Next, you must educate your printer as to the importance of printing the dropout colors correctly, or you must find a printer that specializes in printing scannable forms. They do not understand the important functional use of color on a scannable form. If an unknowing press operator uses his black ink knife to mix the can of red dropout ink, your forms may not drop out successfully. In many cases, the contamination in the dropout ink will not be visible to the human eye. This gave us the best accuracy and speed.
People generally print characters that are taller than they are wide.
Not only is this small box size extremely difficult for the form user to fill out, it will lead to poor data accuracy rates and a huge increase in the percentage of human verified characters. Improving Forms Effectiveness Even though the form itself is just a tool for data collection, to the customer, the form represents the corporation. It is usually the first contact with the customer and will go a long way in determining their opinion of the corporation. The key to effective forms design is assigning the right amount of effort and attention to forms analysis as early in the system development as possible. In data extraction alone, the forms design factor could make a 50 percent improvement, resulting in a reduction of processors required to do this task.