G - Physics – 06 – F
Patent
G - Physics
06
F
G06F 3/12 (2006.01) G07B 17/00 (2006.01) G06F 19/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2238896
Mail pieces are produced by an apparatus which includes a printer, for printing a plurality of documents and envelopes in response to signals generated by a host computer under control of an application program. A mail finishing unit forms a plurality of mail pieces from the documents and the envelopes. A control unit controls the mail finishing unit to form an individual one of the plurality of mail pieces with individual attributes, or characteristics, such as envelope configuration, numbers of inserts, folds of the insert, and other characteristics. The attributes of any one mail piece may be different from attributes of others of the mail pieces, so that each mail piece may have individual attributes. The control unit receives the signals generated by the host computer; and is programmed to parse the signals from the host computer and to extract therefrom control signals generated under control of the application program. The control signals identify the individual attributes for the individual one of the plurality of mail pieces. The control unit responds to the extracted control signals by generating finishing control signals for the mail finishing unit to form the individual one of the plurality of mail pieces with the individual attributes. The control unit is further programmed to extract print signals for the print unit from the signals and to provide print control signals to the print unit responsively thereto. The application program may be a word processor, which outputs document pages for printing by the printer. A user may provide a particular format or protocol to a document page, preferably to the first page output by the word processor, which designates that page to the control unit as a control page including the various control signals. Upon recognizing the control page, the control unit extracts the same from the word processor output, so that the printer does not print, or attempt to print, the elements thereof as text.
Harman James L.
Rolling Patrick
Macrae & Co.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
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