magnetic code for checks

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 04:13P Thu Sep 15 2005, Dennis Malen wrote:

> This question has been asked before.
> 
> Does anyone have code that can be used in filePro that can create the 
> magnetic fonts on the bottom of a check?
> 
> I can't seem to get a hold of Jim Asman.

You need a PCL MICR font and perhaps magnetic toner.

You'll have to find the specs for positioning of the MICR printing,
character spacing and character size.

The font will have just 14 chars I think, 0-9 plus the 4 special MICR
characters. Those 4 will be arbitrarily mapped to alpha, typically A-D.

For my checks, I turned the MICR data into a single .BMP and converted
that to PCL with MKPCL. I preprint the MICR data with magnetic toner.
Doing it that way, I CANNOT include the check # in the MICR data.


Jim 
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