Check Printing Feature

[Greg Woods]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 22:06, hamkins@alumni.caltech.edu wrote:
> Greg Woods writes:
> >Without the magnetic ink, the machines at the bank can't
> >scan the routing info and they won't take the check.
> 
> Did you really try it and the checks were refused?  

Yes. I actually used the checks successfully for a while, then I got a
call from my credit union telling me that they wouldn't take the checks
any more, because they were having to hand-enter them. 

What someone who wants to do this should do is take a sample check to
the bank and ask them to test it on their scanner.

--Greg