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USER'S GUIDE
Appendix D
HANDWRITING AND FORM
DESIGN RULES
Where less than optimal reading results are obtained with the handprinting
recognition of the IRISPen Executive, it may be useful to adapt your writing style
and optimize your forms to maximize your productivity. A few simple rules can
teach you why substitutions occur and how to avoid them.
THE WRITING IS IN THE PEN
The first and most important rule is that you should use a sufficiently thick
ballpoint. Thin ballpoints do not provide acceptable images: scanning always im-
plies some degrading of the image and zones which aren’t sufficiently dark may
not be detected. Black pens yield better results than blue pens.
Do not use pencils: the grey images they produce are not always contrasted
enough to be picked up by the pen scanner!