Combo Draw/Paint software (Superpaint on the Mac)
- Ticket blanks
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- Instructions
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- 1. Obtain ticket blanks. You need to get tickets which have
- no show information printed on them. They must resemble real
- tickets or have the name of the ticket agency on it (like
- Ticketmaster). They must either be taken from a ticket
- distributor or counterfeitted with the help of a compliant
- print shop. If the blanks are coated with thermal ╥ink╙,
- then you can╒t use a laser printer.
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- 2. Tape a blank lengthwise onto a sheet of paper, making sure
- it is centered and square with the page. Tape only a
- millimeter or so on each end. Make around 20 photocopies.
- These are your ╥practice tickets.╙
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- 3. Use the paint/draw software to make a positioning grid for
- the info on the ticket. Your goal is to get fake ticket info
- onto the ticket blank; this grid will allow you to position
- the text. The grid should be drawn, not painted, as the
- painting layer will be used to generate text. Feed the
- photocopies thru the printer and adjust the grid until it
- lines up perfectly. Then throw some text onto the grid and
- see what it looks like. It is essential that you be able to
- get rid of the grid (you don╒t want _that_ printed on the
- ticket!)
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- 4. Save the file! Back it up! This is your template.
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- 5. Now the moment of truth. Print (on a clean sheet of
- paper) a copy of the positioning grid. Line up a ticket
- blank and tape it down taking care to tape no more than one
- millimeter or so on the front (leading) edge and the back
- edge. In the Draw/Paint program, paint up the fake ticket
- info (see below) and hide or delete the positioning grid.
- Print it out.
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- 6. If everything went ok, you now have a ticket. Congrats.
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- Tips
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- * Make tickets for shows with General Admission only. No
- seats! Besides, who wants to see a show in an arena.
-
- * It╒s best to have a real ticket for reference, to get event
- codes and the ticketspiel right. Don╒t worry if the ticket
- blank is a different color, the promoter or venue probably
- won╒t care.
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- * Don╒t feed thermal tickets through laser printers.
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- * If you use an inkjet printer, make sure the ink and ticket
- are compatible. Slick tickets will cause water based ink to
- blob up. Use waterproof ink carts on the Deskjet if
- possible.
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- * If you are questioned, say you bought the ticket from a
- scalper. If they won╒t let you in, find a scalper to sell
- the ticket to.
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