[GNC] check printing

[John Ralls]

20 or so years ago I had a small company and used check-printing software to make the checks. I used generic pre-printed forms and the software included the MICR font and printed the routing id and account number in the appropriate place at the bottom. Back then the bank sent the completed checks back with the statements and every once in a while there'd be a strip of paper taped to the bottom of the check with the MICR line repeated. I guess that read failures were common enough that they had a procedure and probably a machine where a human would read and retype the MICR line to make and attach that strip when the regular read failed.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 5, 2024, at 8:19 AM, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> While things may have changed, many years ago when I worked in the bank,
> the info at the bottom of the check was printed with a special ink (I think
> they called it a magnetic ink) so that the routing and account numbers
> could be scanned by a computer.  The rest of the check is regular printing.
> 
> Moreover, I suspect that the banks don't like people being able to print an
> entire check, as a small tweat of an account number might pull the money
> from the wrong account.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 5:08 AM Andrea Bryant <andreabryant at swbell.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if you need to use a pre-printed check or can you use
>> blank check stock and have the routing and account numbers printed out
>> by GnuCash.
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