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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8118294 | Validation of mailpiece composition completeness A method and system for validating the completeness of a document collation includes obtaining information concerning a document having a first page and a last page, and processing the obtained information. The processed information is employed to apply a marking on... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8087653 | Method and arrangement for producing printed products A method for producing printed products with an arrangement including at least one printing press to produce book blocks, at least one conveying device to convey the book blocks, at least one processing device to provide each respective book block with a respective ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7717413 | Method for quality assurance in the operation of a paper-handling unit A paper-handling unit serves for generating groups of items, wherein each group includes a plurality of items. The paper-handling unit includes at least one input channel for receiving the items, a portion to generate groups from the received items, a drive-out stat... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7673865 | Presentation instrument distribution systems and methods Systems and methods for preparing presentation instruments for distribution. Some of the methods include reading a code from a distribution stock, accessing a database and determining a presentation instrument to be associated with the distribution stock, selecting ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7537204 | Sheet processing systems and methods Systems and methods for processing sheets, statements, and/or inserts prior to mailing are provided. One sheet processing system includes a receiver adapted to receive first and second single page sheets to be processed. The first sheet originates from a stack of fi... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7516949 | Sideways sheet feeder and methods Sheet processing systems and methods are provided, including systems and methods for advancing and organizing sheets. System can include an alignment mechanism having an alignment plate, a first advancing mechanism configured to individually advance each sheet of a ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7441762 | Special order book production system A method of book production wherein a customer sends a computer file of a book to a producer whose computer book production program restructures the text and cover data to fit a standard/preferred size accommodated by the producer's book binding system. The program ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7419149 | Paper sheet processing device A paper sheet processing device (1) for processing paper sheets while carrying the paper sheets, comprising a device body (10), a carrier means (2) for carrying the paper sheets one by one, a carrier driving means for driving said carrier means,... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413175 | Automated cover-driven workflows for manufacturing books in a production environment A cover-driven book production method and system are disclosed. The method of cover-driven book production includes providing a plurality of book covers. The book covers can be identified using, for example, a scanner. A book block can then be retrieved from a book ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7401817 | Invisible, machine-detectable security marking, production of the security marking, and security system comprising this security marking The invention relates to a security marking whose level of proof against forgery is greater than that of known security markings, comprising liquid-crystalline material with chiral phase, wherein the security marking is imperceptible to the eye and the properties of... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7337387 | Intercepting document data from a spooler and using the data to retrieve related information from a data base to modify the document An improved document generation tool which intercepts data from a print spool and utilizes that data in conjunction with the database to cause certain changes to the final printed data. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333936 | Bar code synchronization process for scanning mail envelopes and their contents Disclosed is a method and system for enabling the high speed processing of physical mail articles to convert the same into electronic documents that may be electronically distributed to the original intended recipient without requiring the recipient to come into con... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333878 | Combined mailing streams A method of combining mail streams in a printing finishing process including the acts of generating a master mailing list having a sequence, forming a first mail stream, forming a second mail stream, and combining the first mail stream and the second mail stream acc... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325375 | Selective product inserter apparatus and process The combination of a plurality of streams of printed products. The first stream of products is selectively inserted into a packaging device while being merged into a second stream of products. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7314216 | Method for making a unique code onto a paper edge A method of marking a unique code onto an edge of a sheet of material takes N stacks of sheet material, each stack having N1 sheets; prints a barcode uniquely identifying each stack on at least one edge of the stack so that each sheet of sheet material in the... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7290666 | Method and apparatus for sorting article Used articles of different types are sorted into individual types through a sorting line, and are feed to disassembling lines that are provided for the respective article types. The sorting line is provided with a type discriminating section and a sorting section. I... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287748 | Method and apparatus for producing selectively collated print products A method and apparatus for producing selectively collated print products employ a production section, a control device, a transfer-out device for transferring out defective print products, a detection device that detects and records gaps resulting from the transfer ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284749 | Sheet processing systems and methods Systems and methods for processing sheets, statements, and/or inserts prior to mailing are provided. One sheet processing system includes a receiver adapted to receive first and second sheets to be processed. The first sheet originates from a stack of first sheets o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282658 | Delivery point sequencer and method of use A device and method for device for sequencing disparate products includes at least a first feeder mechanism feeding a stream of a first product type in a pre-sequenced order. At least a second feeder mechanism feeds a stream of second product type though a sequencin... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277772 | Mail inserter machine remote control with a scanner An integrated remote control and integrated scanner (20) for use with a mail inserter (10), including a user interface and device logic module (20b), a transceiver (20a) for wirelessly communicating with the mail inserter ( | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272466 | Electronic ID's for printed products The invention relates to an electronic ID coupled to printed products. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7255338 | Method and apparatus for processing sheet material The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing sheet material, in particular papers of value such as bank notes, checks, etc., wherein different groups of sheet material are processed one after the other, the different groups of sheet materia... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7246798 | Method and apparatus for assembling personalized electronic media into printed products A method and apparatus for assembling personalized CDs, DVDs and other types of optical disks, magnetic media, and data storage devices into magazines, catalogs, pamphlets, and other printed products in order to enhance the amount and quality of personalization asso... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7231750 | Method and system for creating mailpieces from a single continuous web of printed material A method for creating mailpieces from a single web of printed material. The web of printed material includes printed matter to be used on envelopes, and other printed matter to be used on mail content to be included in the envelopes. The content pages are rectangula... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7198260 | Method for synchronizing a number of paper feeding channels of a paper processing system The invention relates to a method for automatically synchronizing a number of paper feeding channels of an inserting system involving the following steps: a) inspecting the sheets provided for output in one of the channels by comparing their group sequence number an... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197375 | System and method for collating items A system and method for merge-sequencing ordered subsets of items into a single merged set in a predetermined sorted sequence and error-checking the resulting merged set to provide information about out of order items to allow for efficient error correction methods.... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190846 | Image reader A CCD camera 10 picks up multiple adjacent targeted portions on a document 2, and to obtain distance information, a distance measurement unit 11 calculates the distances to the targeted portions of the document 2. Based on the distance in... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7158858 | Method to determine when a media handling system configuration is valid and a media handling system arranged in accordance with the same method A media handling system comprises a configuration of N linked modules. Each module has an order based on the module's linkage in the configuration. Thus, a first module of order 1 links to a second module of order 2, the second module links to a third module of orde... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151615 | Method for the handling of print job banner sheet output A method for improving human interaction with a printer and its hardcopy output. The method provides printing a print job and placing it into an output bin followed with a pause before printing a banner page for that print job. However, this banner will not be print... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7134073 | Apparatus and method for enabling composite style sheet application to multi-part electronic documents An apparatus and method for enabling composite style sheet application to multi-part electronic documents is provided. The apparatus and method identify content of a requested electronic document and determine subset style sheets that correspond to the identified co... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133741 | Method and device for accepting articles in the form of sheet-type material The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for accepting sheet material, in particular papers of value such as bank notes, checks, etc., whereby different groups of sheet material are successively accepted and stored. In a known method and corres... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7121540 | Method and device for the mechanical stitching of multipart printing products by means of wire staples A method and machine for stitching multipart printing products by means of wire staples (8, 26), in which the products (2, 22) are transported forwards continuously by a conveyer (4, 19, 23) and a wire staple (8, 26) is driven in by a sti... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113846 | Sheet handling apparatus which inserts insert sheets between recording sheets having image formed thereon, method of controlling same, image forming apparatus and storage medium therefor A sheet handling apparatus is provided, which is comprised of a plurality of inserter trays for stacking thereon insert sheets to be inserted between recording sheets having images formed thereon. Sheet feeding modes for feeding insert sheets include two kinds, i.e.... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7100911 | Method and apparatus for assembling a stack of sheet articles from multiple input paths An apparatus for assembling a plurality of sheet articles into a document includes a plurality of individual sheet input paths along which one or more sheet articles can be advanced, and a central accumulation area for accumulating the sheet articles. The central ac... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096088 | Combined mailing streams A method of combining mail streams in a printing finishing process including the acts of generating a master mailing list having a sequence, forming a fist mail stream, forming a second mail stream, and combining the first mail stream and the second mail stream acco... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7080830 | Sheet processing apparatus with multiple conveying units The invention provides a sheet processing apparatus including a sheet processing portion for processing a sheet, and a sheet conveying portion for conveying a sheet to the sheet processing portion, wherein the sheet conveying portion includes a sheet conveying unit ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7055816 | Method of processing sheet-like products, and apparatus for implementing the method A method and apparatus for processing a stream of sheet-like products, such as printed magazines and newspapers, whereby the orientation of the products in the stream is changed to facilitate subsequent processing. The products are conveyed in an imbricated stream, ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044463 | Document feeder and method A document feeder comprises an input hopper (1) into which batches of documents with interleaved separators (24, 25) are loaded in use, each separator carrying data related to the associated batch. A feed system (9, 10) withdraws documents and s... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7038803 | Method and apparatus for affixing print banner labels to printed files A method and apparatus for affixing labels on printed output medium for separating print jobs. The method and apparatus include spooling at least one print file to a print queue. A print label program is executed to identify a first page of each print job in the pri... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021184 | System and method for providing sheets to an inserter system using a rotary cutter An inserter input system including a web feeder providing a web of printed material to be split by a web slitting knife along the web's direction of travel. The split web is then cut transverse to the direction of travel by a rotary cutter operating at a first veloc... | 04/04/2006 |
