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POSTAL SERVICES - MAIL ITEM PROCESSING - OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR PROCESSING LETTERS

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Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-2002

Publisher

National Standards Authority of Ireland

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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Terms and definitions
3 Symbols and abbreviations
4 Guidelines
  4.1 Address zone background attributes
      4.1.1 Background colour
      4.1.2 Background noise
  4.2 Address block attributes
      4.2.1 Address block size
      4.2.2 Clear zone
      4.2.3 Address block skew
      4.2.4 Line spacing
      4.2.5 Bar codes
      4.2.6 Characters per line
  4.3 Character attributes
      4.3.1 Fonts
      4.3.2 Stroke thickness
      4.3.3 Type size
      4.3.4 Character spacing
      4.3.5 Word spacing
      4.3.6 Character sets
      4.3.7 Colour
      4.3.8 Underline
      4.3.9 Print quality
      4.3.10 Print contrast ratio (PCR) of address
             character vs. background
5 Salience of attributes
  5.1 General
  5.2 Address zone background attributes
  5.3 Address block attributes
  5.4 Character attributes
Bibliography

Covers optical characteristics for processing letters and gives guidelines on the values of these attributes that will assure a high level of address readability.

DocumentType	Standard
Pages	24
PublisherName	National Standards Authority of Ireland
Status	Current

Standards	Relationship
UNI EN 13619 : 2003	Identical
UNE-EN 13619:2003	Identical
EN 13619:2002	Identical
DIN EN 13619:2003-04	Identical
BS EN 13619:2002	Identical