Integrated Printing of Cheques
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Finally with the kids all snug in their beds... Anyone know of an SDK (suitable for .Net) for the printing of Cheques (Checks). I would like to integrate printing of checks in an application that I am developing. Alternately, I suppose, it is probable fairly straight forward priting them with the PrintDocument but does anyone know the font type used to print on the bottom portion of the cheques and where I might be able to download it? Also is there some constraints on how exactly the cheques are printed as far as the location of fields? Is there some type of guide available that might answer these quesions? Merry Christmas, David
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Finally with the kids all snug in their beds... Anyone know of an SDK (suitable for .Net) for the printing of Cheques (Checks). I would like to integrate printing of checks in an application that I am developing. Alternately, I suppose, it is probable fairly straight forward priting them with the PrintDocument but does anyone know the font type used to print on the bottom portion of the cheques and where I might be able to download it? Also is there some constraints on how exactly the cheques are printed as far as the location of fields? Is there some type of guide available that might answer these quesions? Merry Christmas, David
Routing and account information printed on the bottom left of checks uses MICR (magnetic ink character recognition). You need special ink or toner in order to print MICR, along with the font itself. A lot of applications I've seen use checks where the MICR stuff is preprinted. Google[^] has a lot of stuff on MICR, except on how to pronounce the acronym. We're adding MICR support to a product where I work, and it's evenly divided between pronouncing it micker and mike-r.
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Routing and account information printed on the bottom left of checks uses MICR (magnetic ink character recognition). You need special ink or toner in order to print MICR, along with the font itself. A lot of applications I've seen use checks where the MICR stuff is preprinted. Google[^] has a lot of stuff on MICR, except on how to pronounce the acronym. We're adding MICR support to a product where I work, and it's evenly divided between pronouncing it micker and mike-r.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote: mike-r. for me, for the last 25 yrs Regardz Colin J Davies Attention: It's finally arrived, The worlds first DSP.
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Routing and account information printed on the bottom left of checks uses MICR (magnetic ink character recognition). You need special ink or toner in order to print MICR, along with the font itself. A lot of applications I've seen use checks where the MICR stuff is preprinted. Google[^] has a lot of stuff on MICR, except on how to pronounce the acronym. We're adding MICR support to a product where I work, and it's evenly divided between pronouncing it micker and mike-r.
Software Zen:
delete this;Why not am I see are? ;) -- Weiter, weiter, ins verderben. Wir müssen leben bis wir sterben. I blog too now[^]
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Routing and account information printed on the bottom left of checks uses MICR (magnetic ink character recognition). You need special ink or toner in order to print MICR, along with the font itself. A lot of applications I've seen use checks where the MICR stuff is preprinted. Google[^] has a lot of stuff on MICR, except on how to pronounce the acronym. We're adding MICR support to a product where I work, and it's evenly divided between pronouncing it micker and mike-r.
Software Zen:
delete this;Interesting. I wrote banking software for years and always heard "mike-er" Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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Routing and account information printed on the bottom left of checks uses MICR (magnetic ink character recognition). You need special ink or toner in order to print MICR, along with the font itself. A lot of applications I've seen use checks where the MICR stuff is preprinted. Google[^] has a lot of stuff on MICR, except on how to pronounce the acronym. We're adding MICR support to a product where I work, and it's evenly divided between pronouncing it micker and mike-r.
Software Zen:
delete this;Thank you for taking the time to respond. I will lookup MICR and see what I can dig up. One question though. VersaChecks (as best as I can tell looking at the package) appear to use a watermarked image page) of cheques and all of the customer bank info is used to construct the cheques including the MICR. There was no mention on the package about magnetic ink or other special requirements. Admittedly I did not read the package fine print too closely. I will the next time I am in my local dealers. Can anyone clarify if in fact special magnetic ink is required to print the cheques? Thanks, David
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Thank you for taking the time to respond. I will lookup MICR and see what I can dig up. One question though. VersaChecks (as best as I can tell looking at the package) appear to use a watermarked image page) of cheques and all of the customer bank info is used to construct the cheques including the MICR. There was no mention on the package about magnetic ink or other special requirements. Admittedly I did not read the package fine print too closely. I will the next time I am in my local dealers. Can anyone clarify if in fact special magnetic ink is required to print the cheques? Thanks, David
Orcrist wrote: Can anyone clarify if in fact special magnetic ink is required to print the cheques? you can find the fine print, which basically says call your bank and ask. What about MICR? The American Bankers Association (ABA) has set the standards for the shape and size of the special characters that are printed at the bottom of your checks. These encode check routing and other information that allows your check to be read and processed by the automatic equipment throughout the banking system. It is this equipment and its high-speed readers that let the banking system process millions of checks each day. These special characters are called MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) characters because they were originally designed to be printed in a special magnetic ink and read using magnetic sensors in the banks' machinery. However, almost all banks (more than 90%) now use optical sensors (OCR -Optical Character Recognition) to read your checks. This means that the banks' equipment can read the MICR characters as long as they are printed clearly and accurately, with magnetic or standard ink or toner. It is also important to note that the banks have a manual system in place to insure that all checks get processed whether they are machine read or not. Even a check printed in magnetic ink sometimes can not be read (as much as 10% of the time). So you can be assured that all of your checks will be processed through the banking system no matter how you print them as long as the MICR characters meet the standard size and shape and are placed in the proper position on the check. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)