4 • Running Mail
1Determining the Correct Postage Mode
This section contains three charts to help you determine the correct post- age mode, as well as whether or not you will need to feed your mail or print a tape.
Feeding Mail or Printing Tape?
1.If your mail requires no application of postage, see Chart C on the fol- lowing page to choose your mode.
2.If your mail requires postage, you must determine if you can print di- rectly on your mail.
You can feed mail if your pieces of mail are:
•under 5/8in. (15.9mm) thick.
•over 3.5 in. x 5 in. or under 13 in. x 10 in.
•under 10 lbs.
•not too thin (such as fliers, or Tyvek® envelopes) or too fragile (such as air mail and onion skin envelopes) to pass through the feeder.
•Meet the other requirements for mail feeding listed in Appendix C, Specifications in this guide.
3.If your mail meets the above requirements for feeding, select the ap- propriate mode from chart A below.
4.If your mail does NOT meet the requirements for direct printing, you MUST print a postage tape. Select the applicable postage mode from chart B on the following page.
Chart A - Printing on Mail
If: | Use this Mode: |
You know the amount of postage need- | Key In Postage |
ed for your piece of mail. |
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You are running postcards. | Key In Postage |
You do not know the weight of your | Attached Scale |
piece of mail. |
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The pieces of mail are different weights | WOW™ - Weigh on the Way |
but fall within the guidelines listed |
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above and in the Specifications in |
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Appendix C in this guide. |
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All pieces of mail are identical. | Weight First Piece (only avail- |
| able with WOW™) |
Your pieces of mail vary in types, sizes, | Differential Weighing |
and/or weights. |
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