Camera verification (including personalized document matching) is becoming common throughout the print, mail, & packaging industries. Older used mailing equipment is being updated more and more with new camera verification attachments and software. The following article will lead us through the topic Proving accuracy with Postcard Mailers production.
Their flagship product, FlexMail, was initially designed as an inexpensive way of importing data and arranging it on a layout template. In the model, users could include all the appropriate graphics, logos, fonts, and barcodes. Of course, FlexMail still does this, but the number of features has grown. One of FlexMail's most exciting benefits is the sheer number of print drivers Flex Systems has developed and supported.
This can be accomplished with tracking software and hardware within an inkjet system controller... But not all address printers are capable of this. For example, Buskro inkjet systems offer such tracking capabilities as an option, which would allow you to create personalized and matching (intelligent) mail by adapting the system to your current inserting, bindery, tip-on, or direct mail equipment. Here are two ways it could work:
In the first one, you have a standard six pocket inserter. One piece of the package is pulled from a pocket and dropped into a slot. The plot moves forward, where the inserter falls the next section on top, and so on. At the end of the process, the whole package is inserted into an envelope.
The most traditional method of verification is ensuring that all customer statements have successfully exited an envelope inserter. This is a simple matter of reading a sequential number or decoding a personalized Intelligent Mail Barcode or IMB through a window envelope, and "checking off" each document that leaves the machine. If a document is removed or if there is a "double-feed, " the report will show the missing document before the mailing is complete.
Flex Stream users can merely overlay the marks to existing PDF documents BEFORE they are printed. Why is this important? With statement work, it's common for the data to be prepared off-site by an IT team. The IT department doesn't always know the logic of the mechanical inserting equipment. So Flex Stream builds a logical bridge between IT and printing/mailing departments.
With the right inkjet, a Buskro for instance, this would be 100% reliable. You could recover from jams and operator errors quickly and efficiently because the software would keep track of the database entries that weren't printed correctly. This would also allow you to run at full speed. No more printing envelopes in advance. No more manual "spot checks" to make sure your stacks are still correlating.
FlexMail also offers Tracking, for Read / Write or Read and Print on an inserter. So it can read a 2D code on an upstream document (in the inserter) and send the data to an inkjet printer to address a matching name on the outside of the envelope. Flex mail can also use an IBM verification camera, and check it against the original print file. It can also be programmed to shut down the inkjet printer or inserter if the IMB code fails to read.
Their flagship product, FlexMail, was initially designed as an inexpensive way of importing data and arranging it on a layout template. In the model, users could include all the appropriate graphics, logos, fonts, and barcodes. Of course, FlexMail still does this, but the number of features has grown. One of FlexMail's most exciting benefits is the sheer number of print drivers Flex Systems has developed and supported.
This can be accomplished with tracking software and hardware within an inkjet system controller... But not all address printers are capable of this. For example, Buskro inkjet systems offer such tracking capabilities as an option, which would allow you to create personalized and matching (intelligent) mail by adapting the system to your current inserting, bindery, tip-on, or direct mail equipment. Here are two ways it could work:
In the first one, you have a standard six pocket inserter. One piece of the package is pulled from a pocket and dropped into a slot. The plot moves forward, where the inserter falls the next section on top, and so on. At the end of the process, the whole package is inserted into an envelope.
The most traditional method of verification is ensuring that all customer statements have successfully exited an envelope inserter. This is a simple matter of reading a sequential number or decoding a personalized Intelligent Mail Barcode or IMB through a window envelope, and "checking off" each document that leaves the machine. If a document is removed or if there is a "double-feed, " the report will show the missing document before the mailing is complete.
Flex Stream users can merely overlay the marks to existing PDF documents BEFORE they are printed. Why is this important? With statement work, it's common for the data to be prepared off-site by an IT team. The IT department doesn't always know the logic of the mechanical inserting equipment. So Flex Stream builds a logical bridge between IT and printing/mailing departments.
With the right inkjet, a Buskro for instance, this would be 100% reliable. You could recover from jams and operator errors quickly and efficiently because the software would keep track of the database entries that weren't printed correctly. This would also allow you to run at full speed. No more printing envelopes in advance. No more manual "spot checks" to make sure your stacks are still correlating.
FlexMail also offers Tracking, for Read / Write or Read and Print on an inserter. So it can read a 2D code on an upstream document (in the inserter) and send the data to an inkjet printer to address a matching name on the outside of the envelope. Flex mail can also use an IBM verification camera, and check it against the original print file. It can also be programmed to shut down the inkjet printer or inserter if the IMB code fails to read.
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