1. Why choose Brother printers? Since building the world's first high-speed Dot-Matrix printer in 1971 we’ve continued to provide reliable, high-quality printing for a range of environments and users.

2. The present invention discloses an automated electronically controlled postage meter including a mail weighing means, an alphanumerical keyboard (5), a direct access bar code thermal transfer printer, a magnetic and IC card reader/writer (6), a liquid crystal display (8, 10) and a double-station thermal and dot matrix printer (7).