Back in the day, I worked at Xerox. We had special MICR toner that worked with some of our printers. Once I changed banks and they printed a stater set of personalized checks complete with the MICR
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 5, 2024, at 2:50 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > 20 or so years ago I had a small company and used check-printing software to > make the checks. I used generic pre-printed forms and the software included > the MICR font and printed the routing id and account number in the > appropriate place at the bottom. Back then the bank sent the completed checks > back with the statements and every once in a while there'd be a strip of > paper taped to the bottom of the check with the MICR line repeated. I guess > that read failures were common enough that they had a procedure and probably > a machine where a human would read and retype the MICR line to make and > attach that strip when the regular read failed. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Apr 5, 2024, at 8:19 AM, R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> While things may have changed, many years ago when I worked in the bank, >> the info at the bottom of the check was printed with a special ink (I think >> they called it a magnetic ink) so that the routing and account numbers >> could be scanned by a computer. The rest of the check is regular printing. >> >> Moreover, I suspect that the banks don't like people being able to print an >> entire check, as a small tweat of an account number might pull the money >> from the wrong account. >> >> >>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 5:08 AM Andrea Bryant <andreabry...@swbell.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I was wondering if you need to use a pre-printed check or can you use >>> blank check stock and have the routing and account numbers printed out >>> by GnuCash. >>> -- >>> */Andrea Bryant/* >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >> >> >> -- >> _________________________________ >> Richard Losey >> rlo...@gmail.com >> Micah 6:8 >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
