Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1996-12-24
1999-02-16
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
36447808, 705401, 707500, G07B 1700
Patent
active
058730737
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a method for producing a finished mail piece. The method allows a system user to select at a first node, a plurality of characteristics which define a mailing. These characteristics include selection of a document to be printed at a terminal node and a list of addresses to which the printed document will be sent. Once selections have been made, the print job is transmitted to a terminal node which comprises a data processor, an envelope printer, and a document printer among other elements. The document printer will print the document in accordance with the characteristics selected at the first node; and, the envelope printer will print addresses from the address list to corresponding envelopes. Once the document has been printed, it is inserted into the envelope by inserting means to form an unfinished mail piece. The unfinished mail piece is sealed and then franked with appropriate postage in order to form a finished mail piece. The mail piece is then placed into a mail stream for delivery to the destination address. A receipt indicative of the print job and delivery into the mail stream may be optionally generated by the terminal node and transmitted to the first node. Several nodal layers can be created such that the first node can transmit the print job to a second node which can further transfer the print job to subsequent nodes for printing and routing.
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Bresnan Mark
Oh Je H.
Cosimano Edward R.
Malandra Charles R.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
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