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Jan 15, 2010 12:45
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Italian term

codice poligrafico

Italian to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general)
This comes from the description of fields on an online data form to be input into a database, and specifically relates to personal and identification information.

Codice poligrafico del documento.
La sua valorizzazione è prevista solo per la tipologia di documento Patente
Proposed translations (English)
2 print(ing) code
2 printer's code

Discussion

James Twist Jan 15, 2010:
Ah ecco, aggiudicati 4 punti!
Judith McLean (asker) Jan 15, 2010:
Ho scoperto che viene dal'istituto Poligrafico dello stato - è il codice assignato al document
James Twist Jan 15, 2010:
A codice poligrafico is usually a cryptographic device which translates letters and ideograms into numbers. However I'm struggling to connect this sense of codice poligrafico to your text in Italian.

Proposed translations

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print(ing) code

Peer comment(s):

neutral Lorraine Buckley (X) : afraid that link doesn't work, Yasutomo
1 day 9 hrs
The link above works. I checked. Please try again, and if it doesn't, please try this: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine And click the English version.
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1 day 9 hrs

printer's code

Little more than a guess, but it could be that these documents, being valid proof of i.d., have an anti-forging progressive code or numbering system which is assigned at the printing stage.
The phrase appears to be used relative to certain types of software (see web ref)
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