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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1995
Thomas A D'Andrea, Middlebury, CT (US);
Edward J Naclerio, Madison, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A postage metering system comprising: printing apparatus, the printing apparatus including structure for printing a postage indicia having a first portion including a postage value and a second portion including a town circle; accounting apparatus, the accounting including structure for accounting for the postage value, the accounting apparatus including structure for storing data descriptive of a bit mapped image of the second portion having a predetermined resolution, the accounting apparatus including structure for transferring the descriptive data to the printing apparatus; the printing apparatus including structure for requesting the postage value from the accounting apparatus and receiving therefrom the first portion and thus the postage value, the printing apparatus including structure for generating the bit mapped image of the second portion based on the descriptive data thereof, and the printing apparatus including structure for merging the first portion and bit mapped image of the second portion for printing the postage indicia and thus the postage value and town circle.