Camera verification (including personalized document matching) is becoming common throughout the print, mail, & packaging industries. Older used mailing equipment is being updated more and more with new camera verification attachments and software. The following article will lead us through the topic Proving accuracy with Postcard Mailers production.
Have you ever wondered about the technology used to ensure that a document on the inside of an envelope matches the address printed on the outside? Or a credit card with information that matches the carrier that it is glued to? Or the inside page of a booklet matching the outside cover (both personalized).
Especially in the insurance, financial, and healthcare industries. Increased emphasis on targeted marketing. Marketing products (whether they're printed, online, or via text messages) are increasingly targeted towards a specific audience. Such printed documents are more expensive to produce, and they also include more personalized information. This trend makes it essential to make sure each prospect receives the right material and that some certifiable report can prove accuracy.
Adding camera verification to mailing equipment used to be an expensive endeavor, but improved technology and "off the shelf software" has substantially reduced the cost to upgrade equipment and use camera verification systems for mail matching, inserter read-write, and OCR (Optical Character Recognition). It's now easier (and less expensive) than ever to generate reports to prove the accuracy of the work running through your mailing equipment and binding machines.
It's all done by Flex Systems automatically. FlexMail USPS Mail Processing also offers a lot of extra free features, such as NOCA - MOVE Updates, Palletizing, etc. Flex Stream is a sister product. It allows users to generate documents for intelligent inserting equipment. Someone making variable page statements for inserting material needs unique identifiers. This is how the inserter distinguishes between papers and sets of records.
Flex Stream users can merely overlay the marks to existing PDF documents BEFORE they are printed. Why is this important? With statement work, it's common for the data to be prepared off-site by an IT team. The IT department doesn't always know the logic of the mechanical inserting equipment. So Flex Stream builds a logical bridge between IT and printing/mailing departments.
This includes large machines, such as Bell & Howell, Pitney-Bowes, and GBR. It also includes table-top models, such as Neopost, Pitney Bowes, Secap, Hasler, and Formax. But Flex Stream doesn't stop there. A final feature includes a camera interface, which makes it easy to do several things during the printing and inserting stages. It can read a 2D code on a product exiting an inserter or inkjet addressing printer, and "check it off" against the original file. It will also perform 2-way matches on Inserters, by comparing 2D or Data matrix codes.
And what's more, no more stopping production to re-order your stacks that somehow got out of sequence. Your direct mail equipment can suddenly begin to generate real profits because now you can offer genuinely personalized mail to your customers without having to purchase a new inserter! Buskers use real-time tracking methods that allow you to track the original personalized insert throughout the path of the inserter. It all starts with the concept of reading a "unique identifying mark" on the inserted pieces.
Have you ever wondered about the technology used to ensure that a document on the inside of an envelope matches the address printed on the outside? Or a credit card with information that matches the carrier that it is glued to? Or the inside page of a booklet matching the outside cover (both personalized).
Especially in the insurance, financial, and healthcare industries. Increased emphasis on targeted marketing. Marketing products (whether they're printed, online, or via text messages) are increasingly targeted towards a specific audience. Such printed documents are more expensive to produce, and they also include more personalized information. This trend makes it essential to make sure each prospect receives the right material and that some certifiable report can prove accuracy.
Adding camera verification to mailing equipment used to be an expensive endeavor, but improved technology and "off the shelf software" has substantially reduced the cost to upgrade equipment and use camera verification systems for mail matching, inserter read-write, and OCR (Optical Character Recognition). It's now easier (and less expensive) than ever to generate reports to prove the accuracy of the work running through your mailing equipment and binding machines.
It's all done by Flex Systems automatically. FlexMail USPS Mail Processing also offers a lot of extra free features, such as NOCA - MOVE Updates, Palletizing, etc. Flex Stream is a sister product. It allows users to generate documents for intelligent inserting equipment. Someone making variable page statements for inserting material needs unique identifiers. This is how the inserter distinguishes between papers and sets of records.
Flex Stream users can merely overlay the marks to existing PDF documents BEFORE they are printed. Why is this important? With statement work, it's common for the data to be prepared off-site by an IT team. The IT department doesn't always know the logic of the mechanical inserting equipment. So Flex Stream builds a logical bridge between IT and printing/mailing departments.
This includes large machines, such as Bell & Howell, Pitney-Bowes, and GBR. It also includes table-top models, such as Neopost, Pitney Bowes, Secap, Hasler, and Formax. But Flex Stream doesn't stop there. A final feature includes a camera interface, which makes it easy to do several things during the printing and inserting stages. It can read a 2D code on a product exiting an inserter or inkjet addressing printer, and "check it off" against the original file. It will also perform 2-way matches on Inserters, by comparing 2D or Data matrix codes.
And what's more, no more stopping production to re-order your stacks that somehow got out of sequence. Your direct mail equipment can suddenly begin to generate real profits because now you can offer genuinely personalized mail to your customers without having to purchase a new inserter! Buskers use real-time tracking methods that allow you to track the original personalized insert throughout the path of the inserter. It all starts with the concept of reading a "unique identifying mark" on the inserted pieces.
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