B - Operations – Transporting – 31 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
31
B
93/2, 93/62
B31B 21/26 (2006.01) B07C 1/00 (2006.01) B31B 21/74 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2037935
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An apparatus for producing items in selected configurations and a system and method for controlling the same. More particularly, an apparatus for producing mail pieces and a system and method for controlling it to produce mail pieces in a variety of configurations are disclosed. The apparatus includes a laser printer and folding sealing apparatus controlled by a data processor. The folder sealer apparatus combines sheets printed by the laser printer with pre-printed sheets and envelope forms, which also may be printed by the laser printer or may be windowed envelopes, folds the sheets as necessary and folds and seals the envelope form about the folded sheets to produce a mail piece. A user inputs a configuration for the mail piece which is translated by the data processor into a data structure and transmitted to the controller of the folder sealer apparatus. The controller controls devices comprised in the laser printer and the folder sealer by executing state routines in accordance with the data structure to produce the mail piece in the defined configuration. Concurrently the data processor transmits text from an output file to the laser printer for printing on printed sheets and envelope forms. The data processor also controls the laser printer to print an address for the mail piece either on an envelope form or on a printed sheet in a position where it will be visible through the envelope. Thus the apparatus is controlled to process an output file stored in the data processor into a mail run having a selected configuration.
Baker Walter J.
Brown Michael A.
Hubbard David W.
Martin Samuel W.
Miller Carl A.
Macrae & Co.
Pitney Bowes Inc.
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