Pitney Bowes pitching small mail sorter for deregulated EU markets
Pitney Bowes is launching its Reliant Sorting Solution in the European market later this spring, aiming at smaller and mid-sized postal companies in newly deregulated markets. The Reliant sorter has a small-footprint design that would provide the smaller postal operator with fast, accurate and flexible processing, the company said, handling typically about 35,000 items per day.
The US mail technology giant believes the system could prove particularly attractive for small and mid-volume mail processing as more Eastern European countries open their postal markets to full competition.
Under Europe’s 2008 postal directive, the remaining 11 Member States are set to liberalise their postal markets from the start of 2013, including Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Pitney Bowes said its Reliant sorter will bring automation and “full integrity” to three core market segments, incoming mail, outgoing mail and the processing of internal mail, processing a range of mail types up to C5 envelopes, with an upgrade option available to process C4 flats.
With a modular design, the system can handle about 18,000 letters an hour, or 10,000 if the inline weighing feature is engaged.
Christoph Stehmann, Pitney Bowes’ vice president of European customer operations and document messaging technologies, said: “The Reliant offers convenience, creativity and control – enabling smaller volume mailers to maximise potential and build for the future.”
The Reliant Sorting Solution will be unveiled to the first European audiences at the Drupa 2012 print media trade show in Dusseldorf from 3-16 May.
IntelliJet
At the same trade fair, Pitney Bowes will also be showing off enhancements it has made to its IntelliJet Printing Systems, including new higher print speed options for high-volume transactional mailers.
The upgrades include an optional print speed for the IntelliJet 30 and 42 Printing Systems allowing production of A4 applications at up to 6,570 impressions per minute.
An option is also available to double the speed of the IntelliJet 20 for colour printing of transactional statements, and an expanded paper printing range including coated papers.
Ramesh Ratan, the president of Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies, said: “The enhancements to our IntelliJet printing systems can help enterprises and third party service bureaus move to digital colour print and mail, helping them more effectively produce relevant, personalised transactional and transpromo statements that drive better business results.”
