Electronic franking machine

Abstract

Abstract A machine for franking mail documents (DO) and including a drive unit adapted to displace these documents successively along a detector device (DM) and a printer head mechanism (PH). The detector device detects the document and triggers the printer head mechanism to print a stamp on a predetermined printing area of the document. This electronic franking machine includes a variable delay unit (DC) which subsequently to the detection of a document delays the triggering of the printer head mechanism (PH) and thereby modifies the printing area on which a stamp will be printed. By disabling or enabling the variable delay unit (DC) such a stamp is printed either in the upper right corner area of the document or in an area at a different distance, e.g. of about 12 cm, from the right hand edge of the document respectively. The first case is suitable for printing stamps on envelopes, whereas the second case is used when stamps have to be printed on paper strips to be wrapped around mailed newspapers.

Inventors

• 👤 Benoît Guillaume

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