Hello fellow-listers, It is most definitely possible to print-out bank cheques using the Braillenote family of units, (excluding the PK), and though not all printers handle cheques well, however, a number of printer on the market will print them very accurately. The trouble is that many printers do not easily handle small pieces of paper, and will not hold them straight while going through the printer. I first printed cheques way back in the early 80's and have since written hundreds of cheques, all in Braille, and have used a succession of printers. In the first place I used an electronic typewriter, then progressed to a small and inexpensive Brothers, and have since used two models of Canon, an Epsom, and am at present using 2 models of HP printers, an inkjet and a lazerjet. The fact that the Braillenote family offers landscape printing as an option will, I feel, mean that many other printers may be added to the suitability list. This system is where you feed the cheque end, into the printer but the writing appears correctly positioned in lines running from end to end of the cheque, not across the width. Don't ask me how it does it. Though it was necessary to have a sighted person to assist with the first cheque, which invariably comes out inaccurately, from this, corrections can be made. What one now has is a cheque template. When you need to make out a new cheque, bring it into the wordprocessor, and carefully erase your previous entry and replace it with the new; making sure that it commences at the same column and on the same line as the original. No special program is needed, nor is a specially designed printer demanded. I appreciate that for many, cheques may appear last century, to quote a recent contributor, but, most of my customers pay by cheque, and, living in a rural area as I do, cheques are often the preferred medium, which avoids having large amounts of cash on the premises. If I can be of any help to any individual facing this problem, I will of course be happy to assist. However, unfortunately, cheques are far from standard, even within a country, and differ widely internationally, and printer alignment is notoriously individual, even within the same make and model. Don Cooper.
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