number printed in both a human readable form such as a character string 200 and in a machine readable form such as a barcode 202 time and date stamps 204 cash out amount 206 casino location information 208 cashless enabled game identifier 210 and an indication of an expiration date 212 fig3 is an illustration of a coupon including logical fields described in a template based printer language in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention in this example a coupon may 300 include four types of data fields text fields such as text field 302 barcode fields such as barcode field 304 graphic fields such as graphic field 306 and line box draw fields such as line box draw field 308 the fields of a voucher or coupon are described using description data included in an electronic template that may be stored by a gaming printer a template may include a plurality of fields in combination resulting in a paste up style printed voucher or coupon a plurality of templates describing different types of vouchers or coupons may be stored in a gaming printer to support the operations of a casino or other establishement the actual value or data for each of the fields described in a template may or may not be.