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READABILITY REQUIREMENT [1 record]

Record 1 2014-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postal Service Operation
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Readability requirements ensure that Canada Post’s automated equipment can find and read the address on each ... mail items.

OBS

These requirements include the location and printing of addresses and postage, quiet zones and paper quality (such as opacity, luminescence, reflectance, coating).

OBS

readability requirement: term usually used in the plural.

OBS

readability requirement: term used at Canada Post.

Key term(s)
  • readability requirements

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation postale
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

[Les] exigences en matière de lisibilité [permettent d'assurer] que l'équipement automatisé de Postes Canada peut trouver et lire l'adresse sur chacun [des] articles de courrier.

OBS

Ces exigences comprennent l'emplacement et l'impression des adresses et de l'affranchissement, les zones margées et la qualité du papier (comme l'opacité, la luminescence, la réflectance et le couchage).

OBS

exigence en matière de lisibilité : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

exigence en matière de lisibilité : terme en usage à Postes Canada.

Key term(s)
  • exigences en matière de lisibilité

Spanish

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