Re: Printing Personal Checks

de eschuylerTAKE 05/04/2006 08:26

Buckbeak <Buckbeak@dodgeit.com> wrote:
>
>> banking fees associated with pre-printed checks. Upon receipt, Qchex
>> are printed out on the recipient's desktop printer including all
>
>I thought the OCR characters at the bottom of checks had to be printed
>with special magnetic ink? It's called Magnetic Ink Character
>Recognition (MICR).
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICR
>

From http://www.advancemeants.com/draft/techsupp.htm:

Most banks now use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to read the MICR
font line on checks and regular laser toner is somewhat magnetic, but to be
on the safe side you should use MICR toner if your checks are being
rejected.

Eric