Postage meter machine with a printing ink pushing-out post value characters pressure device

摘要

A postage printing machine is described wherein postage indicia are formed with an electronically controlled ink jet printing device. A rotating drum carrying a conventiona die printing plate is moved past the ink jet printing device, the latter being adapted to be actuated in predetermined sequence to project droplets of ink through apertures formed in the die plate and onto an envelope, label or other document on which postage markings are to be made.