EP1677260A2 - Vorrichtung zur Konzeption und Maschine zum Frankieren einer personalisierten Postvorlage - Google Patents

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EP1677260A2
EP1677260A2 EP05301115A EP05301115A EP1677260A2 EP 1677260 A2 EP1677260 A2 EP 1677260A2 EP 05301115 A EP05301115 A EP 05301115A EP 05301115 A EP05301115 A EP 05301115A EP 1677260 A2 EP1677260 A2 EP 1677260A2
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Hervé BIENAIME
Marc Divine
Eric Magliulo
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Quadient Technologies France SA
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G07B2017/0058—Printing of code
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G07B2017/00604—Printing of advert or logo

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  • the present invention relates to the general field of franking machines. More specifically, the invention relates to a device for designing custom mail templates, and a machine for franking these personalized mail.
  • the personalization of mail may for example consist of printing on the envelope slogans advertising or messages for a particular category of recipients.
  • US 6,816,838 discloses a mail production system in which each article comprises a bar code representative of a set of personalization data to be printed on this article.
  • This barcode is read by an insertion machine which prints the personalization data identified by this barcode on the article.
  • This personalization data may in particular contain an advertising graphic image previously stored in a memory of the insertion machine.
  • Such a system has in particular a major drawback, in that it provides no tool to easily design the personalization data.
  • this system does not control that it is certified personalization data that is stored in the franking machine, and finally printed on the mail piece.
  • This design device thus allows the control of personalization data that can be printed on a mail piece.
  • the means for creating and editing the personalized mail template remain under the control of the design device, so that only the graphic functions authorized by this device can be used.
  • This design device therefore has two main functions, namely a provision of tools for creating and editing models for a client device connected to the network, and means of archiving certified models for this client device.
  • a company using this design device can thus ensure that the personalization data that will be printed on these mail items will meet compliance criteria.
  • the computer file representative of the mail template is in XML format.
  • This format is indeed particularly suitable for hierarchizing, in the form of objects, the constituent elements of the personalized model, to to know the general model of mail used, and all the elements of personalization (text, images, ...) associated or not with positions.
  • the positions of the personalization data are fixed in a predetermined area of the general model, for example to meet postal regulations.
  • the means for creating and editing the device according to the invention make it possible to freely position the personalization data in the non-reserved areas of the mail article template.
  • the validation means of the device are able to calculate and insert a signature in the computer file representative of the certified mail template.
  • This characteristic advantageously allows to control in a certain way, and automatic, that no modification of the personalized model has been made by a malicious third party.
  • this franking machine prints on the mail items only the personalization data that has been previously certified by the device under the control of a certifying body.
  • the franking machine verifies the validity of the signature inserted by the design device in the computer file representative of the certified mail template.
  • Figure 1 shows a device 10 for designing a custom mail template according to the invention in a preferred embodiment.
  • This design device 10 can be connected to a telecommunication network 5 via communication means 12.
  • This network 5 may for example be the Internet network.
  • the communication means 12 are adapted to implement TCP IP protocol layers known to those skilled in the art.
  • This design device 10 comprises in particular a processor 14, a read-only memory 15, a random access memory 16, a keyboard 17 and a screen 18, the latter two elements being connected to a bus system of the device 10 via an input port. exit 13.
  • the design device 10 comprises a library 22 accessible remotely by a client device CL1 connected to the telecommunications network 5.
  • This library 22 stores general mail templates MG1, MG2, MG3.
  • a general mail template MG is shown in Figure 2A.
  • This general mail template MG defines the main characteristics of a mail item, eg, its type, size, and the main areas of this article, for example the postage area 1 and the address area 2. the recipient.
  • a user of the client device CL1 wishing to create a personalized mail template can view a general mail template, for example the template MG1, physically stored in the library 22 of the design device 10.
  • the client device CL1 can transmit, via the telecommunication network 5, personalization data dp to the design device 10.
  • These personalization data dp are for example constituted by advertising information, or slogans.
  • the read-only memory 15 includes creation and editing programs making it possible to remotely modify the general model MG1 chosen by the client 1.
  • these creation and editing programs make it possible, for example, for the user of the client CL1 to resize the general model, to change the colors, to insert text or images.
  • ImageMagick type design software available on the Internet at http://www.imagemagick.org/, or software known in the publishing world under the names Adobe PageMaker, or Adobe Photoshop (registered trademarks).
  • these creation and editing programs can be used to customize the general model MG1 with the personalization data transmitted by the client CL1.
  • these personalization data DP are necessarily intended to be printed in a predetermined area of the general model MG1, typically imposed by the postal regulations.
  • the CL1 client user can freely position his personalization data within authorized limits of the general model MG1, or even on the back of this model.
  • the memory 24 is protected in that it can not be accessed by any external device.
  • the protected memory 24 includes a PM2 model project associated with the client CL1.
  • This model project is constituted in this example by a PM computer file comprising a reference to a general model MG1 and two personalization objects dp, each of them being constituted by a personalization data item (for example a text, an image). associated with a pos position in the general model MG1.
  • a personalization data item for example a text, an image
  • the design device 10 comprises means used by an operator of this device 10, to validate the PM2 template project, when the operator recognizes that the personalization data proposed by the client 1 meet certain criteria, for example to ethical criteria.
  • the model project thus becomes a certified mail model MC as shown in Figure 2C.
  • client cl1 has a certified mail template MC1 stored in accessible memory 26 and a draft template PM2 stored in protected memory 24.
  • the computer file storing PM model projects and / or MC certified models are computer files in XML format.
  • This franking machine 30 consists in particular of two parts, namely a base 31 mainly comprising a mail item supply module, a weighing module and motors driving transport rolls of the articles to be franked to a head module 32.
  • This head module 32 mainly comprises a print head 60 for franking the mail items and a secure accounting module 40 generally known as the PSD or "meter”.
  • the franking machine 30 comprises, preferably in the head 32, means 50 for obtaining and reading a computer file MC1 representative of a certified mail custom model as described above with reference to Figure 1.
  • the means 50 for obtaining and reading the computer file MC1 are suitable for obtaining and reading computer files in XML format.
  • the franking means obtain, from the computer file MC1, the personalization data dp to be printed on each article of this batch, these data being printed at the appropriate pos position by the print head 60 .
  • this pos position is a predetermined fixed position, for example imposed by the postal regulations.
  • the franking means are adapted to print these data at any pos position, for example on the back of the mailpiece.
  • the franking machine 30 includes means for verifying the validity of a GIS signature included in the MC1 certified custom pattern.
  • the verification means calculate a new signature SIG2 of the file MC1 and compare this new signature SIG2 with that (SIG) inserted in this file by the design device 10.
  • these means are adapted to prohibit the printing of personalization data on the article if the signature is considered invalid.
  • an alarm may be generated for the user of the franking machine 30.

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