Pitney Bowes DM900 Postal Equipment User Manual


 
3 • Mail in a Minute
3-4 SV60861 Rev. F
Printing
Postage Tapes
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 Specification
s, Mailing Materials in Chapter 12 of this guide
for details.
To use this feature you must know the amount of postage you want to print.
You can ea
sily determine this using a scale.
To print a postage tape:
1. Press the Mode key on th
e Inte
lliLink® Control Center.
2. Select Key In Post
age.
3. When the “Ready “ screen appears, use the numeric keypad to enter in
the post
age amount.
4. Press Enter to conf
irm the postage amount.
5. Locate the tape exit on the right side of the machine.
6. Move the “wet/dry” tape lever
down for dry tapes or pressure-sensitive tapes,
up for wetting gummed tapes.
7. Press the Tap
e key to print one tape. To print multiple tapes:
Enter the number of tapes you want to print using the number keys.
Press the Tap
e key.
8. The mailing system ejects dry tapes until the number you ent
ered is
reached. The machine won’t print another wet tape until you remove
the previous one. This prevents tapes from sticking to each other.
9. Remove tapes from the tape exit on the right side of the machine.
CAUTION: Use only fresh rolls of Pitney Bowes tape to avoid
distortion or jams in the mechanism and possible loss of post-
age.
NOTE: The machine ejects dry tapes until the number you entered is reached.
The machine will not print another wet tape until you remove the previous one.
This prevents tapes from sticking to each other.
Dry Tape
Setting
Wet Tape
Setting