Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7661664 | Method and apparatus for forming a document set A method for forming a document set is described. The document set is formed from rectangular sheets of the same size and includes an envelope sheet and at least one insert sheet. The method includes the steps of printing the envelope sheet with envelope information... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7581723 | Personalizing and inserting articles for mass distribution An apparatus for personalizing and inserting articles for mass distribution, includes an envelope hopper for holding a plurality of envelopes which each carry a unique machine readable code associated with a unique individual. An article hopper holds a plurality of ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7349853 | Method and system for routing hardcopy mail A method and system for routing hardcopy mail is provided. Specifically, a recipient is assigned a unique identifier. The recipient can electronically designate a mailing address to be associated with the assigned identifier. A sender wishing to send the recipient a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7315845 | Method of printing statements using postage meter A method of printing a report sheet using a printer of a postage meter in which the printer is capable of printing only in a print field smaller than required to print the report sheet and in which first and second edges of the sheet are required to be located at pr... | 01/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7300044 | Personalized document and method for making same A method for producing a document suitable for mailing to a recipient including the steps of determining preferences of the mail recipient and compiling a selection of messages relating to recipient preferences in a format accommodating variable data printing. The c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7284690 | Article to be processed having ID, and production method thereof A processed article is provided with a plurality of IDs having the same information for machine reading but difference to be confirmed visually. The information such as the production lot number which is read from the plurality of IDs by the reading device is the sa... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7234694 | Saddle stitcher including card gluers for dispensing personalized printed cards and method therefor A saddle stitcher for producing personalized saddle stitched brochures includes a stitching station, at least two folded sheet feeders for the feeding of nonpersonalized folded sheets, an assembly chain, a drive system, and at least two card gluers arranged along th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7221996 | System and method for combined mailing of a plurality of diverse publications A system for combined mailing of a plurality of diverse publications to a plurality of recipients at an optimized mail rate. The system includes a bindery for binding a plurality of the signatures where the bindery binding the plurality of signatures creates a plura... | 05/22/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7170614 | Image forming apparatus A printer is disclosed which automatically unifies the layout of output to each of mail bins. This printer sets the layout for each of the discharged paper trays (mail bins). The information of layout designated by a personal computer is invalidated when the layout ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7150452 | Waiting tray for sheet processing tray A waiting tray is provided in a sheet-conveying path and holds sheets if the sheets need to be post-processed. A processing tray receives sheets conveyed from the waiting tray. It may receive sheets conveyed through the sheet-conveying path and coming not via the wa... | 12/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7076458 | Method and system for remote delivery of retail banking services A practical system and method for the remote distribution of financial services (e.g., home banking and bill-paying) involves distributing portable terminals to a user base. The terminals include a multi-line display, keys “pointing to” lines on the display, and... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7055814 | Apparatus for collecting printed products An apparatus for collecting, stitching and/or cutting printed products includes an endless collector chain and feeders arranged one behind the other and above the collector chain for placing the printed products on the collector chain, and a stitching device for sti... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7014730 | Selective card diverting Cards may be singly fed along a primary lane so that a batch of cards is fed along the primary lane. One or more cards may be selectively diverted from the primary lane to a secondary lane such that only some of the batch of cards are diverted. The cards from the ba... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6962401 | Methods and systems for operating inkjet printers on production lines Various embodiments include methods and systems for monitoring a production line for non-printing events, and responsive to detecting an event, ascertaining whether an operation can be effected with an inkjet printer stationed along the production line. ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6963787 | Article to be processed having ID, and production method thereof A processed article is provided with a plurality of IDs having the same information for machine reading but difference to be confirmed visually. The information such as the production lot number which is read from the plurality of IDs by the reading device is the sa... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6925439 | Device, system and methods of conducting paperless transactions The invention also includes methods of issuing an account authorization to a UET card, a method of transferring transactional and account information between a UET card and a personal computer or a mainframe computer, a method of using the UET card as a remote termi... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6910843 | Cover authoring systems and methods and bookbinding systems incorporating the same Cover authoring systems and methods for automatically composing a final content layout for a cover, including spinal content formatted to accommodate the width and height dimensions of the book spine, are described. By automatically computing the typeface parameter ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6901312 | Apparatus for preparation of mailpieces and method for downstream control of such apparatus A system, method and apparatus for preparing mailpieces. A inserter system for assembling mailpieces in a mailing job is controlled in accordance with mailpiece records in a corresponding mailing control file. The inserter system scans control inserts included in th... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6814004 | Face-to-face printing within booklet Method for printing pages within a booklet to improve the appearance of images on opposing pages includes sequencing images such that opposing pages are printed with the same print engine and/or fused the same number of times. Booklets include opposing pages having ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6732011 | Apparatus for preparation of mailpieces and method for downstream control of such apparatus A system, method and apparatus for preparing mailpieces. A inserter system for assembling mailpieces in a mailing job is controlled in accordance with mailpiece records in a corresponding mailing control file. The inserter system scans control inserts included in th... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6725126 | Apparatus and method for matched mailing In one embodiment the present invention comprises an apparatus for preparing a matched mailing, the apparatus comprising: an input means for feeding a document downstream to a scanner station; a scanner for scanning the document to obtain information, the scanner pr... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6714835 | System and apparatus for preparation of mailpieces and method for file based setup of such apparatus A system, method and apparatus for preparing mailpieces. A inserter system for assembling mailpieces in a mailing job is controlled in accordance with mailpiece records in a corresponding mailing control file. The inserter system scans control documents included in ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6694219 | 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 personali... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6459858 | Electrophotographic imaging device having ink printing device for printing of metered postage The present invention provides for an imaging apparatus having an electrophotographic imaging section to generate an image on media using an electrophotographic imaging process, and a meter stamp printer to print a meter stamp on the media. The meter stam... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6363851 | Process for producing folded, bound printed products, and the printed product produced A folded, bound printed product comprising a plurality of printed subproducts is produced in that an initial product is printed sequentially in such a manner as to produce a series of printed subproducts which are to be arranged one after the other, the i... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6349242 | Method for selectively printing messages and adding inserts to merchant statements A method for selectively printing messages and adding inserts to merchant statements includes defining messages and inserts. Merchant parameters for each message and insert are then selected. Merchants having the selected parameters for each message and i... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6324442 | Method of sorting printed documents and feeding them to a finishing machine The sheets which are outputted from a printing device are stacked in an exchangeable cassette mounted on an input unit in successive order as they are printed. An identifying label on the cassette is read by a reader and stored in a central controller. An... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6224048 | Mixed format document finishing system responsive to a single page having an encoded document assembly specification A hybrid mixed format document that contains document portions prepared by different format sources, such as both black and white and colored pages, prepared by separately printing the colored pages on a color printer, and the black and white pages on a b... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6213703 | Electronic bookstore vending machine The present invention provides a method and system for producing books on-demand. An electronic bookstore in accordance with the subject invention can receive an electronic text file of a book and then print and bind a copy of the book. A user may browse ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6202005 | System for selectively printing messages and adding inserts to merchant statements A system for selectively printing messages and adding inserts to merchant statements includes defining messages and inserts. Merchant parameters for each message and insert are then selected. Merchants having the selected parameters for each message and i... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6129346 | Method for forming a brochure attached to a periodical An advertising or promotional brochure is disclosed that is to be mailed in conjunction with a magazine or periodical. The brochure may include high-quality, glossy photographs, and be personalized with text and/or images that relate specifically to the m... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6012890 | Electronic bookstore vending machine The present invention provides a method and system for producing books on-demand. An electronic bookstore in accordance with the subject invention can receive an electronic text file of a book and then print and bind a copy of the book. A user may browse ... | 01/11/2000 |
