5 • Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)

OMR Availability

Your machine can be equipped with Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) functionality either on installation or as an added option after purchase. The machine can store up to 10 different codes for you to select when creating Job Definitions that use OMR.

What is OMR?

An OMR mark is normally a dark solid line on a sheet of light coloured paper that is perpendicular to the direction of travel of the paper. This line must be sufficiently thick, dense and placed in the correct area to trigger the OMR scanner on the system.

There are many different OMR options available to you, from a Single Mark option to Multi-Markoptions, which have a maximum of 24 marks.

Typical OMR marks

The OMR scanner, working with the OMR system software, checks for one or

more different marks on the sheets while they are being fed through the system. The tracking of these OMR marks by the system will aid the integrity of your mailing through error checking, so generally the more marks you use, the better the integrity of your Mail Piece.

As mentioned on page 7-3 of this guide, there are limits on how many sheets the machine can fold at one time. These limits are dependent on the paper weight of your sheets, and fold type selected, and should not be exceeded. It is therefore strongly recommended that, when programming your system to print your OMR sheets, these limits are taken into account. If these limits are exceeded, it could result in a material stoppage or damage to the material and the machine.

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