• 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

    Publisher:  German Institute for Standardisation (Deutsches Institut für Normung)

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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

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

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    Document Type Standard
    Publisher German Institute for Standardisation (Deutsches Institut für Normung)
    Status Current

    Standards Referencing This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    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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