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Tri-Linear Array

The sensor in a flatbed scanner, or digital scanning back, which is made up of three rows of pixels with a red filter covering one row, a green filter covering the second row and a blue filter covering the third row.

Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ANSI/ASTM E3235-21 Standard Practice for Latent Print Evidence Imaging Resolution. ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, 2021. Source link
Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. A copy of the complete standard may be purchased from ASTM International, https://www.astm.org