EP1096429A3 - Printing postage stamps with embedded information - Google Patents

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EP1096429A3
EP1096429A3 EP00203552A EP00203552A EP1096429A3 EP 1096429 A3 EP1096429 A3 EP 1096429A3 EP 00203552 A EP00203552 A EP 00203552A EP 00203552 A EP00203552 A EP 00203552A EP 1096429 A3 EP1096429 A3 EP 1096429A3
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digital image
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information
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Xin Eastman Kodak Co. Patent Legal Staff Wen
Chris W. Eastman Kodak Co. Honsinger
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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
    • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
    • G07B2017/00524—Printheads
    • G07B2017/00532—Inkjet
    • 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
    • G07B2017/00637—Special printing techniques, e.g. interlacing
    • 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
    • G07B2017/00637—Special printing techniques, e.g. interlacing
    • G07B2017/00645—Separating print into fixed and variable parts

Abstract

A digital printing apparatus is disclosed for printing on a receiver a postal image having invisible embedded information in response to a digital image having a plurality of pixels each having at least one pixel value and input information to embedded. The digital printing apparatus receives the digital image and the input information. The receiver includes a plurality of perforated peelable portions or a mailing envelope. The apparatus responds to the input information and the digital image for modifying a predetermined number of pixel values of pixels in the digital image with the input information so that the input information is embedded in the digital image and prints a postal stamp image on the receiver in accordance with the modified digital image having the embedded information wherein the embedded information is invisible to unaided human eyes that can subsequently be extracted.
EP00203552A 1999-10-25 2000-10-12 Printing postage stamps with embedded information Withdrawn EP1096429A3 (en)

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US426253 1999-10-25

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CN (1) CN1295931A (en)
AU (1) AU6668600A (en)
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CA (1) CA2316786A1 (en)
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