Check Printing Feature

Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net> ruhl@4dv.net
27 Sep 2002 12:35:01 -0600


Greg Woods <greg@gregandeva.net> writes:
> 
> Also, be aware that simply printing the routing information is not
> good enough.  You have to be using a printer with special magnetic
> ink.  I got burned by this after I had already bought $100 worth of
> blank check forms for VersaCheck.  I then found out about the
> requirement for magnetic ink.  Without the magnetic ink, the
> machines at the bank can't scan the routing info and they won't take
> the check.

A believe that as long as it's a vlaid cheque, the bank _must_ accept
it.  The use of magnetic ink is a convenience, not a necessity.  Cue
the story of the fellow who cashed a junk-mail cheque...

-- 
Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
Be wary of strong drink; it makes you shoot tax collectors--and miss.
                                                   --Robert Heinlein