With a capacity in excess of 175 million pieces of mail per year, expanding every year, AKA Direct is the largest commercial mailing service facility in the Pacific Northwest.

Success in the mailing services business means meeting or beating critical and sometimes what seem to be unrealistic deadlines. We at AKA Direct take pride in being able to help our clients meet these deadlines by putting our high-speed automation equipment and experienced production staff and technicians to work for you.

AKA Direct offers automated high speed bursting, folding, ink jet addressing, labeling, envelope inserting, polly bagging, shrink wrapping, stamp affixing, drilling and tabbing services. Below is a list of the quality equipment that AKA Direct has working under its roof.

AUTOMATIC ADDRESSING
Video Jet SR-50 Ink Jet Graphics Imaging System
Video Jet Jetstream II High Speed Ink Jet System
Video Jet 4000 High Speed Ink Jet Imaging System (2 Systems)
Cheshire High Speed Addressing System (4 Systems)
Cheshire Mod Addressing System
Dispensamatic Semi-Automatic Pressure Sensitive Label Systems

Total Production capacity exceeds 3 million pieces of mail per week.

ENVELOPE INSERTING
Phillipsburg Mastermailers - 2 ea. (up to 9" x 12" envelopes, up to 7 inserts)
Pitney Bowes Jumbo Inserter (up to 9" x 12" envelopes, up to 6 inserts)
Phillipsburg Imperial (up to 6" x 9" envelopes, up to 6 inserts)
Phillipsburg Royale (up to 6" x 9" envelopes, up to 8 inserts)
Acuta: throughput capacity in excess of 2 million pieces per week.

All systems handle 6-8 pieces into an envelope.

BINDERY & FINISHING
MBO bindery quality folder with 2 right angle units
Inline gluing and trimming
Pro-Fold Pennant In-Line Tabbing System
Snyder Tabletop Tabbing System
Tab Bursting
Slitting System
O & M 2 Par Folding System
Fastek Folding System
Watkiss Automatic Collator
Pacemaker Polly Bag Sealing System
Sergeant Shrink-wrapping System
Challenge 3-Hole Drill Press
Kirk-Rudy Ramp Counter Stacker
EAM Mosca Strapping Systems (6)

To keep this equipment in tip top shape so that there is never a breakdown to interfere with a client's critical deadline, AKA Direct has trained technicians in-house 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during peak seasonal workloads. In addition to the array of high quality equipment, more importantly, AKA Direct employs a very competent staff who know mailing like the back of their hand. The mailing production staff work very closely with AKA Direct's MIS Department to ensure that the latest and greatest mail preparation processing is being utilized. Proper list processing provides clients with the best postage discounts available, and jobs are processes at the highest possible production rate.

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