Pitney Bowes Introduces New Technology for High-Volume Production Printing and Mailing Solutions
October 08 2012 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today announced new technology
enhancements and capabilities to its high-volume production
printing and mailing solutions to help customers increase
operational savings while producing high-quality, color
communications. The new updates include: an in-line envelope
converting module for the Mailstream Wrapper Productivity Series; a
Print+ Direct Mail™ color inkjet system; an enhanced client job
tracking capability for DFWorks® Software; and Intelligent Printer
Data Stream (IPDS) compatibility for the IntelliJet 20® Printing
System. Pitney Bowes will feature these solutions at Graph Expo
2012 in Chicago (booth #1238).
“Pitney Bowes is continuing to invest in new technology and
capabilities to help our customers more effectively connect with
their customers,” said Christoph Stehmann, president, Pitney Bowes
Document Messaging Technologies. “These new enhancements can help
high-volume production printers and mailers produce faster, smarter
customer communications while reducing operational costs.”
New Hardware Solutions and
Enhancements
Pitney Bowes’s new in-line envelope converting module for the
Mailstream Wrapper™ Productivity Series inserting system can help
high-volume transactional mailers and service bureaus produce
high-quality, window envelopes.
The module uses continuous rolls of paper to produce
high-quality wrap material in-line during the mail finishing
process. This unique technology allows mailers to cost-effectively
produce wrap material with a scalloped flap and window patch,
resulting in a finished mailpiece with the appearance of a
traditional business envelope.
Integrated seamlessly with the Mailstream Wrapper, the module
transforms mail finishing into a continuous workflow to produce
variable page transactional and direct mail customer
communications.
This solution features precision inline flap profiling, window
cut-out and patching for processing white paper or pre-printed
rolls. The servo-driven cutting system simplifies changes between
window sizes and locations while helping to ensure accurate
registration to the printed web. Utilizing recyclable glassine,
window patches are applied, creating a solid seal and flat patch.
By incorporating the module with the Mailstream Wrapper,
organizations can reduce the costs of pre-manufactured envelopes
and time associated with material handling and logistics.
Pitney Bowes is also introducing the new Print+ Direct Mail™
Color Inkjet System, which offers marketing service providers the
ability to add greater value to their client communications.
Designed specifically to meet the needs of direct mailers and
commercial printers, the system can print high quality, full color,
100% variable data messaging and graphics to drive increased
response. This flexible and cost-effective solution can be
configured for both in-line and offline printing and supports a
wide range of material substrates and inks.
New Software Enhancements
Pitney Bowes’s new DFWorks® Client Job Tracking module provides
comprehensive tracking and reporting solutions for production print
and mail operations with highly efficient, but complex, customer
communications workflows.
With the new software module, service bureaus and large
enterprises can now accurately and efficiently report on the status
and results of individual jobs when they are combined with other
jobs in a White Paper Factory™ environment and delivered through
multiple physical and digital communications channels.
In addition, organizations can take advantage of opportunities
to streamline their operations and lower overall costs through a
highly efficient, integrated print-and-mail environment. This
enables organizations to commingle jobs prior to printing,
resulting in larger and more efficient job runs, which can
significantly drive better resource utilization and postage
optimization.
New Capabilities
High-volume transactional mailers and service bureaus can also
now print Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) compatible jobs on
the IntelliJet 20® Printing System. This expanded application reach
will allow organizations that have invested in IPDS to benefit from
the high-quality and productivity of the IntelliJet 20® Printing
System to produce high-value, personalized color
communications.
Pitney Bowes is collaborating with MPI Tech, a leading member of
the AFP Consortium, on this new capability for the IntelliJet 20®
Printing System. Through this collaboration, the two companies will
leverage a customized IS/3 complaint version of MPI Tech’s MIPS
(MPI IPDS Portable Software) to manage IPDS data streams.
This enhancement illustrates Pitney Bowes’s continuing
investment in its IntelliJet® family of printing systems to help
meet the needs of high-volume transactional mailers around the
world. Recently, Pitney Bowes announced a software enhancement to
the IntelliJet Print Process Manager 3.1 that enables higher
performance processing of critical print applications including
extended and scalable high resolution PDF document workflows to
help operations easily scale processing power to meet their
evolving printing needs.
This latest software development also follows the recent
introduction of new printhead technology and color inks on the high
speed IntelliJet 20® Printing System, enabling full-color
processing at up to 400 feet-per-minute.
About Pitney Bowes:
Delivering more than 90 years of invention, Pitney Bowes
provides business communications software, mailing systems and
services that integrate physical and digital communications
channels. Long known for making its customers more productive,
Pitney Bowes is increasingly helping other companies grow their
business through advanced customer communications management.
Pitney Bowes is a $5.3 billion company with 29,000 employees
worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every connection is a new opportunity™.
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