Apparatus for controlling printing means
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsEdilberto I. Salazar, Wallace Kirschner
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Abstract
In combination with apparatus for printing indicia on a sheet, and a microcomputer for controlling the indicia printing apparatus to cause the indicia to be printed a predetermined marginal distance from an edge of the sheet, there is provided an improvement for changing the marginal distance. The improvement comprises: operator-controlled apparatus for providing at least one signal representative of at least one increment of distance; and programming the microcomputer for processing the at least one signal to provide a changed marginal distance, wherein the changed marginal distance includes the predetermined distance changed by the at least one increment of distance.
Claims16
In combination with rotary printing means for printing indicia on a continuously moving sheet, and microcomputer means including a microprocessor programmed for controlling the angular velocity of the indicia printing means in consideration of the velocity of the sheet and of sampled increments of angular velocity of the indicia printing means to normally cause the indicia to be printed on the sheet a predetermined marginal distance from an edge of the sheet substantially independently of the velocity of the sheet, an improvement for changing the marginal distance, the improvement comprising:
- a. operator-controlled means for providing at least one signal representative of at least one increment of distance;
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- b. the microcomputer means including means for processing the at least one signal to provide a changed marginal distance, wherein the changed marginal distance includes the predetermined marginal distance changed by the at least one increment of distance.
In combination with sheet handling apparatus including means for continuously feeding a sheet rotary printing means for printing postage indicia on the continuously fed sheet, and microcomputer means including a microprocessor programmed for controlling the indicia printing means in consideration of the velocity of the sheet and of sampled increments of angular velocity of the indicia printing means to normally cause the postage indicia to be printed on the sheet a predetermined marginal distance from an edge of the sheet substantially independently of the velocity of the sheet, an improvement for changing the marginal distance, the improvement comprising
- a. operator-controlled means for providing at least one signal representative of at least one increment of distance;
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- b. the microcomputer means including means for processing the at least one signal to provide a changed marginal distance, wherein the changed marginal distance includes the predetermined marginal distance changed by at least one increment of distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.