Printing – Selective or progressive – Rotary machines
Patent
1997-10-03
1999-11-23
Eickholt, Eugene
Printing
Selective or progressive
Rotary machines
40012009, 209578, B41L 4746
Patent
active
059880570
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for canceling postage on individual mailpieces of a stack of mixed mail includes an apparatus for separating individual mailpieces from the stack of mixed mail; structure for feeding the separated individual mailpieces along a feed path; a mechanism, positioned along the feed path, for detecting the presence of stamps on individual mailpieces; a printing mechanism having a plurality of digital printheads; a control, in communication with the detecting mechanism, for operating the printing mechanism to print a cancellation mark over stamps on individual mailpieces in response to detection by the detecting mechanism of the presence of stamps on individual mailpieces; and apparatus for determining the number of rows of stamps on individual mailpieces and for selectively energizing only the individual ones of the plurality of digital printheads needed to ensure that the cancellation mark is printed over each of the sensed number of rows of stamps on individual mailpieces. A method is associated with the apparatus.
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Salomon James A
Yap Anthony E.
Eickholt Eugene
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Scolnick Melvin J.
Shapiro Steven J.
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