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News Release from: KAS Paper Systems | Subject: Mailmaster 465HS
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 August 2006
Folder-Enveloper Transforms Mailing
Operations
Changes by Royal Mail to the pricing of letters and parcels in the UK from August 21, was one the main reasons why OPAL invested in a KAS Mailmaster 465HS high speed folding and enveloping machine.
Changes by Royal Mail to the pricing of letters and parcels in the UK from August 21, with the introduction of Pricing in Proportion (PiP), was one the main reasons why Outsourced Professional Administration (OPAL) invested in a KAS Mailmaster 465HS high speed folding and enveloping machine The KAS Mailmaster 465HS has four insert stations and what is claimed to be a fast sheet feeder and folding unit with bar code reading
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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John Tubridy, the scanning, statement and archiving manager at OPAL, commented: "As well as automating a process that had previously been done by hand, we wanted to manage the extra costs on outgoing post.
By changing from C4 to C5 envelopes, we could make significant savings, which is important for large volume users like ourselves." He continued: "To do that, we specified a mailing and enveloping machine that could fold A4 letters in half, separate those with incorrect UK addresses together with all foreign correspondence and automatically add up to four inserts for reply envelopes, booklets, flyers and policy documents." OPAL, based in St Albans, is a third party professional administration company, providing financial products, like ISAs and PEPs, to companies that sell the products with their name on but do not manage them.
In the last year they collated and mailed in more than 500,000 envelopes by hand, sometimes employing over 30 temporary staff.
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The company started evaluating equipment 18 months ago.
Tubridy recalled: "We selected the KAS Mailmaster 465HS because it was the only machine of its type that could give us the flexibility of inserting in to C4, C5 and DL envelopes.
The change-over is very quick from one format to another.
High levels of security are essential in the financial industry and The Mailmaster is barcode driven.
It reads the barcodes on all documents, separates the foreign correspondence as these have different postal rates." And he added: "All UK letters with the wrong postal codes are sent to a separate delivery tray and returned to our offices for correction.
It gives full management on-screen reporting so, for example, we know how many envelopes for each project, how many miss-feeds, where they occur on the line and why.
It also enables us to work out how many man hours it takes and how much paper we have used." He said that KAS Paper System's proximity in Dunstable was also considered useful in the company's evaluation.
OPAL's working relationship with KAS from the beginning was first-class.
The company was always available and often it answered OPAL's queries over the phone.
OPAL is operating the machine from 7.30am to 5.00pm at speeds of 7,000 an hour for letters and proportionally slower, depending upon how many prime documents are accumulated before folding.
OPAL plans to become the central mailing and distribution centre for the company.
Tubridy said: "We now have the facility here for correspondence to be sent over the network from head office, printed, collated and inserted in to envelopes using the KAS Mailmaster.
We still have a lot of capacity and would like to take in either ad hoc or regular mailing and distribution work from other companies in the area.".
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