Franking Machines

Indepth Comments from customers and suppliers regarding the UK Franking Machines industry.

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Frama Franking Machines - Matrix F2, F4 & F6 Ink Cartridge Refilling

Mailcoms have led the way in franking machine ink cartridge refilling and recycling for a while now and is constantly looking to increase its product and service Range. We're pleased to announce we can now refill most Frama franking machine ink cartridges including the new Matrix Range.

Ecomail / Officemail / Accessmail
Mailcoms can now replace the ribbon & spools inside the ink cartridge, The cartridge would be returned with the same amount of impressions as though it was new.

Mailmax Series
Mailcoms have now developed its own ink and bag for your Mailmax franking machine, this product has now finished its testing phase and is due to be submitted to the Royal Mail shortly for approval. Please keep your empties!!

Matrix F Series
Modern technology has allowed franking machine manufacturers to protect high revenue streams by introducing microchips to their ink cartridges. These microchips are often programmed to time out after a certain time period or a certain number of impressions. Franking machines often then either time out or stop working alerting that the ink has expired.

The Matrix F series is no exception to this latest technology, one customer returned to us a supposedly empty Matrix F2 cartridge where it had only used around 15% of the ink! Although with the Matrix F series it's not so much the refilling but the microchip that's proved to be challenging. The Matrix F series ink cartridge is quite simply two HP45 ink cartridge filled with non fluorescent red ink and a Microchip affixed to one of them.

The Matrix F series uses a short range 'contactless' memory chip with 4096 bit EEPROM. This is basically a microchip with an antenna to send and receive data to and from the franking machine to tell it when stop working and to show the message that the ink is either out of date or has ran out even though much of the ink still remains.

Customers have been asking us to offer a refill service and we are pleased to confirm we are very close to it. Although the microchip used for this cartridge has an 'Anti Clone' function embedded into it we have been developing our own identical program for this chip that performs the same function and therefore allowing us to refill and reset your ink cartridge. The ink we will use is recycled original UK franking machine ink extracted from similar HP45 style UK franking ink cartridges. This ensures the ink cartridge will print and perform as good as it would as if it were new. Again, keep your empties!!

Refilling and resetting your franking machine ink cartridges is not only more environmentally friendly but also far more cost effective.

For more information call 08450 530930 or visit or dedicated franking cartridge recycling website at www.frankingcartridgerecycling.co.uk or visit our main website at www mailcoms.co.uk.

Frama and Matrix F are trademarks of Frama AG

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Franking Machines - Postage Discounts Calculator

Mailcoms are pleased to launch their easy to use unique online postage calculator for franking machine users.

This postage discount calculator not only works out the discounts you'll receive for using a franking machine but it will also recommend a machine and inform you of the running costs you'll likely to experience in some of our lower volume machines.

You'll find this unique calculator at: http://www.mailcoms.co.uk/Franking_calculator4.html.

This is the only online system of its kind and will enhance you experience when looking to choose a franking machine.

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Franking Machines & Ink Cartridge Recycling / Refilling / Refill

Mailcoms Ltd are proud to announce they have launch the only dedicated franking machine ink cartridge recycling service in the UK.

From this site you can send in your empties for recycling and refilling.

Models include:
Neopost IJ25 / Autostamp Franking Machines
Neopost I35 / IJ40 / IJ45 / IJ50 Franking Machines
Neopost IJ65 / IJ70 / IJ80 Franking machines
Neopost IS 330 / IS350 / IS420 / IS430 / IS460 / IS480 Franking Machines
Frama Mailspirit / Mailmax / Matrix F2 / Matrix F4 & F6 Franking Machines
Frama Ecomail / Accessmail / Officemail Franking Machines
FP Mailing Mymail / Ultimail Franking Machines
Pitney Bowes DM390 / DP200 / DP400

Most cartridges are refilled using original UK franking machine ink.

For more information please visit www.frankingcartridgerecycling.co.uk or call 08450 530930.

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