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NEAR LETTER QUALITY [2 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2011-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
23.07.02 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

print quality of text that is not as good as that of an office electric typewriter, but good enough for internal letters and bulk external mailings, and that is used to obtain higher printing speed than letter quality

OBS

near letter quality; NLQ: term, abbreviation and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-23:1994].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
23.07.02 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

qualité d'impression inférieure à celle d'une machine à écrire électrique, mais suffisante pour le courrier interne et le publipostage, et qui permet d'obtenir une vitesse d'impression supérieure à celle de la qualité courrier

OBS

qualité quasi-courrier : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-23:1994].

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Machinery
  • Computer Peripheral Equipment
  • Electronic Publishing
DEF

Print quality of text that is not as good as that of an office electric typewriter, but good enough for internal letters and bulk external mailings, and that is used to obtain higher printing speed than letter quality.

CONT

Hewlett-Packard has announced the Hp Point Jet color-graphics printer. It produces text and graphics with 180 X 180 dots-per-inch resolution and near-letter-quality text at 167 characters per second.

OBS

near letter quality; NLQ: term and abbreviation standardized by ISO and CSA.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanographie
  • Périphériques (Informatique)
  • Éditique
DEF

Qualité d'impression inférieure à celle d'une machine à écrire électrique mais suffisante pour le courrier interne et le publipostage, et qui permet d'obtenir une vitesse d'impression supérieure à celle de la qualité courrier.

CONT

La qualité d'impression est liée à la fois à la technique d'impression et, pour une même imprimante, à la vitesse d'impression. On distingue en gros trois qualités d'impression : la qualité ordinateur ou listage [...]; la qualité dite «pseudo-courrier» ou quasi-courrier (anglais : «NLQ = near-letter quality»); la qualité courrier ou correspondance [...]

OBS

qualité quasi-courrier : terme normalisé par l'ISO et la CSA.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Máquinas de oficina
  • Equipo periférico (Computadoras)
  • Publicación electrónica
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