Printing Postage Tapes - Pitney Bowes DM1100 Operator's Manual

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Printing
Postage Tapes
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Print postage tapes for:
• Packages
• Onion skin/airmail type envelopes
• Tyvek® envelopes
• Envelopes that are thicker than 3/4"
• Any pieces of mail that are outside the limits specified for mailing mate-
rials - see Specifications, Mailing Materials in Chapter 12 of this guide
for details.
To use this feature you must know the amout of postage you want to print.
You can easily determine this using a scale.
CAUTION: Use only fresh rolls of Pitney Bowes tape to avoid
distortion or stalls in the mechanism and possible loss of post-
age.
To print a postage tape:
1. Turn on the machine.
2. Make sure the date on the main screen is the same as the date you are
providing the mail to the Post Office. If it isn't, see Chapter 5, Mailing
System Set Up.
3. Press the Mode key on the IntelliLink® Control Centre.
4. Select Attached Scale or Manual Weight Entry if you know the weight
of your mail piece.
• If you select Manual Weight Entry, key in the weight using the
numeric keys.
• If you select Attached Scale, place the mail piece on the scale.
5. Press the Class key and select the class and any special services you
want.
6. Move the "wet/dry" tape lever:
• down for dry tapes or pressure-sensitive tapes,
• up for wetting gummed tapes..
Dry Tape
Setting
7. To print one tape, press the Tape key. To print multiple tapes:
• Press the Clear key and then enter the number of tapes (1-100) you
want.
• Press the Tape key.
The mailing system ejects dry tapes until the number you entered is
reached. The system won't print another wet tape until you remove the
previous one. This prevents tapes from sticking to each other.
Wet Tape
Setting
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