ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 1004-1 First edition 2013-06-01 Information processing Magnetic ink character recognition - Part 1: Print specifications for E13B Traitement de I'information - Reconnaissance des caracteres a encre magnétique- Partie 1: Specifications d'impression E13B Reference number ISO 1004-1:2013(E) ISO CopyrihtInternational Organization for Standardization @IS02013 ted without license from IHS NotforF IS0 1004-1:2013(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @ISO2013 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax +41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ IS0 2013 - All rights reserved 30975001, User=bao, zhou No reproductic networking permited without license from IHS IS0 1004-1:2013(E) Contents Page Foreword ..V Introduction.. ...vi 1 Scope. 2 Character configuration 2.1 Designation .1 2.2 Dimensions 2 3 Character spacing and alignment 3.1 Spacing 2 3.2 Alignment. 2 Character skew. ..2 5 Character tolerances ..3 5.1 Dimensions. .3 5.2 Average edge definition .3 5.3 Average edge tolerance. .3 5.4 Edge irregularity tolerance 5.5 Extraneous ink attached ..12 5.6 Minimum width of horizontal bars ..13 6 Voids ..13 6.1 Maximum allowable single voids 6.2 Maximum allowable combined voids .13 7 Uniformity of ink distribution ..13 8 Extraneous ink. ..15 8.1 Magnetic. ..15 8.2 Nonmagnetic. .15 8.3 Extraneous ink front ..17 8.4 Extraneous magnetic ink back 17 9 Debossment ..17 10 Embossment. ..17 11 Signal level ..18 11.1 Definition of signal level ..18 11.2 Nominal signal level ..18 11.3 Relative signal level. .18 12 Paper. ..19 13 Format. ..19 13.1 Reference edges .19 13.2 Clear band (MICR) 33 13.3 Optical clear band 33 14 Optical clear band background .34 14.1 General 34 14.2 Background reflectance. 34 14.3 Print contrast signal (PCS) Magnetic ink printed character 34 14.4 Print contrast signal (PCS) - Within the background. .34 15 Permanence of MICR printing ..34 15.1 Permanence specification ..34 Annex A (informative) Debossment of E-13B font. ..35 Annex B (informative) MICR Document Sampling References .36 Copyrintntematonala rights reserved iii ed without license from IHS