Franking apparatus and method
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Nov 18, 2004
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Feb 2, 2004
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Jan 31, 2003
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A franking apparatus for and a method of franking mail items with postage indicia for one of a plurality of mail carriers, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of carrier print stores, each being assigned to a respective one of the carriers and for storing print information unique to the respective carrier; a common print store for storing print information common to each of the carriers; a printing module including a printer for printing postage indicia for mail items; and a control module for controlling operation of the apparatus to frank mail items with postage indicia for selected ones of the carriers, wherein each postage indicium includes a carrier-specific element derived utilizing print information from the carrier print store for the respective carrier and a common element derived utilizing print information from the common print store.
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