Pitney Bowes DocuMatch, Application Notes

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Integrated Mail System
DocuMatch Application Notes
For some jobs you may want to control which feeders to
use on a piece-by-piece basis. For example, if you are
printing invoices and some of them have a zero or credit
balance, you may not want to include a reply envelope. Or,
in a mailing to alumni, you may want to send a football
schedule to some and a soccer schedule to others. You
can accomplish this by sorting the mailing list into two
distinct groups and defining an appropriate job setup for
each.
You may also want to vary the information printed on the
envelopes from one piece to the next. For example, de-
pending on the recipient's account status, you might want
to print “Your account is past due” as a message line on
some of the envelopes. You may also want to vary the
return address from one envelope to the next.
You could accomplish any of these variations by sorting the
mailing list into groups and defining the appropriate job
setup for each group. In some cases, however, such sort-
ing may not be possible or desirable. Why? Because it's
best to have each job be as large as possible to qualify for
the maximum postal presort discount.
In these cases, use the control page feature to pass the
necessary information to the DocuMatch print driver. A
control page is a specially formatted page containing
machine instructions. It serves as the first page of each
document. It is not printed, but it uses information from
your database to control feeder operation and specify
envelope data. A sample document with a control page
appears on the next page.
In this example, a one-page letter is formatted in your word
processing application with a control page that is always
the first page of the document. The control information
always begins with ~Control Start~ and ends with ~Control
End~. The UpperCSF, LowerCSF and InsertF commands
control the operation of the upper and lower cut sheet
Customizing Your Mailpieces with Selective Inserting, Variable Length
Documents and Variable Envelope Data
What's a Control
Page?