Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price – Postage meter system
Patent
1999-04-19
2000-11-28
Cosimano, Edward R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
Postage meter system
705408, G07B 1700
Patent
active
061547344
ABSTRACT:
A value dispensing system includes a vault that accounts for units of a currency type dispensed by the value dispensing system, the vault including a first identifier that indicates one of different first and second currency types the vault is currently accounting for and a second identifier indicative of whether the vault is pending conversion to account for the one of the first and second currency types it is not currently accounting for in lieu of the one of the first and second currency types it is currently accounting for; a printing module which prints an indicium indicative of value, the printing module having a first indicator indicative of which of the first and second currency types the printhead module is set to print as part of the indicium; and an apparatus for determining if a first predetermined relationship exists between the first indicator, the first identifier, and the second identifier and for preventing the printing of the indicium if the predetermined relationship does not exist.
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Bailey William F.
DeFilippo Craig J.
Cosimano Edward R.
Melton Michael E.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Shapiro Steven J.
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