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Printing Postage Tapes

Print postage tapes for:

Packages

Onion skin/airmail type envelopes

Tyvek® envelopes

Envelopes that are thicker than 5/8”

Any pieces of mail that are outside the limits specified for mailing mate-

rials - see Specifications, Mailing Materials in Chapter 12 of this guide for details.

You can request up to 99 tapes at a time. The tapes exit into the stacker. The DM500™ and DM550™ Digital Mailing System is designed to use a special pressure sensitive adhesive tape made exclusively for it.

CAUTION: Use only fresh rolls of Pitney Bowes tape to avoid distortion or jams in the mechanism and possible loss of post- age.

To print a postage tape:

1.Locate the tape exit on the right side of the mailing system.

2.With the correct postage set on the main screen, press the Tape key to print one tape.

3.To print more than one tape, use the numeric keys to type in the num- ber of tapes you want, then press the Tape key. The system prints the tapes.

NOTE: Do not lift any of the covers on the mailing system while the tape is print- ing or the system will stop printing, cut and eject the tape.

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Pitney Bowes DM550, DM500 manual Printing Postage Tapes