Pitney Bowes DM900, DM800 Determining the Correct Postage Mode, Feeding Mail or Printing Tape?

4 • Running Mail

1Determining the Correct Postage Mode

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 directly on your mail. You can feed mail if your pieces of mail are:

•under 1/2 in. thick (DM800™) or 3/4 in. thick (DM900™).

•over 3.5 in. x 5 in. or under 13 in. x 15 in.

•under 5.0 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 Chapter 12, Specifications in this guide.

3.If your mail meets the above requirements, select the appropriate 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:	Then use this mode:
You know the amount of postage needed for	Key In Postage
your piece of mail.
You do not know the weight of your piece of	Attached Scale
mail.
The pieces of mail are different weights but fall	WOW® - Weigh-On-The-
	Way® (An option you may be
within the guidelines listed above and in the
	able to purchase. Not avail-
Specifications in Chapter 12 in this guide.
	able on all systems.)
All pieces of mail are identical.	Weight First Piece (only avail-
	able with WOW®)
Your pieces of mail vary in types, sizes, and/or	Differential Weighing (An
	option you may be able to pur-
weights.	chase. Not available on all
	systems.)

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