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Receipt copy colors
« on: August 06, 2013, 04:03:42 PM »
Receipt forms often have a yellow, or yellow and pink carbon copy sheets.  Is there a convention for which color form is for what purpose?
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2013, 04:09:47 PM »
I imagine original goes to purchaser, one color goes to whomever processes the order (such as pulling an item from a lumber yard) and the last one goes to accounting.
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2013, 05:43:43 PM »
A vertical blue or magenta streak on the receipt means the cash register is about out of paper.
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2013, 05:55:50 PM »
No receipt means it's really out of paper.
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2013, 07:35:07 PM »
 :facepalm:  THAT 'splains it!
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2013, 09:55:33 PM »
Traditionally pink goes to Accounts Receivable and canary goes to customer.  You can thank NCR for that - based on the clarity of the copy, which has quite a bit to do with the contrast between the paper and the NCR imprint.  Other colors are assigned to other lost corners of Hell as the particular company sees fit.

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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2013, 10:10:17 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on August 06, 2013, 09:55:33 PM

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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2013, 11:44:34 PM »
I always keep the white and give the customer the yellow. I used to have to do five part forms due to one warranty company wanting a copy sent to them plus a copy in the box with the failed product. I no longer do service for that company so it makes it a bit easier.

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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2013, 01:17:50 AM »
What about the tractor feed strip that gets torn off at the perf line? Where does that go?
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2013, 04:14:52 AM »
Quote from: fistful on August 07, 2013, 01:17:50 AM
What about the tractor feed strip that gets torn off at the perf line? Where does that go?

You tear it off and throw it on the desk of the thoughtless person who tried to give it to you.
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2013, 04:42:22 AM »
Don't forget all the little "dits" from the paper tape punch. Those were so much fun, dump the full bin down the back of some ones shirt or fill their shoes.
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2013, 10:37:40 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on August 07, 2013, 04:42:22 AM
Don't forget all the little "dits" from the paper tape punch. Those were so much fun, dump the full bin down the back of some ones shirt or fill their shoes.

Now you are showing my age.

Anybody else work with 16-baud?  Lots more little dits and by the time the bin overflow alarm sounded there was enough pressure so that the little boogers spewed all over the place when you pulled the bin to empty it.  Invariably one of them would get lodged, perfectly aligned, on a relay contact, causing hours of tracing circuits to find the fault.  (Or you learned really quickly to check the contacts with a wire pick before playing hide and seek with the electrons.)

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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2013, 10:45:00 AM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on August 07, 2013, 10:37:40 AM
Now you are showing my age.

Anybody else work with 16-baud?  Lots more little dits and by the time the bin overflow alarm sounded there was enough pressure so that the little boogers spewed all over the place when you pulled the bin to empty it.  Invariably one of them would get lodged, perfectly aligned, on a relay contact, causing hours of tracing circuits to find the fault.  (Or you learned really quickly to check the contacts with a wire pick before playing hide and seek with the electrons.)

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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2013, 11:34:27 AM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on August 07, 2013, 10:37:40 AM
Now you are showing my age.

Anybody else work with 16-baud?  Lots more little dits and by the time the bin overflow alarm sounded there was enough pressure so that the little boogers spewed all over the place when you pulled the bin to empty it.  Invariably one of them would get lodged, perfectly aligned, on a relay contact, causing hours of tracing circuits to find the fault.  (Or you learned really quickly to check the contacts with a wire pick before playing hide and seek with the electrons.)

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Not all that long ago. The Navy kept the old stuff a long time. We were still using IBM cards for supplies inventory as late as '85. I even got pretty good at sorting them by hand when the machine was on the fritz when I was TAD to the warehouse during overhaul in '83.
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Re: Receipt copy colors
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2013, 09:07:55 AM »
Last I heard, several years ago, the Navy was still using mechanical analog computers for fire control in their big ships.

Still?

Oh, and VAX computers for their digital stuff.
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