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FRAPPE AUTOMATIQUE [5 records]

Record 1 2006-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
  • Lithography, Offset Printing and Collotype
DEF

A duplicator used for reprography based on the offset principle.

OBS

Very low-cost master plates on a paper, plastic, or metal substrate are used. They may be prepared by various methods: writing, typing, electrophotography, electrofax, photographic means, diffusion transfer, and photomechanical means.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
  • Lithographie, offset et phototypie
DEF

Machine offset simplifiée pour le bureau.

OBS

Les clichés sont en carton, plastique ou métal, et s’établissent par écriture, frappe directe, ou report automatique. Pour ces reports, on utilise des copieurs électrostatiques, des matériels de transfert par contact ou des appareils de projection optique, ou des bancs de reproduction.

Spanish

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Record 3 1986-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
CONT

If it looks like a typewriter, has a one line display or less, does not have external storage and is capable of only the simplest of editing functions, it is an electronic typewriter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
CONT

Pourvues d’un écran-ligne, ces machines ont la faculté de retenir la ligne en cours de frappe sans l'imprimer, jusqu'à son achèvement marqué par un retour ligne automatique ou volontaire qui provoque alors l'impression. Tant que l'impression n’ a pas eu lieu, l'opératrice peut modifier à sa guise le contenu de la ligne visible à l'écran.

Spanish

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Record 4 1984-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Automation
DEF

Mode in which keystrokes are memorized for later use.

OBS

Terminology of Sony (word processing). Information given by Sony Canada (Ottawa).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureautique
OBS

Terme proposé. Analogie : Mode frappe comptable. (Multiplus II. Manuel de référence de AES Data Inc., p. M7).

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Typesetting and Imagesetting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Composition (Imprimerie)

Spanish

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