Archive for April, 2008
How To Print MICR Checks
Posted by Daryl in Design How-To on April 27, 2008
Well, first off you’re going to need a MICR printer. If you don’t know what MICR is (say mick-ur), it’s Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. This stuff pre-dates high speed optical scanners, and in some ways is still more accurate.
There are a lot of things to remember when you’re setting up to print cheques, even before JetForm gets involved, so let’s run through some of them.
I’ll mention right now that you should completely read this entire article before attempting anything at all. There are choices you will need to make and things you need to know, and it can’t all be sequential. So please read the whole thing before making decisions about how you will proceed.