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A system for preparing shipping documents includes a processor, a keyboard, a display, a memory and a printer. Associated with the printer are a single sheet feeder, a batch feeder and an endless form feeder. The system is capable of preparing a wide variety of waybills and other shipping forms. The

A system for preparing shipping documents includes a processor, a keyboard, a display, a memory and a printer. Associated with the printer are a single sheet feeder, a batch feeder and an endless form feeder. The system is capable of preparing a wide variety of waybills and other shipping forms. The system is also able to prepare automatically all shipping documents required for a mass shipment to a user-defined group of recipients. A user activated “help”function provides information specific to the type of data that the user is attempting to enter at the time the help function is activated. There is also a “rare shopping”function that allows the user to define for each shipping mode a group of other shipping modes for rate comparison purposes.

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An apparatus for preparing shipping documents required by parcel carriers who have different types of forms for shipment of articles, comprising: (a) weight data entry means for entering data representing a weight of an article to be shipped, a printer, a memory, a keyboard; (b) a processor connecte

An apparatus for preparing shipping documents required by parcel carriers who have different types of forms for shipment of articles, comprising: (a) weight data entry means for entering data representing a weight of an article to be shipped, a printer, a memory, a keyboard; (b) a processor connected to the weight data entry means, the printer, the memory, and the keyboard; (c) first means for feeding single forms to the printer; (d) second means for storing a batch of forms and feeding the forms of the batch to the printer; and (e) third feeding means for feeding continuous forms to the printer; said memory storing carrier form data for a plurality of carriers and said keyboard being operable to send a carrier selection signal, said signal indicating selection of one of said plurality of carriers; and said processor being programmed to: (i) receive said carrier selection signal; and (ii) select, in accordance with the carrier form data for said selected one of said plurality of carriers, one of said first, second and third means to feed a form to said printer.