Patent ID: 7357080

Claim:
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, mailpieces being comprised of variable compositions of the envelope sheets and content pages within the continuous web, the method comprising: printing content pages onto the continuous web such that two side-by-side content pages are printed across the width of the web, the content pages printed to be rectangular and having a long dimension parallel to the length of the web and a short direction parallel to the width of the web; printing envelope sheets in series with the side-by side content pages with a single envelope sheet positioned across the entire width of the web; and printing a control code on one or more of the sheets for a given mailpiece, the control code including information for controlling assembly of the mailpiece, the control code providing variable instructions for handling the variable compositions of envelope sheets and content pages that comprise mailpieces.