Mail handling apparatus and process for printing an image column-by-column in real time
CA 2189082 C · Owner: Arsenault, Robert G. · Inventors: Moh, Sungwon; Pauly, Steven J.; Arsenault, Robert G.
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An apparatus for producing an image in a mail handling machine includes a printing device and a non-volatile memory having fixed and variable image data elements stored therein a first portion of the fixed, image data elements being stored in a compressed manner and a second portion of the fixed image data elements being stored in a bit map form. The apparatus further includes a first control device for identifying at least one of the variable image data elements stored in the non-volatile memory and associated with the image and a second control device for receiving from the first control device data corresponding to the at least one of the variable image data elements associated with the …
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- Filed October 29, 1996 and granted March 26, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 29, 2016.
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