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How To Print MICR Checks
Posted by Daryl in Design How-To on April 27th, 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Central and the HP 1022n
I’ve gotten a few requests lately for information on using these (and other) printers with Central. People try to send forms to them, but they don’t print. Instead they see garbage or nothing at all.
JetForm/Accelio/Adobe Central is as fast to print as it is because it does not send a completed and rendered raster to the printer. All that the printer gets is, in the case of HP’s, PCL. It uses the smarts built into the printer itself to RIP the code to pixels for printing. As a result, the files sent down the line are much, much smaller than any spool you’ll ever see come from a Windows (for example) application.