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Pitney Bowes Relay 5000 Folder Inserter

The Relay® 5000 inserting system is designed on a fast, reliable folding and inserting platform that helps ensure that the right contents get into the right envelope.

Improve productivity without risking precision.
Mail continues to be critical to the success of your company, from sending monthly bills to existing customers to building your business via direct mail. Achieving accuracy, security and speed isn’t merely important. It’s necessary. Until now, it’s been difficult to identify an ideal solution that can keep your mailing process precise and accurate.

Keep your mail moving with outstanding flexibility and efficiency.
The Relay 5000 inserter enables fast, consistent production of both simple and complex jobs. The proven reliable chassis uses the same straight paper path design found on our top of the line inserters. The Relay 5000 also gives you the flexibility to handle letters or flats, without any manual changeover. That saves you time and effort.

The Relay® 5000 does the work…
so you don’t have to. Set and start your mail runs in seconds with the intuitive user interface. With the ability to program your jobs with real names — not just numbers — you can switch settings such as form letters to flats or single page letters to variable page bills with a simple press of a button. The simple-to-follow onscreen user guides walk you through the loading of paper, inserts, and envelopes. With guesswork eliminated, the Relay 5000 is easy enough to use for even casual operators.

• Finish up to 4,000 envelopes per hour.
  Process monthly volumes up to 62,500 finished envelopes.
  Multiple output options to suit your workflow.
  Optional ergonomic height-adjustable table.

Your production is only as good as the accuracy it provides.
Information privacy, marketing campaigns, incoming revenue, and customer retention, all rely on superior mail accuracy when a customer opens it. The Relay 5000 includes flexible barcode scanning options such as OMR, 1D and 2D. This technology lets you accurately assemble your variable page mail, thus eliminating the need to manually sort documents by page count.

File control (file-based processing)
The Relay® 5000 goes beyond barcode scanning. Now, Pitney Bowes offers our world-class file-based processing capabilities in a mid-volume inserting system. File-based processing checks and cross-checks every page in your mailing. This gives you total visibility to each mail piece and helps prove that you’ve safeguarded the private information that your customers entrust you with.

Relay hub from the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud
The Relay hub leverages the simplicity and speed of SaaS to help you add security to your mail and workflow, without interrupting your current systems. The Relay hub is a powerful, simple, secure cloud solution that works with your existing print streams to add scan codes to existing documents. It also helps you transition documents to email when you’re ready to send. For customers wanting more digital communication options, the Relay hub can seamlessly shift print streams used for physical mail and adapt it to digital channels. This includes email sending and archiving.

• Technical Specifications

  • Throughput: 4,000 per hour
  • Montly capacity: 62,500
  • Maximum number of feeders: 7 (4 High-capacity Sheet Feeders + 3 Sheet/Insert feeders)
  • Fold Options: C, Z, Half, Double, No Fold
  • Integrity options: OMR, 1D, 2D, exit scanning, file-based processing
  • Programmable jobs: 24
  • Tower sheet trays
  • Capacity per feeder: 350 sheets
  • Paper sizes: Minimum 5” (127 mm) width x 5.31” (135 mm) length; Maximum 9.84” (250 mm) width x 14” (356 mm) length
  • Paper weights: Minimum 16 lb (60 gsm) to 44 lb (175 gsm)
  • High-capacity sheet feeder (optional - up to 2 per base system)
  • Capacity per feeder: 2000 sheets (1000 per feeder tray)
  • Paper sizes: Minimum 7.99” (203 mm) width x 9.15” (232 mm) length; Maximum 8.5” (216 mm) width x 11.69” (297 mm) length
  • Paper weights: Minimum 20 lb (75 gsm) to 24 lb (90 gsm)
  • Insert feeder
  • Capacity: 350 inserts
  • Media sizes: Minimum 2.83” (72 mm) height x 5” (127 mm) length; Maximum 6” (153 mm) height x 9.84” (250 mm) length
  • Thickness, compressed: Minimum 0.003” (0.076mm) to maximum 0.1” (2.54 mm)
  • Envelope feeder
  • Capacity: 250 Letter (100 Flat)
  • Letter-sized: Minimum 3.5” (89 mm) height x 6.37” (162 mm) length; Maximum 6.5” (165 mm) height x 10.5” (266 mm) length
  • Flat-sized: Minimum 6.37” (162 mm) height x 6.5” (165 mm) length; Maximum 10.5” (266 mm) height x 13” (330 mm) length
  • Envelope weights: Letter: Minimum 18 lb (70 gsm) to maximum 24 lb (90 gsm); Flats: Minimum 20 lb (80 gsm) to maximum 24 lb (90 gsm)
  • Physical dimensions (includes tower feeder trays)
  • Length: 60.5” base, 89.5” overall length (base unit fits on 60” table)
  • Depth: 22.8"
  • Height: 31"
  • Weight: 326.5 lbs
  • Accessory Physical specifications
  • High capacity sheet feeder
  • Height: 31"
  • Table-length requirement: 30"
  • Installed Length: 49"
  • Exit transport
  • Height: 16"
  • Table-length requirement: 18"
  • Installed length: 18"
  • Flats sealer
  • Height: 31"
  • Table-length requirement: 12"
  • Installed length: 12"
  • Horizontal belt stacker
  • Height: 18"
  • Table-length requirement: N/A
  • Installed length (floor): 22"
  • Vertical power stacker
  • Height: 31"
  • Table_length requirement: N/A
  • Installed length: 14"

Additional Information

Pitney Bowes Relay 5000 Brochure