Printing apparatus for insertion machine
US4582312A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 7, 1984 |
| Grant date | Apr 15, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 7, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB07C3/18
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A printer apparatus for a document handling machine is adapted to obtain a signal from a series of information-bearing marks on a first document and transmit that signal to the control device for the printer apparatus to initiate the printing of an image such as a bar code on a second document which is to be furnished in a mailing envelope along with the first document. The printer apparatus automatically removes the second document from a hopper, advances the second document to a printing station, lowers a print head module to the printing station over the second document, prints a specified but variable bar code on the second document, and delivers the imprinted second document to the transport raceway of a document insertion machine.
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