Pitney Bowes DM1000 User Manual

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4 • Running Mail
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SV60951 Rev. B
Determining 
the Correct 
Postage 
Mode
Feeding Mail or Printing Tape?
1. If your mail requires no application of postage, see Chart C on the fol-
lowing page to choose your mode.
2. If your mail requires postage, you must determine if you can print 
directly on your mail. You can feed mail if your pieces of mail are:
• under 5/8in. (15.9mm) thick.
• over 3.5 in. x 5 in. or under 13 in. x 15 in.
• under 1.0 lbs (16 oz.).
• not too thin (such as fliers, or Tyvek® envelopes) or too fragile 
(such as air mail and onion skin envelopes) to pass through the 
feeder.
• Meet the other requirements for mail feeding listed in Chapter 12, 
Specifications
 in this guide.
3. If your mail meets the above requirements, select the appropriate mode 
from Chart A below.
4. If your mail does NOT meet the requirements for direct printing, you 
MUST print a postage tape. Select the applicable postage mode from 
Chart B on the following page.
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Chart A - Printing on Mail
If:
Then use this mode:
You know the amount of postage needed for 
your piece of mail.
Key In Postage
You do not know the weight of your piece of 
mail.
Attached
 Scale
The pieces of mail are different weights but fall 
within the guidelines listed above and in the 
Specifications
 in Chapter 12 in this guide. 
WOW® - Weigh-On-The-
Way® 
All pieces of mail are identical.
Weight First Piece (only avail-
able with WOW®)
Your pieces of mail vary in types, sizes, and/or 
weights.
Differential Weighing