Mailing machine
An addressing machine is an office machine that automatically prints recurring forms or addresses , for example for mailing or wage payment, which are available as matrices . Matrices are either zinc plates that are embossed on a machine with an adjustable letter and number device, or fibrous plates labeled with machine writing or machine set. They were developed at the end of the 19th century and will gradually be replaced by digital technology in the 21st century .
Description of the procedure
The stencils are advanced through slides and the paper on the ribbon is pressed by the pressure arm. With other types of construction, the panels are colored with cushions or printed with transcrit printing. Paper or die feed can be regulated by tabs on the die so that certain dies are printed several times or not at all. By changing the pressure pad, only individual parts of the die can be made to be imprinted. The drive is electric, only inserting and removing the die stack and the paper (envelopes and so on) is done by hand. The most famous brands are: Adrema and Addressograph. Fully automatic machines do a hundred times as much as handwritten addressing.
history
Julius Goldschmidt (born September 26, 1884 in Eldagsen , † February 11, 1936 in exile in Zurich ), the brother of the banker Jakob Goldschmidt , was the German-Jewish inventor of the mechanical ADREMA system for addressing bulk letters and the ADREMA mailing machine . On April 22, 1913, he founded Adrema-Maschinenbaugesellschaft GmbH in Berlin in what would later become the district of Moabit . Then Goldschmidt was the addressing machine manufacturer of Adrema-Werke in Berlin. Foreign missions were established after 1918. This is how Adrema AG was founded in Zurich in 1930. This solid basis enabled Goldschmidt to get the company through the difficult times of the economic crisis in 1932. In 1935, as a Jew in Germany, he was forced to sell his company to Mercedes Büromaschinen-Werke AG in Zella-Mehlis , Thuringia , whose majority of shares had been with the US typewriter manufacturer Underwood-Elliott-Fischer since 1931 . Adrema was Aryanized and Goldschmidt emigrated to Switzerland.
Since the production of the individual matrices is expensive, correcting them in the event of a change of address is quite time-consuming and the storage of 10,000 addresses requires a larger special cabinet, they have now been replaced by information technology practically everywhere .
literature
- Path of a system - 50 years of Adrema 1913 - 1963. From addressing to data technology. Ed .: Adrema Werke GmbH Berlin. Frankfurt / Main 1963.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Share (1977–2006) of the Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation from the USA ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at effektenwelt (accessed March 13, 2009)
- ^ Advertisement of the Adrema Society in the Vossische Zeitung : Adrema does not only address. April 2, 1929.
- ↑ It all started with an idea: Adrema has revolutionized the office world , berliner-woche.de from January 28, 2018
- ↑ The history of the German typewriter factories , Leonhard Dingwerth: Volume 1: Large and medium-sized manufacturers (2017), p. 50
