An appendage protector for an article of protective gear is provided. In one embodiment, there is presented a monitor for displaying a source picture. These values, and an integer representing the number of bytes in a burst-accessed word, may be operated on to produce a word that may be used to identify valid bytes in the burst-accessed word. An imagetext bitmap is loaded before applying a logical AND to the one-bit mask and the bitmap to generate a reduced ink image or text character. The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding diagnostic device, a corresponding diagnostic system, as well as a computer program is also described.