Digital printing, metering and recording of other post services on the face of the mail piece
CA 2236744 C · Owner: Sansone, Ronald P. · Inventors: Sansone, Ronald P.
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A inexpensive and time saving method and system for reducing the use of gummed service stickers and the completion by hand of special forms for specialty mail is disclosed. This invention also reduces the amount of trips that have to be made to the post. The foregoing may be accomplished by replacing the standard (fixed) graphic cartridge that is normally supplied with a standard digital postage meter with an addressable "ram" image cartridge. The addressable ram image cartridge may also be linked to a personal computer, where a program would allow the user to request specialty mail services. Once the desired service (services) are selected the required, postal graphic images are downloaded …
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- Filed May 5, 1998 and granted July 16, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 5, 2018.
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