Patent ID: 6939063

Claim:
A method of printing postal indicia on a custom sized envelope comprising, and not necessarily in the following order: assigning at least one custom sized envelope name to a custom sized envelope in client software that permits a plurality of custom sized envelopes to be created and stored; determining a size of said custom sized envelope; selecting a height of said custom sized envelope; selecting a width of said custom sized envelope; allowing a user to at least one of modify, add and delete a custom sized envelope name in the client software; accessing printer information stored in a server-based database; having the client software complete pre-rendering algorithms based on the envelope size selected by determining whether to virtualize; rendering a postal indicia in accordance with the selected width and height of said custom sized envelope, the postage indicia comprising machine readable data representing postage value; and printing the postal indicia on said custom sized envelope using the printer information from the server-based database to determine when it is necessary to virtualize and if so, what size paper to virtualize to.