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DIN EN 13619:2003-04

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

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English, German

Published date

01-01-2003

€99.44
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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 Underlining
      4.3.9 Print quality
      4.3.10 Print contrast ratio (PCR) of address
             characters 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

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

DocumentType
Standard
Pages
23
PublisherName
German Institute for Standardisation (Deutsches Institut für Normung)
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
EN 13619:2002 Identical
BS EN 13619:2002 Identical
SN EN 13619 : 2003 Identical
NF EN 13619 : 2003 Identical
UNI EN 13619 : 2003 Identical
UNE-EN 13619:2003 Identical
NEN EN 13619 : 2002 Identical
NBN EN 13619 : 2003 Identical
I.S. EN 13619:2002 Identical

ISO 2471:2008 Paper and board — Determination of opacity (paper backing) — Diffuse reflectance method
ISO 3883:1977 Office machines — Line and character capacity of address masters
ISO 4882:1979 Office machines and data processing equipment Line spacings and character spacings
ISO 1831:1980 Printing specifications for optical character recognition
ISO 269:1985 Correspondence envelopes Designation and sizes
ISO 11180:1993 Postal addressing
ISO 2469:2014 Paper, board and pulps — Measurement of diffuse radiance factor (diffuse reflectance factor)
ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 Information technology Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane
ISO 5138-3:1981 Office machines Vocabulary Part 3: Addressing machines

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