Camera verification (including personalized document matching) is becoming common throughout the print, mail, & packaging industries. Older used mailing equipment is being updated more and more with new camera verification attachments and software. The following article will lead us through the topic Proving accuracy with Postcard Mailers production.
Have you ever wondered about the technology used to ensure that a document on the inside of an envelope matches the address printed on the outside? Or a credit card with information that matches the carrier that it is glued to? Or the inside page of a booklet matching the outside cover (both personalized).
Especially in the insurance, financial, and healthcare industries. Increased emphasis on targeted marketing. Marketing products (whether they're printed, online, or via text messages) are increasingly targeted towards a specific audience. Such printed documents are more expensive to produce, and they also include more personalized information. This trend makes it essential to make sure each prospect receives the right material and that some certifiable report can prove accuracy.
Adding camera verification to mailing equipment used to be an expensive endeavor, but improved technology and "off the shelf software" has substantially reduced the cost to upgrade equipment and use camera verification systems for mail matching, inserter read-write, and OCR (Optical Character Recognition). It's now easier (and less expensive) than ever to generate reports to prove the accuracy of the work running through your mailing equipment and binding machines.
It's all done by Flex Systems automatically. FlexMail USPS Mail Processing also offers a lot of extra free features, such as NOCA - MOVE Updates, Palletizing, etc. Flex Stream is a sister product. It allows users to generate documents for intelligent inserting equipment. Someone making variable page statements for inserting material needs unique identifiers. This is how the inserter distinguishes between papers and sets of records.
Other traditional examples include ensuring that two variable documents match each other within an envelope, matching a personalized text to the pre-printed address on the outside of a container, or matching credit cards or gift cards to personalized carriers. But camera verification systems can now do so much more. Checking to make sure there are no blank documents. This can happen during the printing process, but a camera can detect a blank sheet on folding equipment or other bindery equipment.
Checking for correct orientation On a Printed Page. If an operator merges two stacks of printed material, what if they place a handful of pages upside-down or backward? A camera system can detect this and stop a folder or some other piece of finishing equipment. Read-Write & Track. If you have a personalized document, page, or signature, and it has to match an outer record that is also customized, it's much easier to print the outside material "on the fly" as opposed to pre-printing and matching.
FlexMail also offers Tracking, for Read / Write or Read and Print on an inserter. So it can read a 2D code on an upstream document (in the inserter) and send the data to an inkjet printer to address a matching name on the outside of the envelope. Flex mail can also use an IBM verification camera, and check it against the original print file. It can also be programmed to shut down the inkjet printer or inserter if the IMB code fails to read.
Have you ever wondered about the technology used to ensure that a document on the inside of an envelope matches the address printed on the outside? Or a credit card with information that matches the carrier that it is glued to? Or the inside page of a booklet matching the outside cover (both personalized).
Especially in the insurance, financial, and healthcare industries. Increased emphasis on targeted marketing. Marketing products (whether they're printed, online, or via text messages) are increasingly targeted towards a specific audience. Such printed documents are more expensive to produce, and they also include more personalized information. This trend makes it essential to make sure each prospect receives the right material and that some certifiable report can prove accuracy.
Adding camera verification to mailing equipment used to be an expensive endeavor, but improved technology and "off the shelf software" has substantially reduced the cost to upgrade equipment and use camera verification systems for mail matching, inserter read-write, and OCR (Optical Character Recognition). It's now easier (and less expensive) than ever to generate reports to prove the accuracy of the work running through your mailing equipment and binding machines.
It's all done by Flex Systems automatically. FlexMail USPS Mail Processing also offers a lot of extra free features, such as NOCA - MOVE Updates, Palletizing, etc. Flex Stream is a sister product. It allows users to generate documents for intelligent inserting equipment. Someone making variable page statements for inserting material needs unique identifiers. This is how the inserter distinguishes between papers and sets of records.
Other traditional examples include ensuring that two variable documents match each other within an envelope, matching a personalized text to the pre-printed address on the outside of a container, or matching credit cards or gift cards to personalized carriers. But camera verification systems can now do so much more. Checking to make sure there are no blank documents. This can happen during the printing process, but a camera can detect a blank sheet on folding equipment or other bindery equipment.
Checking for correct orientation On a Printed Page. If an operator merges two stacks of printed material, what if they place a handful of pages upside-down or backward? A camera system can detect this and stop a folder or some other piece of finishing equipment. Read-Write & Track. If you have a personalized document, page, or signature, and it has to match an outer record that is also customized, it's much easier to print the outside material "on the fly" as opposed to pre-printing and matching.
FlexMail also offers Tracking, for Read / Write or Read and Print on an inserter. So it can read a 2D code on an upstream document (in the inserter) and send the data to an inkjet printer to address a matching name on the outside of the envelope. Flex mail can also use an IBM verification camera, and check it against the original print file. It can also be programmed to shut down the inkjet printer or inserter if the IMB code fails to read.
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