…The Connect+ Series is quite the breakthrough product. It is modular and completely field upgradeable, from black & red to full color, as well as speeds and other capabilities. It was developed in close collaboration with HP, who provided the industrial-grade inkjet technology. You can see it in action here.
Basically, you can program this “mega postage meter” to print logos, return addresses, messaging, graphics and the postal indicia in a single pass across the top of a blank envelope, with a length up to 15 inches.
A Pitney Bowes study reflected an improvement in open-ability of envelopes of 69% using this technology. Connect+ is connected to the “cloud,” operated through a simple touch screen, and can be accessed and managed from the desktop as well. It comes with a series of stock graphics, but adding new graphics and messaging is easy. It can also be configured with “weigh on the way” to compute postage on the fly.
Read full article at: Print CEO – Printing Industry News and Opinion – Pitney Bowes Launches Innovative Product at National Postal Forum.
