The invention is a method and system for printing a postage meter indicia from a data processing system. The printing of the indicia is under control of an indicia control in an object linking and embedding (OLE2) environment. The method begins with instantiating an indicia control in the design application...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US6282524?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6282524 - Method and system of printing postage indicia from an envelope design application