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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353213 | System and method for preventing duplicate printing in a web browser A method and system for processing shipping labels having postage is described. In one configuration a hidden frame in a secure browser window is used to control printing of an actual shipping label while allowing unlimited sample printing of a sample shipping label... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343357 | System and method for printing multiple postage indicia A system and method for printing multiple postage indicia, such as an outbound and/or an associated return postage meter stamp, including a desired postage amount, onto a document or label is described. A processor based system is programmed to interact with a custo... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7331725 | System and method for monitoring unauthorized dissemination of documents and portable media A method for enforcing a distribution policy associated with an electronic document comprising the steps of: sending the document to an output device; determining said distribution policy associated with said document; instructing a marking module to embed a marking... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324125 | Method for automatic adjustment of media settings for a printer A method for automatically adjusting the setting of a thermal printer when a new roll of media is inserted in the printer. A maximum and a minimum energy needed to print are determined. This information is used to determine a coarse energy setting. The printer next ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315828 | Method of and system for delivering combined social expression cards and gift certificates A method of and system for producing combined social expression cards and gift certificates for delivery to recipients is implemented in a Web-based client-server environment in which remotely located customers use standard Web browsers to access a Web server. The W... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7283630 | Verification of authenticity of goods by use of random numbers Method of verifying authenticity of goods uses combination codes that have a random portion and a non-random portion that includes at least a secret portion that is encrypted. The combination codes are encrypted and may be applied to goods and checked to determine a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266696 | Electronic postmarking without directly utilizing an electronic postmark server Systems and methods for performing electronic postmarking of data, without directly utilizing a regular electronic postmark (EPM) server (110), including receiving data from a data acquisition device (102), generating a MicroEPM data structure (106 | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266531 | Mail processing system with unique mailpiece authorization assigned in advance of mailpieces entering carrier service mail processing stream A mailing list is created including destination addresses for mailpieces to be submitted to a carrier service for delivery. A unique mailpiece identifier associated with mailpieces on the mailing list is generated by the carrier or other trusted third party. The uni... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257558 | System and method for conducting a financial transaction between a sender and recipient of a mail piece In a postage payment system, a secure integrated circuit (IC) card is used to manage postage funds, and created encrypted postage indicia. Among other things, the system is capable of performing charge-back accounting of postage expenses and generating mail contents... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7228292 | Card-based system and method for issuing negotiable instruments A system is provided for establishing uninsured accounts which can be remotely accessed by account holders to obtain access to account funds through the issuance of negotiable instruments made payable to the account holder. The account holder enters its account numb... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226494 | Secure postage payment system and method In a postage payment system, a secure integrated circuit (IC) card is used to manage postage funds, and create encrypted postage indicia. Among other things, the system is capable of performing charge-back accounting of postage expenses and generating mail contents.... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7186040 | Arrangement for generation of a print image for franking and postmarking machines In an arrangement to generate a print image for franking and postmarking machines a control unit electronically controls a printer and storage unit for data that are printed in predetermined sections of the print image. Controlled by the electronic control unit, a s... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7131589 | Document transport apparatus and method for barcode readers A barcode reader device for processing a plurality of documents having a transport system for transporting the documents along a travel path through a reading area; a blocking member; and a bearing member for pivotally suspending the blocking member along the travel... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7081971 | System and method for printing on mailpieces using a fixed print head A system for printing markings along the top and bottom of mailpieces, using a print head in a fixed position. The print head receives print instructions either from a print module or an inverted print module and prints one or more first markings onto the mailpiece,... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7009723 | Method and apparatus for arranging a plurality of orders for printed articles A method is provided for arranging a plurality of orders for printed articles in order to reduce wasted space when printing the orders in multiple column's. A plurality of orders for at least one printed article are obtained, and the orders are sorted according to t... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7008128 | System, method and apparatus for printing oversized print media Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, apparatus, and method for printing oversized print media which allow for the printing of a preassembled substrate or a single piece substrate without compromising the integrity of the print quality. Preferred em... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6978932 | Apparatus for converting an envelope feeding machine into an internet connected postage machine Methods and apparatus are disclosed for using existing envelope feeding machines to print IBIP indicium, and CASS approved address information and bar code information. The invention is shown to include a print head operative in response to a print signal and a cont... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973368 | Method and device for reliably switching an operating mode of an industrial controller for machine tools or production machines A method and a device for securely switching between operating modes of an industrial controller for machine tools or production machines are described. Before the operating mode is switched, the operator is identified by identification means that transmit to an ope... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6929413 | Printer driver log security verification for identification cards The present invention provides a counterfeit resistant ID card where a printed security feature is applied to the ID card at the issuance location at the time the card is issued. Specifically, the present invention provides for a process of producing an ID card havi... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6917924 | Automated package shipping machine A system for accepting and storing items for subsequent pickup by a commercial carrier includes a storage area which is defined by an outer housing, and a customer interface area that includes a weighing unit and a unit, such as a magnetic card reader, for accepting... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6895395 | Postal printing device with facilitated reading This invention relates to an inkjet printing device of a franking machine intended to print postal indicia on a mail piece to be franked, displaced with respect to this device in a direction of displacement, the postal indicia comprising at least an amount of franki... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6698953 | Print image with print elements having different security levels assigned thereto, and an apparatus and storage medium for producing such a print image A print image, such as for a franking apparatus, is composed of a number of elements to which different security levels are assigned. In a storage medium, and in a franking apparatus containing such a storage medium, for the print image, the image data ar... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6585436 | Printing method and apparatus and label-producing method and apparatus There are provided a printing method and apparatus as well as provide a label-producing method and apparatus that are capable of adding an amusing effect and topicality resulting therefrom to printing personally performed by a user. A predetermined print ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6585433 | Print signal generation A print signal generation system for generating print bit map data corresponding to a desired image where the print bit map data is utilized by a digital printing device to print the desired image. The system includes region parameter data, a first data g... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6582138 | Authenticated sheet material A method of creating an authenticatable sheet of material, includes measuring at least one physical property of the sheet of material; marking an edge of the sheet of material with indicia arranged to form a unique code identifying the sheet of material, ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6579021 | Polyvalent franking machine This invention relates to a machine for franking mailpieces or labels, comprising a base and a franking module connected to this base, the base comprising first transport means for conveying the mailpieces along a mailpiece-conveying path, from a mailpiec... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6527462 | Device for dating notes A device for placing the time and date on notepaper comprises a container, a tray within the container for holding a pad of notepaper, and means for biasing the tray upwardly. The device includes a thermal print head attached to the bottom surface of a co... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6464415 | Personal computer having a built-in printer, and a system and method for computing rate information using the computer A personal computer includes a built-in printer having a transport path which extends parallel to a surface of the computer housing. The transport path may extend along the entire length of the housing surface, or only partially so. Situated within the ho... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6351275 | Printer with background images A printing device comprising user input means having function setting means for selectively instigating a background text state and an edit state and character selection means for selecting characters or symbols to be printed, a label memory for holding l... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6244764 | Method for data matrix print quality verification A method of verifying data matrix print quality utilizing center offset for dot peen or inkjet marks, and size offset for laser etched or printed marks. The method of the present invention builds on the AIM specification and provides additional measures t... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6146030 | Method and apparatus for printing laminated bar code symbols and other symbols suffering from specular reflection distortions A method and associated apparatus prints bars of symbol characters comprised of a plurality of rows which are in turn comprised of a plurality of close adjacent dots to improve print quality and modulation when the symbol is printed on a media which is or... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6050731 | Code image quality check apparatus and code image reader A code image quality check apparatus adapted to check the quality of a code image printed and recorded on a printing medium as an optically readable image of error correcting code data containing information data adapted to be optically read by manual sca... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6042279 | Method and apparatus for printing with real-time print quality correction, such as in one or two dimensional bar code printing A printer and method of printing including in a feedback mechanism having an imaging head for imaging, digitizing, or sampling at least a portion of a symbol, a comparator for comparing the imaged portion to a print command provided by a print logic print... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6041704 | Method for operating a digitally printing postage meter to generate and check a security imprint In a method for a digitally printing postage meter machine and for generating and checking a security imprint, critical franking information together with a signature are printed on a mail piece in the machine-readable area of the franking format. A print... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5915865 | Method and apparatus for compensating for printer top-of-form and image stretch errors An apparatus and method for controlling operation of a printer enables the transport rate of the print media to be coordinated with the print rate in order to precisely compensate for top-of-form and image stretch errors. The printer comprises a platen ro... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5890817 | U.P.C./EAN symology font optimization in an on-demand printer A method of printing a pre-defined symbology character set as a series of bars separated by spaces in which the bars are formed of horizontal rows of close adjacent dots while preventing ambiguous decoding of similar character pairs in which one character... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5853252 | Method and apparatus for U.P.C./EAN symbology ambiguous character compensation by localized thermal energy dot adjustment A method and apparatus is disclosed that can be used to print the U.P.C./EAN symbology in a way that does not suffer poor print quality over a range of ink spread conditions by applying appropriately more or less thermal energy to at least one row of dots... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5730533 | Apparatus and method for duplex printing A duplex printing system and a printing method which enables printing of the second side of substrate in any desired order is provided. The printing system includes a printing unit, a reader and a processing unit. In the first pass, the printing unit rece... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5415479 | Postal bar code printing with engraved character impact printer An impact printing device for printing postal bar code patterns on an information carrier. The patterns are a combination of parallel tall and short bars separated by spaces. The type elements are attached to a movable type carrier, each element comprised... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5326181 | Envelope addressing system adapted to simultaneously print addresses and bar codes An envelope feeding and printing assembly providing for the individual, lengthwise feeding of envelopes and enabling printing thereon while said envelopes are in motion, including a plurality of print heads and a platen for imprinting the envelopes, an en... | 07/05/1994 |
