Essay About Best Way And Universal Product Code

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Mary Burton
14April2005
Input Alternatives
a. The best way to input printed material would be using a scanner and OCR software.
Although OCR software can misinterpret words if not printed well.
b. Voice input would be the best but it is far from perfected yet.
Almost same as above must be spoken clearly to interpret.
c. MICR (magnetic ink character recognition)
Its what banks use for this and it seems to work well.
d. Universal Product Code (UPC) symbol by means of barcode scanner.
It is seen in almost every modern store today. Works great.
e. Again a scanner, but business use electronic copies to manipulate the data
rather than just to store data and compute results
Output Devices
a. Liquid Crystal Display because of size and weight.
They are quickly becoming the NORM for everything
b. Printer (High Volume Page)
I know when I signed for my house it took hundreds of pages imagine how many
pages a mortgage company can print out in a day.
c. Plotter
Plotters supposedly create better images but todays photo printers are pretty good
d. A letter quality printer.
Although they say draft quality