DIN EN 13619:2003-04
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POSTAL SERVICES - MAIL ITEM PROCESSING - OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR PROCESSING LETTERS
Hardcopy , PDF
English, German
01-01-2003
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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
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| Pages |
23
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| PublisherName |
German Institute for Standardisation (Deutsches Institut für Normung)
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| Status |
Current
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| 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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