Patent ID: 7699352
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: B31B,B65B

Abstract:
1. A method for producing a continuous web of printed material for use in creating mailpieces, the continuous web having a width and a length, the length comprised of a series of attached sheets, the series of attached sheets comprising envelope sheets and content pages, the envelope sheets and content pages being processed by a mail creation machine to form mailpieces, the mail creation machine having different mechanisms for processing envelope sheets and content sheets, the method comprising: printing content pages onto the continuous web in continuous groups of one or more content pages that correspond to pages for a given mailpiece; printing envelope sheets in series with the content pages, at least one of the envelope sheets corresponding to the given mailpiece; determining a processing time in the mail creation machine for a content page group for the given mailpiece; determining a processing time in the mail creation machine for the at least one envelope sheet for the given mailpiece; wherein the steps of printing the content pages and printing the envelope sheets includes a further step of separating the content page group and the envelope sheet for the given mailpiece, along a direction of the length of the web, so as to reduce a delay between completion of the content page group and of the envelope sheet in the machine, an amount of separation being a function of the determined processing times of the content page group and the envelope sheet.