Moore Business Forms, Inc.

Michael W Anderson

Edmund G Van Malderghem

Dominick L Monico

G Russell Sornberger

David Hargreaves

Susan M Hoellig

Ernest E Badger

Blaine D Mischel

Drew S Johnson

A method and system for gathering and analyzing customer and purchasing information permits a retailer or retail chain to process transactional information involving large numbers of consumers and consumer products. Product information is gathered that uniquely identifies a specific product by type and manufacturer and grouped into generic product clusters. Consumers are similarly grouped into consumer clusters based on common consumer demographics and other characteristics. Consumer retail transactions are analyzed in terms of product and/or consumer clusters to determine relationships between the consumers and the products. Product, consumer, and transactional data are maintained in a relational database. Targeting of specific consumers with marketing and other promotional literature is based on consumer buying habits, needs, demographics, etc. A retailer queries the database using selected criteria, accumulates data from the database in response to that query, and makes prudent business and marketing decisions based on that response. Queried information from the database may be communicated to a printing subsystem for printing promotional literature directed to particular customers based on cluster information stored in the database.

Method and system for gathering and analyzing consumer purchasing

A business forms assembly and method of forming is provided wherein a continuous web defines a plurality of successive form sets and wherein the web is divided longitudinally by a slit indicator line to define adjacent form parts for each set. Carbonless transfer technology is employed, such that a back side or undersurface of one form part (the upper part) is coated with carbonless microcapsules, while a front side or upper surface of the adjacent form part (the lower part) is coated with a co-reactant resin coating. The arrangement permits variable information to be printed on the adjacent form parts as the web passes through a non-impact printer. Thereafter, the web is longitudinally slit, separating the adjacent form parts which are thereafter interstacked so that the coating on the undersurface of the upper form part lies in full surface engagement with the coating on the upper surface of the lower form part. The respective form parts may then be adhesively secured. Thereafter, information imaged onto the upper form part is simultaneously imaged onto the lower form part.

Process for providing a multiple part form for non-impact printer

A business form suitable for use as a packing list or invoice attached to the package, and having the portion which serves as a shipping label to which variable address information may be applied, is produced in a simple and effective manner. Label stock and a bond paper portion are glued together at an overlapping section. Tractor holes may be provided in the free edges of the label and bond portions to facilitate driving through a printer. An adhesive strip on a first face of the label stock and another adhesive strip on a second, opposite face of the bond portion, holds the sections of the form together when it is Z-folded (accordion folded). The release liner on the label stock is removed to apply the form onto a package. The first face of the form may be printed utilizing a non-impact printer, with variable information. The second face of the form may be printed with non-variable information at a manufacturing location.

Z-folded packing list/invoice

Disclosed is a multi-part form comprising a form set with a first form part having prerecorded information thereon and overlying a second form part. Variable information recorded on the first form part is transferred to the second form part, preferably by carbonless transfer using infrared adsorptive dyes, such that the variable information appearing on the second form part is readable by current standard facsimile machines. The second form part is preferably blank, although a minimal quantity of prerecorded information may be provided on the second form part. The second form part is then used as the transmission copy for a facsimile machine whereby reduced time and costs of transmission is effected. The received copy of the facsimile transmission may be provided with an overlay whereby a reproduction of the first form part, including both variable and prerecorded information, may be provided.

Multiple part facsimile form

Multiple part form for non-impact printer and related process

Method and apparatus are provided for forming an envelope wherein front and rear panels of an envelope are incorporated in continuous or discrete webs or sheets. Heat activatable adhesive is applied to three peripheral edge portions of one of the envelope panels in facing engagement with the other of the panels. The webs or sheets are fixed together and fed into a printing machine such as a table or desk top laser printer wherein the heat fusing rolls of the printer are utilized to activate the heat activatable adhesive to thereby secure the envelope panels together to form an envelope pocket. One of the envelope panels incorporates a sealing flap portion which may be provided with a rewettable adhesive pattern, while the facing portion of the opposed sheet may be provided with an antistick composition to prevent premature sticking between the sheets in the area of the sealing flap.

Envelope for table top laser printer

A continuous business form assembly provides custom addressed, outgoing envelopes filled with contents sometimes including return envelopes. The assembly comprises at least four webs, one of which is a self-imaging web. The self-imaging web is positioned and adapted to provide custom addresses on itself visible through outgoing envelope windows.

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Erie, NY, United States of America

Michael W Anderson